Limiting no-knock warrants is not enough. The Breonna Taylor tragedy leaves no doubt.
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Opinion: Police have had decades to use no-knock warrants safely, and they’ve failed too often. Weak changes only masquerade as real protection.
Long before Breonna Taylor’s death in a botched drug raid last year ignited a national debate over the deadly practice of using no-knock warrants, plenty of innocent people had already been killed during these reckless police maneuvers.
No-knock warrants, which allow police to break down doors without knocking or identifying themselves, are especially dangerous to civilians: At least 31 were killed from 2010 through 2016. But they also can be deadly for police, eight of whom were killed during the same period.
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KARE 11 Investigates: Coon Rapids officials question botched no-knock raid
Calling it an “inexcusable mistake” officials blame Minneapolis police and Anoka County SWAT team for raiding the wrong house, holding mother and child at gunpoint. Author: A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert Published: 7:34 PM CDT May 8, 2021 Updated: 10:27 PM CDT May 8, 2021
COON RAPIDS, Minn. Officials in Coon Rapids are demanding answers after a KARE 11 investigation revealed how Minneapolis police and the Anoka County SWAT team raided the wrong home in their city.
During the pre-dawn ‘no-knock’ raid, an innocent mother and her 12-year-daughter were held at gunpoint.
“It seems like we have a responsibility to protect our residents somehow,” Mayor Jerry Koch said during this week’s city council meeting.
Mayor Frey apologizes to family, asks for investigation into botched raid
The apology comes after a KARE 11 investigation into the raid, which law enforcement executed at the wrong address.
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The apology comes following a
published last week that found Minneapolis police requested a raid on the wrong address, with KARE saying some basic checking could have prevented the wrong-address raid. The intended target, an armed robbery suspect, had left that address nearly a year earlier, and his current address was easily available in court records. This type of obvious breakdown in process and horrible mistake is unacceptable. Period, Frey said in a statement sent to Bring Me The News. I reached out directly to Bianca Mathias earlier today to apologize to Jaiselle and her and hear directly what they experienced.