Lessons on warrant reform from Ferguson Two Black men were killed by police last month, and in both cases, police were attempting to serve arrest warrants. The Into America podcast goes to Ferguson, Mo. to understand the successes and challenges of warrant reform. May 6, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC It often takes a tragedy to start a conversation around reform in this country. So when two Black men, Duante Wright and Andrew Brown Jr., were killed by police last month as officers were attempting to serve arrest warrants, calls for warrant reform joined the chorus of other demands for change. Last week, Minnesota lawmakers began the process of trying to answer those calls and put forward a bill that would replace arrest warrants with a written warning system for most misdemeanor offenses.