“The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. Huffman said the officer, Mark Hanneman, was in a difficult position. It said that the initial search warrants “were being executed for a homicide suspect who was apparently located” at the building where the shooting took place.įrey said the video “raises about as many questions as it does answers” and said the city was pursuing answers “as quickly as possible and in transparent fashion” through investigations including one by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. But a search warrant filed by state agents investigating the shooting was filed. The search warrants that led the SWAT team to enter the apartment early Wednesday were still not public as of Friday morning. Paul Police Department said he could not comment because the homicide investigation is ongoing. She said it isn’t clear how or whether Locke is connected to the homicide investigation, which she said is under the control of St. Interim Chief Amelia Huffman said during a news conference after the video was released that Locke isn’t named in the warrants.
Locke did what many of us might do in the same confusing circumstances, he reached for a legal means of self-defense while he sought to understand what was happening,” said Rob Doar, a spokesman for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. Levy Armstrong, whom Mayor Jacob Frey appointed last year as co-chair on a community safety work group, said Locke’s family told her Locke was a licensed gun owner with a concealed carry permit, that he didn’t live in the apartment, that police had not been looking for him and that he wasn’t one of three suspects named in the warrant.Ī gun-rights group highlighted the timing of the raid, saying it appeared from the video that Locke had been awakened by a confusing array of commands from multiple officers pointing lights and guns at him. Read more: The Derek Chauvin Verdict Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Those Who Found No Justice Ellison’s office led prosecutions of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s killing and of former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter in the shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Friday that he asked Ellison to help review the case for possible charges. The top of Locke’s head is barely visible. The city also released a still from the video showing Locke holding the gun, his trigger finger along the side of the barrel. Three shots are heard, and the video ends. As they enter, they repeatedly shout, “Police, search warrant!” They also shout “Hands!” and “Get on the ground!” The video shows an officer kick a sectional sofa, and Locke, who was wrapped in a blanket on the sofa, begins to move, holding a pistol.
It shows an officer using a key to unlock the door and enter, followed by at least four officers in uniform and protective vests, time-stamped at about 6:48 a.m. The body camera video released late Thursday showed the footage in slow motion and at regular speed. He said it was shocking that Minneapolis police had not learned from the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. “They didn’t even give him a chance,” Crump said. Read more: George Floyd’s Death and the Long History of Racism in MinneapolisĬivil rights attorney Ben Crump said during a Friday morning news conference that Locke’s family was “just flabbergasted at the fact that Amir was killed in this way” and disgusted at how the SWAT team raid was conducted. “Amir never had a chance to survive that encounter with police.” “The mother in me is furious and sick to my stomach,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a prominent civil rights attorney who confronted the city’s mayor and interim police chief late Thursday night after the video’s release.
Activists swiftly denounced the killing, noting that Locke wasn’t named in a search warrant.
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