A controversial police shooting in Minneapolis is under review, after a team of SWAT officers killed Amir Locke on Wednesday seconds after they burst into an apartment to serve a no-knock warrant.
“Amir Locke’s life mattered,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement sent to NPR. “He was only 22 years old and had his whole life ahead of him.”
Ellison says his office is working with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to review and decide whether to bring criminal charges in the case, which comes less than two years after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd.
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