No-knock Warrants Are Under Scrutiny Again
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
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Summary
The officer was using a no-knock warrant, allowing law enforcement to enter the apartment without giving notice of their presence. Locke, a Black man, was not a suspect in the investigation that led to the raid.
Amir Locke's death has raised concerns over the use of no-knock warrants, which have been banned in four states. Minnesota is not one of those states, but state and city legislators are once again calling for no-knock warrants to be restricted.
We talk about no-knock warrants and the impact they have on police reform measures.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's not abandon our streets or choose between safety and equal justice. |
| 0:12.9 | Let's come together and protect our communities, restore trust and whole law enforcement |
| 0:17.1 | accountable. |
| 0:18.1 | That's why the Justice Department has required body cameras, ban choke calls and restricted |
| 0:24.0 | no-knock's warrants for its officers. |
| 0:26.7 | President Biden's first state of the union touched on a laundry list of issues. |
| 0:31.1 | Police reform was one of them, particularly no-knock's warrants. |
| 0:34.9 | No-knock's warrants allow officers to enter a private residence, unannounced, sometimes |
| 0:40.0 | as loudly as possible. |
| 0:41.7 | This week, Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar introduced legislation that would ban |
| 0:45.5 | them at the federal level. |
| 0:47.3 | The renewed attention came after 22-year-old Amir Locke was killed during a police raid |
| 0:51.8 | in Minneapolis last month. |
| 0:54.0 | The SWAT officer who shot him was serving a no-knock warrant. |
| 0:57.5 | That warrant allowed law enforcement to enter the apartment without giving notice of their |
| 1:01.1 | presence. |
| 1:02.1 | Locke, a black man, was not a suspect in the investigation that led to the raid. |
| 1:06.4 | No-knock's warrants have been banned in four states, a list that does not include |
| 1:10.2 | Minnesota, but city leaders in Minneapolis have long called for no-knock's warrants |
| 1:14.4 | to be restricted, and it's mayor issued a moratorium on them last month. |
| 1:18.8 | So what's the future of no-knock's warrants? |
| 1:21.1 | And why does the controversial practice persist? |
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