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Wright in april. trial attorney and former prosecutor, merry christmas to you, thank you for taking time to join us early as we get ready for the holidays, very difficult trial watching all of that yesterday. what is your reaction to the verdict? >> my first reaction is this was a deliberation. there was a long deliberation. legal experts like myself were questioning whether or not we were going to get a verdict. went on for four days. 27 hours of deliberation on two counts and it wasnt an entir...

>> do you have a car >> no. >> get in. >> reporter: door to door >> sheriffs office sheriffs office! maam, you have to evacuate. >> yeah, we are. were packed >> reporter: sheriffs deputies evacuating residents. >> bring whatever is available. >> reporter: evacuating residents. >> reporter: even saving horses. tonight officers talking about the split second decision. >> for me it was, yeah, im terrified. and i was terrified that whole day this is my job to do ive got to do it. im trained for it h...

Blankets and a gun is seen. and it is in those moments you hear gunshots ring out from officers, take a listen to the interim police chief as she begins to try to explain the mentality in those moments. >> youre forced to make a split second decision about when it is a threat. >> no, no, do not. okay, im not a threat. i dont have a gun. okay. dont treat me like im a threat. this is what i would call the anatomy of a cover-up. this is unacceptable. im sorry, it is. you all had no business agreein...

Injury to mr. locke and his family is the fact that police official, law enforcement continues to tell us that these incidents are unavoidable and the community and i think youve heard some of the frustration from the community in this particular case understand quite clearly, much of this is avoidable and will no longer accept the standard police response when youre talking about this level of loss of life. we cant continue to come here time and time again and ignore the racial component to the...

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What we know is that police issued -- executed this no-knock warrant wednesday morning just before 7:00 a.m. they entered. they announced that they were police. according to lockes parents, he was asleep on the couch. police -- you can see him in that video underneath a blanket and thats when he sort of twists, and police say as soon as they saw a gun, thats when they opened fire. the interim police chief in minneapolis saying that it was a split-second decision. we are now getting some more con...

Nation," i will be talking to the parents of amir locke, a young 22-year-old block man shot and killed by minneapolis police this week. body cam video shows officers entering an apartment without knocking as they execute a no-knock warrant. on the video he is seen wrapped in a comforter beginning to move with a pistol in his hand just before an officer fires his weapon. lockes family said that he had no criminal record. and he had a license and concealed carry permit for the gun. which they said...

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>> these events happened very rapidly, and as theres a gun emerging in your direction, youre forced to make a split second decision about when its a threat. >> reporter: with at least three shots fired by police who also released this screen grab showing a gun, lockes family compares the no-knock warrant to the botched kentucky police raid that left brie on na taylor dead, from the same police department under scrutiny for george floyds murder. >> he was executed by the mpd and i want the police...

>> reporter: then, bursts through the doorway, searching the apartment police say tied to a st. paul homicide investigation and instead found 22-year-old amir locke who appeared to be asleep on the couch. body camera shows him holding a gun. >> you can see along with an individual emerging from under the blanket the barrel of a gun. >> reporter: cnn hasnt been able to confirm where the officer is but as l on, cke begins to stand, three shots. >> the officer had to make a split second decision to...