Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
President Aoun: We urge the activation of the monitoring committee, the cessation of hostilities, ongoing Israeli violations, attacks
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to US Envoy Morgan Ortagus: Southerners must be enabled to return to their homes and rebuild
Syrian sources: The Israeli occupation has begun withdrawing from the areas it infiltrated last night in the Quneitra countryside.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent: Massive bombings in eastern Gaza, the second within half an hour, and its sound was heard from central area.
Russian air defense units destroyed a drone that was heading toward Moscow.
Maduro: Tomorrow, a business meeting will be held bringing together hundreds of entrepreneurs from advanced Russian industries with hundreds of Venezuelan businesspeople.
Maduro: In the face of threats, Trinidad and Tobago agreed to suspend all effects of the energy agreement and everything that had been agreed upon in that regard.
Maduro: It’s time to make a choice, either stand with the warmongers who want death and violence, or stand with life.
Maduro: They want our wealth. This is not about drug trafficking, and they know it.
Maduro: Everyone in the world knows that what the economic elite ruling the United States seeks today is Venezuela’s oil, gas, and gold.

US police publish footage showing officers shooting Black man

  • By Al Mayadeen Net
  • Source: Agencies
  • 4 Feb 2022 08:39
2 Min Read

Authorities in Minneapolis shared a body-cam video on Thursday showing a 22-year-old African American man being shot and killed by the police.

  • x
  • US police publish footage showing officer shoot Black man
    US police publish footage showing an officer shooting a Black man.

Authorities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed in 2020, released body-cam footage on Thursday showing a 22-year-old African American man being shot by police.

Amir Locke was shot by authorities executing a search warrant on his flat on Wednesday after he retrieved a revolver from beneath a blanket, according to the police.

It took less than ten seconds from the officers' arrival to the rounds being fired. Locke was pronounced dead at the hospital. 

Locke was not identified in the search warrant, according to the local Star Tribune newspaper, but he was tied to a suspect in a homicide investigation.

In a statement released Thursday, the family's attorneys said he "legally possessed a firearm" and had no prior criminal record. His mother told the Star Tribune: "We want justice for our son."

Related News

Gold falls over 2% to three-week low on signs of easing US-China trade

Trump, Takaichi sign rare earths deal to strengthen US-Japan alliance

Read more: Former prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery murder indicted

 

A key is used to unlock the door in the footage, and then a bunch of officers enters while shouting "Police, search warrant!" When police fire, Locke, who was sitting on a couch before getting startled, starts to rise from beneath a blanket with a revolver in his hand.

The family has hired attorney Ben Crump, who has represented several Black people who have been killed by police, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, whose deaths in 2020 provoked nationwide protests.

Crump will also have a virtual press conference with the family on Friday morning, according to a release.

Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, assassinated George Floyd in May 2020. Breonna Taylor had been killed two months before when police raided her home after midnight and her boyfriend, mistaking them for burglars, opened fire.

According to the Star Tribune, conversations on police radio before the Minneapolis events Wednesday suggest that the police planned a "no-knock" entrance.

"Like the case of Breonna Taylor, the tragic killing of Amir Locke shows a pattern of no-knock warrants having deadly consequences for Black Americans," said Crump in a statement.

"We will continue pushing for answers in this case so that Amir's grieving family can get the closure they deserve," he added.

  • United States
  • Black Lives Matter
  • George Floyd
  • Breonna Taylor

Most Read

'Israel’s Digital Iron Dome: Weaponizing the web against Palestine

'Israel’s Digital Iron Dome: Weaponizing the web against Palestine

  • Technology
  • 24 Oct 2025
Arab League chief exposes secret US deal shielding 'Israel’s' nukes

Arab League chief exposes secret US deal shielding 'Israel’s' nukes

  • Politics
  • 27 Oct 2025
Abu Hamza, the spokesperson for the Al-Quds Brigades, during a speech televised on October 22, 2025 (Al-Quds Brigades Military Media)

Al-Quds Brigades' Abu Hamza mourns leaders, vows continued resistance

  • Politics
  • 22 Oct 2025
US missionary kidnapped in Niger capital, suspected taken toward Mali

US missionary kidnapped in Niger capital, suspected taken toward Mali

  • Africa
  • 23 Oct 2025

Coverage

All
War on Gaza

Read Next

All
Delta Air Lines flight lands at Harry Reid International Airport, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Las Vegas (AP)
Politics

Nearly 3,800 US flights disrupted amid ongoing government shutdown

FILE - The Amazon logo is pictured at the Amazon Robotic Sorting Fulfillment Center in Madison County, Miss., Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Economy

Amazon to cut 30,000 jobs in largest layoff in company history

Eurofighter Typhoon Spain's Air Force fighter jets fly above the military parade marking 'Día de la Hispanidad', or Hispanic Day, in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP)
Politics

UK sells 20 Eurofighter jets to Türkiye in £8bln defense agreement

Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025 (AP)
Politics

RSF tighten El Fasher siege as Sudan risks fragmentation: Reuters

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS