Body camera video of fatal MPD shooting released

After mounting calls from state lawmakers and community members, late Thursday, authorities released the body camera footage related to the fatal police shooting of a man in a Minneapolis apartment earlier this week.

Amir Locke, 22, was killed after Minneapolis Police Officer Mark Hanneman shot him in the midst of serving a search warrant in connection with a St. Paul homicide case.

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A clip of body camera video released late Thursday shows a group of law enforcement officers turning a key to the apartment door silently.

Upon turning the handle, officers walk through the doorway and then yell to announce their presence. At least four officers enter the apartment.

“Police search warrant!” officers yell at least four times. Their continued yelling including shouts of “hands, hands!” and two calls for the man to “get on the ground” and “get on the f****** ground.”

A man is lying on a couch under a blanket unmoving and only rises when officers kick the couch.

He starts to rise from the waist, holding a handgun, with the barrel pointed toward the ground.

An officer fires three shots from mere feet away while the man is still huddled under a blanket on the couch and the man falls to the ground. The video abruptly ends. Approximately nine seconds elapse from officers turning the key to shots being fired.

According to interim Minneapolis Police Chief Amelia Huffman, the shooting happened at 6:48 a.m. Wednesday on the seventh floor of Bolero Flats while the Minneapolis Police SWAT Team was executing a search warrant on behalf of the St. Paul Police Department homicide investigations unit.

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Law enforcement gained entry to the unit with a key fob, “loudly and repeatedly announced their presence,” crossed the apartment’s threshold and entered while continuing to vocalize their presence, a Wednesday press release states. The officers were wearing marked ballistic vests and tactical gear. Video shows a key, not a fob.

Nine seconds into SWAT’s entry, officers encountered a man armed with a handgun, the release says. The man was pointing the handgun “in the direction of officers.”

Shots were fired, and Locke was hit twice in the chest and once in the right wrist. Officers performed CPR, emergency medical services responded and Locke was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.

Mark Hanneman was identified as the officer who fired his gun during the incident. Thursday, public documents showed that Minneapolis Police Department internal affairs closed the matter with no discipline.

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Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives sent a letter to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Huffman Wednesday, calling for the body camera video to be released….