MINNEAPOLIS — Family, friends and community members gathered Thursday in a north Minneapolis church where a funeral service celebrating the life of Amir Locke, fatally shot by police two weeks ago, began with songs of blessed reassurance before shifting to words of fury aimed at police.
"Amir was not guilty of being anything but being young and Black in America," the Rev. Al Sharpton declared in his eulogy as the 22-year-old Locke was being remembered during the 2-hour, 15-minute service at Shiloh Temple International Ministries on West Broadway.
Sharpton reached back five centuries to slavery's beginning in America and the nameless mass of Black humanity that was shipped to the continent.
