Paul man Otis Elder’s murder, officers specifically asked to do the search without knocking and outside of the hours of 7 a.m. In the application for the warrant, executed in the investigation of St. Body camera footage released later showed officers wearing protective gear and shouting commands like “Hands!” and “Police search warrant!” Startled, Locke rose from the couch and grabbed a gun he was licensed to carry before Officer Mark Hanneman shot and killed Locke just seconds after the officers entered the apartment. Paul murder investigation by entering the apartment using a key. In February last year, Locke was asleep on the couch in his cousin’s apartment in downtown Minneapolis when a Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant as part of a St. Some believe had the new restrictions been in place during the ill-fated Minneapolis raid, Locke would still be alive. Protesters filled the entrance to Minneapolis City Hall in the days after his killing, and state lawmakers brought a measure limiting the practice back to committee a year later, where it ultimately passed the Legislature and was signed into law.ĭespite stricter criteria for law enforcement to get a no-knock warrant, the new restrictions are not a total ban, leaving the door open for use in exigent circumstances like hostage situations.
Nationwide attempts to curtail the use of no-knock warrants began after the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor during a botched raid in Louisville, Kentucky, but gained steam in Minnesota after Locke’s death. Almost a year and a half after a Minneapolis SWAT team fatally shot 22-year-old Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in a downtown apartment, a new law will go into effect making it more difficult for courts to sign off on the controversial practice.
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