In 2020, police reformers had many believing that Minneapolis was headed in the right direction.
After Black Lives Matter protests demanded accountability following the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by a white officer, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey proposed a series of reforms to address the unrest.
One of the major proposals was to also restrict the use of unannounced raids known as “no-knock warrants” — a controversial practice that allows police to enter a property without announcing their presence beforehand — at one point, there were more than 20,000 raids of this kind happening a year. Several prominent police-reform organizations, such as Campaign Zero, led by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, called for such changes because they believed it would prevent police from using excessive force.
At the time, Frey consistently told the…
