Protestors continued to take to the streets of Minneapolis Saturday following the death of Amir Locke, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning by a Minnesota Police SWAT team executing a no-knock search warrant.
Bodycam footage released by the city Thursday shows the SWAT team — who were carrying out a search warrant for a homicide suspect — quietly entering the apartment with a front door key and then yelling “Police, search warrant.”
Locke, a 22-year-old black man, is seen on the video sleeping under a blanket on the couch as police walked in; after police kicked the couch, Locke rolled over, revealing a gun in his vicinity. An officer — later identified as Officer Mark Hanneman — immediately opened fire, shooting Locke three times. In the bodycam footage, roughly seven seconds pass between when police entered the apartment and when Locke — who was not a suspect…
