What Next - Where Does Minneapolis Go Now?
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
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Summary
Old wounds are open again in Minneapolis. The city is struggling to investigate a police shooting from earlier this month, when officers carried out a “no-knock” search warrant and fatally shot a 22-year-old Black man in bed. The victim, Amir Locke, was not a suspect in the crime police were investigating. The shooting comes months after city voters rejected a plan to defund the police, and some city officials are struggling to figure out a path forward with a police force that’s been difficult to reform and an electorate that has little appetite for radical change.
Guest: Jeremiah Ellison, member of the Minneapolis City Council.
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| 0:00.0 | Heads up, there is a spot of exasperated bad language in this episode. |
| 0:10.9 | In Minneapolis this month, there was another video, a video of a young black man, |
| 0:16.7 | 22-year-old Amir Locke, being killed by police. I'm not going to play it. It's only 10 seconds |
| 0:23.1 | long. It doesn't reveal a whole lot. And it's really sad. But Jeremiah Ellison, he had to watch. |
| 0:31.7 | When I watched the video for the first time, it was worse than I thought it would be. |
| 0:36.0 | How? |
| 0:36.5 | I mean, he's a kid. |
| 0:43.0 | Ellison is a city council member in Minneapolis. |
| 0:46.3 | He represents Ward 5, which is just a few blocks away from where the shooting took place. |
| 0:51.3 | I remember being 22. |
| 0:52.9 | At the time, I probably didn't feel like much of a kid. |
| 0:55.0 | But, man, when I look at my cousins who are now, you know, getting into their 20s and I'm like, |
| 1:00.9 | man, these are some kids, you know. |
| 1:03.5 | So he looked like a kid to me. |
| 1:05.6 | And he was wrapped in a blanket. |
| 1:08.8 | And he never managed to get unwrapped from that blanket before he was killed. |
| 1:14.7 | It was early on a Wednesday morning when police officers stormed the apartment where a |
| 1:19.5 | mirror lock was staying. They charged up to a couch, and they kicked it, and then they opened fire. |
| 1:26.7 | If you pause the body cam footage, you can just see that Amir Locke, who was not wanted for |
| 1:34.1 | anything, had a gun in his hands. |
| 1:36.8 | He doesn't even have a chance to make any movement before the couch is kicked, and then he |
| 1:42.9 | has gone down, and he's killed right in that moment. |
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