Ep. 568 - Amir Locke is Why We Need a COMPLETE BAN on No-Knock Raids

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today on @TheBreakdown I want to give you two very important updates on the brutal police execution of Amir Locke and I want to explain why I still believe a total ban on no-knock raids, which are banned in almost every developed nation in the world, still makes a difference here.

I see a lot of people saying they don't care if no-knock raids are banned or not because police will still be brutal. I understand that level of frustration. No single solution to police violence will solve the WHOLE problem, but it can solve SOME of the problem. Without no-knock raids, Breonna Taylor would still be alive today. And Amir Locke would as well.

We can't reject some fundamental solutions because they aren't all-encompassing. Do I want to solve the whole damn problem? OF COURSE I DO, but the whole problem gets solved policy by policy, position by position.

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0:30.2	Today I want us to talk some more about the tragic,
0:34.0	horrible execution of the young brother,
0:36.7	a mere lock in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
0:39.4	We've got some more information
0:40.5	that helps us understand exactly what happened,
0:44.2	why it happened, how it happened,
0:46.7	how it could have been avoided.
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