No charges for Minneapolis officer who killed Amir Locke during no-knock raid

Locke, 22, who was Black, shot dead by police officer after Swat team entered apartment without knocking early in February

Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges on Wednesday against a Minneapolis police Swat team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February.

Locke, 22, who was Black, was staying on a couch in the apartment when authorities entered it on 2 February without knocking as part of an investigation into a homicide in neighboring St Paul.