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Hundreds protest in Minneapolis after
police killing of Black man during ‘no-knock’ raid

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 2/6/2022 1:56:39 PM

Hundreds of people protested in the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota after police killed a 22-year-old Black man during a no-knock raid, with demonstrators demanding that the practice be banned. The loud but peaceful crowd chanted the name of Amir Locke on Saturday, three days after he was killed by police within ten seconds after they entered an apartment where he was sleeping on the couch. In body camera footage released by the office of Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, Mr Locke can be seen holding a gun, which his family say he had a legal permit for. The no-knock search warrant

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Police say he pointed a gun at them from underneath a blanket. Ben Crump has already been hired and will soon appear on the scene.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: skacmar 2/6/2022 2:10:13 PM (No. 1063672)
What's tragic is that Mr. Locke felt the need to sleep with a gun either under his blankets or in his hand. Was it because he was in a dangerous area or up to no good? As usual, the race baiters have immediately blamed the police for doing their jobs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: seamusm 2/6/2022 2:22:32 PM (No. 1063679)
The US Constitution bans searches and seizures without a warrant. 'Home is castle' anyone? These no-knock events have resulted in way too many catastrophes and feeding frenzies for the left.. End them!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Quigley 2/6/2022 2:23:37 PM (No. 1063681)
I certainly don’t blame the police for doing their jobs. But i do wonder why these situations continue to get set up. Why do this kind of thankless policing any more? Let the community activists deal with it. Can’t the people who stand up wanting to change everything take the lead and change it? Can’t they conduct these raids or handle the guy as they see fit but be responsible for failing to do so? The big mouths have no responsibility for what they visit on the community.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 2/6/2022 2:24:04 PM (No. 1063682)
If Ben Crump is involved, the truth will be the first casualty. Crump is a criminal lawyer.....by which I mean a criminal who is also a lawyer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TJ54 2/6/2022 2:31:47 PM (No. 1063687)
Maybe the police should tell them they are on their own and withdraw any protection from public officials
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Reply 6 - Posted by: BarryNo 2/6/2022 2:41:25 PM (No. 1063691)
I agree that no knock warrants have to go. I understood the original purpose of the warrants, but their scope of use has been expanded since first conceived, and too many innocent people have died. The original purpose was to prevent drug dealers from flushing the evidence down the drain before answering the door. There have got to be better ways of operating. No Knocks might be un-Constitutional..
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 2/6/2022 2:50:11 PM (No. 1063696)
If no knocks are supposed to be about flushing drugs then cut water to the building first, then knock.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 2/6/2022 3:07:10 PM (No. 1063703)
Re #7. Cutting off the water doesn't stop a toilet from flushing, only from refilling for a second flush.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/6/2022 3:14:33 PM (No. 1063716)
If you point a gun at cops, it's not homicide, it's suicide.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: lakerman1 2/6/2022 3:38:39 PM (No. 1063743)
What should the police officers have done? (Yahoo mis- characterizes the shooting of the sainted Breonna Taylor, bag lady for two competing drug dealers. A police officer was shot by her boyfriend, and the police returned fire. Had she stayed in the bedroom, she would not have been shot.)
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Reply 11 - Posted by: 504pc 2/6/2022 3:58:52 PM (No. 1063750)
Anybody that breaks down my is their going to get shot. Castle doctrine, I don’t know if it’s cops or someone saying their cops.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 2/6/2022 4:04:40 PM (No. 1063754)
Not in favor of this kind of warrant serving. I keep a handgun handy at all time, and strange men breaking down my door - are likely to receive bullets unless they can convince me that they are police. And they will have a gun pointed at them, very quickly. This is more a serious policy problem with warrant service than a racial problem. But evil Ben Crump will MAKE it into a racial problem, because that is what he does. For MONEY.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Sanchin 2/6/2022 4:35:02 PM (No. 1063764)
Just end no-knocks.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 2/6/2022 5:45:57 PM (No. 1063799)
Sorry, but in America, if you burst into my home, unannounced and aggressively, you deserve gunfire. And it doesn't matter if I'm Al Capone or Ted Bundy. Enter unannounced, receive gunfire. Period. If it is that important to you, then nab me the next time I walk to the corner store fore cigarettes. Safer for you. Safer for me. Provided you can wait long enough for me to leave my home for that pack of cigarettes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: rochow 2/6/2022 6:06:06 PM (No. 1063807)
So, he had a legal gun. Does that mean he was legally entitled to shoot the police??? And they better stand still and wait that he gets a good shot at them from under the blanket????
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Birddog 2/6/2022 6:18:47 PM (No. 1063813)
Sheesh...they had both a search and an arrest warrant, in a homicide case. They didn't kick the door in, they got a key from the landlord, are on body cameras loudly announcing who they were, that they had a warrant. Before Crump gets toooo much more TV time about "Race", what color were the homicide victims? Who was the apt leased to? Were they named in the warrant? What color? Who else was there? What color? What color was the gun?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: GoodDeal 2/6/2022 6:50:20 PM (No. 1063832)
Pull a gun and the first shot off wins. Apparently the cops got the first shot off.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: chumley 2/6/2022 8:18:34 PM (No. 1063898)
Like every other power the government/police have, this no knock warrant has been completely abused. Kind of like the RICO organized crime laws. End all this carp and go back to what the 4th Amendment says in the first place. In the meantime, nobody killing a cop during a no knock warrant should face charges. Yelling "police" and smashing a door down in the middle of the night with guns drawn does not make one a policeman, it makes one a thug.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 2/6/2022 9:24:51 PM (No. 1063938)
Pretty good reason to protest. They raided the wrong house and killed an innocent man. They should hang the cops from a lamp post.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 2/6/2022 9:27:26 PM (No. 1063942)
#8 then put a trap on the sewer clean out before it goes anywhere. Ot, better yet, end the war on drugs. Not only have we lost, the collateral damage and government expansion is not worth it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Geoman 2/7/2022 12:09:01 AM (No. 1064009)
A lot of ignorance being tossed around here. "No-knock" is not synonymous with "No-warrant." It is also an urban legend that their only purpose is to prevent drugs from being flushed. Try having someone in your house holding you and your family hostage, or simply conducting an increasingly common "home invasion" robbery after you have demanded that responding officers beat on your door before being invited inside. Better yet, become a police tactical officer and volunteer to apprehend a barricaded gunman after first banging on the door to announce that they are under arrest and must come out and surrender peacefully.
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