The parents of amir lock also saw that video and we re hearing from them for the first time today. take a listen. as his mother,ly make sure that as long as i m in this world, i m going to fight every day, throughout the day, 365 days to make sure that amir rickary lock gets justice for being executed by the mpd. yes. now, one of their attorneys ant the parents also emphasize that lock was a lawful gun owner. it is also worth noting that in minneapolis, in late 2020, the city updated its no-knock warrant policy, not completely eliminating it, but basically saying it could only be used for specific high-risk circumstances so we re trying to get clarity from the city right now on why
Happened to amir locke. the mayor announced a new no-knock warrant policy in the months after george floyd s murder, and the first time the no-knock warrant policy was instituted, and the idea was to have all officers operating under the school playbook when they do the no-knock warrants and the idea was to reduce the amount of no-knock warrants the department was doing, and it doesn t seem like that number went down significantly. now no-knock warrants are back facing that scrutiny. members of the city council are having a look at no-knock warrants and how they can be better implemented. you mentioned the moratorium the mayor put in place, he did that on friday after the shooting of locke, and that pause will be in place until a group of experts come in, two national experts
The department s policy, end quote. joining us now is brandt williams, he is an editor with minnesota public radio covering race, class, and communities. thank you for making time to be here tonight. i want to be clear on this, because we started talking about no knock warrants in early 2020, i would assume that a lot of police departments were looking at this. at the time, minneapolis was involved in the aftermath of george floyd, it had a police union leader who was, you know, we have different words to describe him, but he was not really in sync with even the police chief. minneapolis has a lot of policing problems. correct. let s go back to that no-knock warrant policy, in november of 2020, the minneapolis police department, and the mayor basically put out, announced, that they were going to actually formally make there no-knock warrant policy formal, which they had not done before. so, that was one of the things that they rolled out. as a part