Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges on Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February.
Locke, age 22, who was Black, was sleeping on the couch in the apartment when authorities entered it on February 2 as part of an investigation into a homicide in the neighbouring city of St Paul.
Locke was startled awake and picked up a handgun when the special weapons and tactics (SWAT) officer shot him, police body camera video shows. He was killed within seconds of police entering the apartment. Minneapolis authorities claimed Locke pointed the gun in the direction of officers, but his family has questioned that.
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