Amir Locke - report

2022 police killing in Minnesota

Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black American man, was fatally shot on February 2, 2022, by SWAT officer Mark Hanneman of the Minneapolis Police Department inside an apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where police were executing a no-knock search warrant in a homicide investigation. The officer-involved shooting was reviewed by the office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the office of Hennepin County attorney Michael Freeman, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Ellison and Freeman declined to file criminal charges against the officer who shot Locke in a report released on April 6, 2022.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Amir_Locke

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2022-04-06

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Amir Locke, 22, was killed by Minneapolis police during a no-knock warrant raid in February. Locke was not named in the warrant, but his 17-year-old cousin, Mekhi Camden Speed, was. Speed has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in Locke's killing.

2022-02-04