The parents of Amir Locke and their lawyers say the 22-year-old Black man was “executed” by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week, when a SWAT team woke him up from a deep sleep during a fatal, early-morning raid.Locke’s parents, Andre Locke and Karen Wells, on Friday described their son as respectful, including to police, and said he reached in confusion for a legal firearm to protect himself after being woken up by police.Wells said the couple coached their son on how to act and do “what they needed to do whenever they encountered police officers” because of the danger to “unarmed Black males”.
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