The Minneapolis Police Department ushered in Black History
Month with another grotesquely unconstitutional, no-knock warrant, Gestapo raid
that resulted in the murder of an innocent person of color, Amir Locke, who had
been asleep on the couch and was not even connected to the warrant. This, not even a full two years after the
very same PD murdered George Floyd; as a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty, the principal murderer who was convicted of
the murder, while the three accessories to the murder are now in federal court facing
charges of aiding and abetting the murder. It's a devastating exposure of the failures of policing and of the judicial system in the United States that the Judge in Chauvin's trial is reportedly the very Judge who signed the no-knock warrant that resulted in Amir Locke's murder.
The MPD is absolutely shouting out the need to be fundamentally restructured. Police departments across the nation also require restructuring, but the MPD has singled itself out as beyond the ability to abide by the law and human decency. It is long past time that the Constitution be upheld and that no-knock warrants entirely cease without any unacceptable exceptions whatsoever, in accordance with the SCOTUS ruling that points out that they are in flagrant violation of the fourth amendment. The officer who murdered the innocent Amir Locke must be terminated immediately and arrested for murder.
