Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020 has published shocking body-cam video which showed the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man on Thursday.
According to information gathered from the police, Amir Locke was shot by officers who were executing a search warrant on the apartment he was in after Locke pulled a gun from beneath a blanket.
The total time between the officers’ entrance and the shots fired was less than ten seconds.
Locke was pronounced dead at hospital.
In a statement that was released by the family’s attorneys on Thursday, they said that he ‘legally possessed a firearm,’ and had no past criminal record.
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In the video, an officer uses a key to unlock the door and then a group of officers enter while shouting ‘Police, search warrant!’
Locke, who was on a couch, starts to rise from beneath a blanket, with a gun in his hand, when police fire.
The family has retained lawyer Ben Crump, who has represented multiple Black victims of police violence, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, whose killings in 2020 sparked nationwide protests.
Crump will hold a virtual press conference Friday morning with the family, they said in a statement.
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Two months earlier, Breonna Taylor was killed after police entered her home after midnight and her boyfriend, thinking they were intruders, fired on them.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
