Thousands of people are expected to gather on Thursday to mourn Amir Locke, a Black man killed by white policemen while he was asleep in his own apartment. This is the latest in a series of killings of innocent Black men and women to spark outrage over police treatment and targeting of African American men, women, and children.
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The service for Locke will take place at Shiloh Temple International Ministries, the same church where Daunte Wright, shot and killed during a traffic stop in a nearby suburb, was memorialized in April 2021.
Wright’s death came about a year after the killing of George Floyd, who died when a Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground in May 2020. Floyd’s death, captured on a video that went viral, sparked a summer of protests over racial injustice across the United States and abroad.
The circumstances around Locke’s fatal encounter with police mirrors that of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who police fatally shot during a raid on her Kentucky apartment. Taylor was not the subject of that no-knock search warrant.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed he has placed a moratorium on such searches, but an Afro World News study reveals that 90% of No-Knock warrants were issued targeting Black families.
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