actual application of how we re doing law. no-knock warrants knocked out is the beginning, but inherent in the system is something wrong. that they keep coming up and going after the wrong people, whether it is no-knock or not, it needs to be a correction on how we pursue people. i d i m glad you brought up the system. it is something addressed yesterday with pete buttigieg. black voters think biden hasn t necessarily fulfilled the promises that he set out to do when he was elected president. we know the black community got president biden elected. let s take a listen to the exchange, then respond on the other side. you do realize, pete, a lot of black people feel democrats kept no promises since they ve been in office. really? yes. reverend al said that a million
You've probably heard of the "do not call" registry, where they supposedly stop people from blind calling your home phone (of the few that still have them) or mobile phone. Everybody loves the idea, Tennessee has a service called the "Do Not Knock" registry.
of that, they made it more difficult for officers to have those no-knock warrants, which are, as we saw in this case, can be quite deadly. so we are not sure what is going to be different here, because there was already this statement that there was going to be, these types of warrants were going to be much more rare. so now the mayor is saying, there is this moratorium, but there are still exceptions for certain cases where there may be a certain circumstance that warrants that the officers to come in unannounced. there is a bit of the story that has been reported, that is that the st. paul police sought a knock and announce warrant for this apartment in minneapolis, across the river from each other, sister cities, during the homicide investigation. minneapolis police said they would not carry out the warrant, unless it was no-knock, law enforcement sources said this
me, why would minneapolis than go ahead and why would these officers then choose to do an unannounced entry? what were they expecting on the other side of that door? now we have been doing some reporting on this, and one of my colleagues spoke to a neighbor who used to live in the building next door to the apartment where mr. locke was killed. this person told one of our reporters that there was somebody living there at the time who frankly scared them, and caused this neighbor to call the police. this neighbor said they heard gunshots. we are still digging into this reporting. but this may be a reason why minneapolis police decided to do a no-knock when they had the authority to have an announced entry. that is one of the follow-ups to the story, which is quite interesting. we are going to follow it very closely with you, thank you for being with us, brandt williams is the editor with radio news covering race, class,