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The moratorium on no-knock warrants came two days after a SWAT team entered a downtown apartment and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old man who his parents said was "executed" after he was startled from a deep sleep and reached for a legal firearm to protect himself.
The parents of Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, say he was “executed” after he was startled from a deep sleep and reached for a legal firearm for protection.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The death of a young Black man at the hands of a Minneapolis police SWAT team is shining new light on how police carry out no-knock warrants. ...
The Minneapolis Police Department restricted their use as part of a wide-ranging set of reforms following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020.
Brian is a former Senior Legal Research Fellow Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family in custody for hours. Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning. "They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."