UPDATE APRIL 6, 2022:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in February. The 22-year-old Locke, who was Black, was staying on a couch in an apartment when authorities entered it without knocking as part of an investigation into a homicide. Locke was not named in the warrant. Authorities said he was shot seconds after he pointed a gun in the direction of officers. Locke’s family has questioned that. Body camera footage shows Locke holding a gun before he was shot. His death sparked protests and a reexamination of no-knock search warrants in Minneapolis and beyond.
FEBRUARY 3, 2022:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A civil rights attorney says relatives told her a man fatally shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant in a homicide investigation did not live in the apartment raided by the SWAT team. Authorities have released scant information about the man who was killed Wednesday morning (Feb. 2, 2022), including his identity. But Nekima Levy Armstrong said late Wednesday that the family told her the man was 24-year-old Amir Locke, that he didn’t live in the apartment, that police were not looking for him and that he wasn’t named in the warrants. Law enforcement and city authorities have not corroborated these details, and the search warrants are not publicly available Thursday. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading an investigation.
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