Posted on 02/05/2022 6:26:48 PM PST by Baladas
Scroll back up to restore default view. CBS News Hundreds gather in Minneapolis to demand justice for Amir Locke Tori B. Powell Sat, February 5, 2022, 4:46 PM In this article:
Jacob Frey American politician, mayor of Minneapolis Hundreds of people gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday to demand justice for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a police last week. Crowds held signs calling for the resignation of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and officer Mark Hanneman, who shot Locke, according to CBS Minnesota.
"This is not easy, to have to bury your son," Locke's father, Andre, told a crowd Saturday, according to video posted to Twitter.
He said Locke's mother was "so overwhelmed with grief, disbelief, sorrow, everything that you could imagine that a mother feels when she loses her baby."
Hundreds of people now marching through downtown Minneapolis for Amir Locke pic.twitter.com/L8eCd5pVX0
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) February 5, 2022
Protesters also called for Hanneman to be prosecuted.
At around 6:48 a.m. Wednesday morning, a SWAT team executed a homicide-suspect search warrant as part of an investigation into a violent crime, authorities said.
Video of the raid showed Locke wrapped in a blanket on a couch when officers entered the apartment. The officers shouted at him to show his hands and get on the ground. Locke then sits up with a gun before being shot.
The Minneapolis Police Department said Locke, a legal gun owner, had pointed a loaded gun in the officers' direction at about nine seconds into the encounter. Three shots are heard before the video ends.
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Another dead thug.
Hundreds? Is that Million Man Math?
Justice.
The police didn't even wait to find out if the gun was loaded!
People who don’t aim a gun at police tend to live longer. Simple fact.
Democrat Mayor, Democrat Governor.
Don’t give a rip about the “victim” or the woke cops.
It’s a little cool to be burning and looting in Mogadipolis. It will give people time to know the facts before the summer riot season.
I don't recall such expressions when Brianna Kupfer was murdered in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.
When thugs defy the police or assault them and get shot, we are supposed to care and Minneapolis goes nuts. But when a beautiful young white woman is brutally murdered, we hear almost nothing.
...or if Locke was an aspiring rapper...
Well said. Amen....
Just racism everywhere.
this related article claims he was an aspiring rapper:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amir-locke-killed-minneapolis-cop-wanted-music-career-82691628
lol
Burn down some more of the city.
It’s getting harder and harder to be a smartass around here...lol!
First off, was this the guy the cops had the warrant for and secondly, if he was NOT the guy, its possible he had a gun near him in case someone broke in so that might explain things
No offense to African-American Freepers here but I’m beyond fed up every time one of these useless hood rats gets theirs their mothers start wailing about ‘’Dem polease dey be shootin’ black kids all de time!’’
Did any one of these equally useless welfare dependent baby factories pushing out six kids by six different daddies ever give a rats ass when their black sons are carrying guns and gunning down some other black mothers son?
Hey lady, F you.
You raised him and now he’s dead because he pointed a gun at cops.
Tough shit. You failed as a mother.
... who was getting his life together
Only one thing to do:
Burn it Down for Michael Brown.
Get to it.
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