ST. PAUL, Minn. – Increasing pressure from Minnesota lawmakers and community activists has led to the release of body camera footage of a fatal police shooting.
Minneapolis officers were executing a search warrant for St. Paul authorities at an apartment when 22-year-old Amir Locke was shot to death. Multiple sources say Locke was not the subject of the homicide investigation.
The Racial Justice Network says Locke, who had a concealed-carry permit, didn’t live at the apartment and his family believes he was startled when the police broke in.
Spokeswoman Nekima Levy Armstrong says she’s a licensed gun owner, and if someone came unexpectedly to her house at 6:00 a-m, “I couldn’t guarantee that my hand would not be on my gun.”
