No charges filed in no-knock warrant killing of Amir Locke

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in February.

The 22-year-old Locke, who was Black, was staying on a couch in an apartment when authorities entered it without knocking as part of an investigation into a homicide.

Locke was not named in the warrant. Authorities said he was shot seconds after he pointed a gun in the direction of officers.

Locke’s family has questioned that.

Body camera footage shows Locke holding a gun before he was shot.

His death sparked protests and a reexamination of no-knock search warrants in Minneapolis and beyond.