Ten Minnesota House lawmakers and the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota have called for body camera footage to be released to ensure transparency.
A man shot and killed by Minneapolis police officers Wednesday morning was not their intended target as he didn’t live in the apartment where police were conducting the raid, according to a civil rights attorney who cited conversations with the man’s family. The shooting is the latest example of violence involving Minneapolis police officers in the past several years, which included incidents that resulted in the deaths of George Floyd and Daunte Wright and which led to convictions for murder and manslaughter, respectively, for the officers responsible. Early Wednesday morning, Minneapolis SWAT officers who were assisting in the investigation of a St. Paul homicide conducted a raid at an apartment building, the Star Tribune reported. Shortly after officers entered the apartment listed in the search warrant, a police incident report states that a shooting occurred and CPR was started minutes later, before paramedics transported the man to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The Star Tribune and the Associated Press both reported that local civil rights attorney and community activist Nekima Levy Armstrong said in a public Facebook post that she had communicated with the family of the man killed in the shooting and said Amir Locke, a Black man in his early 20s, was not one of the suspects police were searching for and was in the apartment because he was staying on a friend’s couch.
