Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., introduced a bill on Tuesday calling for strict limitations on no-knock warrants in drug-related investigations. The bill, named for Amir Locke, would also ban "quick-knock" warrants, nighttime warrants, and the use of explosive devices, chemical weapons, and military grade firearms while warrants are carried out. Locke, a Black Minnesota native, was 22 when he was fatally shot by Minneapolis SWAT officer Mark Hanneman during an early morning execution of a no-knock sea
More details have emerged over the last two days of Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for the shooting death of Daunte Wright, a Black Minnesota motorist
By Victor Omondi In the United States, being Black seems like a criminal offense, and this was made louder after a Black Minnesota man was detained by bank officers for doing nothing more than cashing a paycheck. After 23-year-old Joe Morrow was done with his shift at a grocery store, he passed by a US […]
Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police officer who killed Daunte Wright, violated her training when she shot the 20-year-old Black man with a handgun instead of a Taser during an April traffic stop, a prosecutor told jurors as her manslaughter trial began Wednesday.