US authorities in city of Minneapolis publish a body-cam video showing the police shooting of 22-year-old Black man Amir Locke
Amir Locke, who was on a couch, starts to rise from beneath a blanket, with a gun in his hand, when police fire three shots.
In the video which was released on Thursday, a SWAT team officer uses a key to unlock the door and then a group of officers enter while shouting "Police, search warrant!" According to the police, Locke was shot on Wednesday by officers who were executing a search warrant on the apartment he was in after Locke pulled a gun from beneath a blanket.
"As there's a gun emerging in your direction, you are forced to make a split-second decision on when it's a threat," Huffman said during a press conference on Thursday.Conversations on the police radio prior to the Minneapolis events on Wednesday suggest that the police had planned a "no-knock" entrance, theThe newspaper reported that Locke was not named in the search warrant, but said he was related to a suspect in the investigation of a homicide.
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