MINNEAPOLIS—Minnesota’s governor activated the National Guard late Friday as Minneapolis braced for unrest over the police killing of Amir Locke, a Black 22-year-old entrepreneur fatally shot when cops entered his apartment on a no-knock warrant.
“It never ends. If Minneapolis police stop killing Black people, we’ll stop gathering like this. I’m absolutely done with Minneapolis, with St. Paul. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’m not proud of our city,” said Sarah Han, who joined with the car caravan protest outside the Bolero Flats apartment building where Locke was killed.
Locke had dreams of going into the music industry. He also had admiration and respect for law enforcement, according to his family.
But the young man with no criminal record had his dreams cut short when Minneapolis police officers charged into his home with a “no-knock” warrant on Wednesday. One officer fatally shot him while he was still wrapped in a blanket on a couch in an incident already drawing comparisons to the tragic 2020 slaying of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
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