 Over the weekend a very disturbing video went viral of Minneapolis police officers fatally shooting 22 year old Amir Locke They had a no-knock warrants and they enter the home where he was sleeping and nine seconds later He was dead nine seconds. That's all it took Now if you're thinking Wait a second no knock raids didn't we do away with that after Breonna Taylor was gunned down during a no-knock raid? Well, actually, no They are still a thing in the United States of America even after they've proven to be disastrous Time and time again and Amir Locke was not even the subject of their warrant. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time But now he's dead Let's go to the Philadelphia Inquirer where wool bunch explains if you watch your local crime-soaked TV newscasts You've probably seen reports about a recent spike in carjackings in some cities in Minneapolis a 22 year old black man named Amir Locke who occasionally worked deliveries for DoorDash told his family those Worries were why the young aspiring musician with no criminal record went out and legally purchased a handgun at 648 a.m Wednesday Locke was apparently soundly sleeping in a friend's downtown apartment when he was startled by five loud men coming through The front door causing him to grab the nearby gun in the pre-dawn utter chaos Will never know if Locke even heard the men shouting police search warrant or commanding him to get down and drop the weapon It took just nine seconds for those Minneapolis police officers who'd obtained a no-knock search warrant in a murder investigation to fire Three shots that struck and killed the young man Locke it turned out wasn't even being sought in the homicide probe So just a forewarning. I'm gonna play the video for you here It shows it in slow motion first of all and then towards the end of this clip That's about one minute long. You'll see the full nine-second thing in real time This is what Ben Crump says about this. He shared this video and he writes as Brianna Taylor showed us No knock warrants have deadly consequences for innocent law abiding black people Minneapolis PD executed a no knock warrant yesterday at 648 a.m Killing Amir Locke while he was wrapped in a blanket on the couch now We demand justice for Amir Locke and without further ado. Here's the video one more time. This is very very graphic. Take a look So true So that's disturbing to say the least now put yourself in Amir Locke's position Imagine it's 648 a.m. And you're sound asleep and all of a sudden five men barge loudly into your home and They have guns and there's flashlights you wouldn't be able to process what's going on Nobody would let alone hear them say police search warrant. I Mean sure maybe he heard that but there's no way his brain was able to quickly process that he was sound asleep He was wrapped in the blanket literally and So, you know legally the police officers will not be held liable because he lunged for the gun because he grabbed it But the thing is that we hear conservatives all the time talk about the crime rate, right? And they claim arming yourself is only reasonable That's why we have the second amendment to protect yourself in your home now That wasn't his home per se, but I mean he was he was sleeping there So if he was worried about gun Crimes and he purchased a gun, you know as a result of being worried about crime You know and he doesn't know what's happening people barge in and he instinctively reaches for the gun Is that really his fault? It's it's so sad Again, he has no criminal record and he wasn't the target of their search now We don't know what would happen in the event. They didn't have this no-knock warrant and they knocked first But is there a chance he might still be here today to realize oh, it's police officers I could see through the people. It's them. Let me put away my gun or at least let them know that I have a legal firearm We have no idea of knowing But what this should tell everyone is that no knock raids should not Be acceptable in a civilized society now You might be asking yourself what will come of this and the answer is probably nothing because reasons the filibuster the parliamentarian All of this there was actually legislation that was proposed to Ban no knock raids and can you guess where it is right now? It's just sitting Dying in Congress no action being taken and the story with regard to this particular Legislation that will bunch talks about in this article. It's infuriating to see what happened to this legislation So the growing number of no-knock raids that went horribly wrong most notably the March 2020 killing of Louisville's Brianna Taylor a 26 year old emergency room technician which triggered months of protest in Kentucky's largest city sparked promises of reform that year several Republicans led by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott that chambers only black Republican join Democrats and promising a federal law that would curb the most egregious police practices even as some critics at the plan didn't go far enough what became known in 2021 as the George Floyd justice and policing act explicitly banned no-knock warrants for federal narcotics probes and it dangled the powerful threat of barring federal dollars for state and local law Enforcement agencies that refuse to curtail these types of raids in some states and localities have indeed either banned or sharply Restricted their use over the nearly two years since the botched Taylor break-in It's likely that many more would have acted with passage of the George Floyd bill But once the loud din of 2020's black lives matter marches died down Republican lawmakers whose lofty rhetoric about freedom seems to melt whenever it meets the police state Sided with lobbyists for cop unions and stopped paying even lip service to reform their proposal passed the house last March on a mostly party line Vote but Scott admitted there weren't the 10 Republican Senate votes needed under the onerous filibuster regime He even turned against his own bill. He turned against his own bill imagine that No desire to fight no desire to push through try to get this passed using budget reconciliation Or trying to get any of his Republican colleagues on board just nothing. He just died and he's like, okay Well, I can't find support. So I guess I'm against it now brilliant logic there Tim Scott Wow Now I don't know if this bill is broad enough to even apply to this instance because it sites narcotics there I think that no knock warren should just be banned full stop But either way this would have made a difference. It would have heavily disincentivized police departments From doing no knock raids by hanging funding over their heads, but what are we doing instead? It's not just that we're doing nothing. We're actually encouraging Police to have more budgets. It sounds ridiculous as I say it But Joe Biden the president of the United States, you know in response to calls to defund the police and police reform He's encouraging police departments to use money from the American Rescue Act to increase the funding of police departments Yeah He's doing that and as he does this as he says things like that encourages Cities to use the American Rescue Act to bolster the already massive police budgets You have the GOP and Fox News shrieking about how the police have already been defunded. We don't have any police Didn't you notice they're gone. They've been defunded by Democrats folks We don't see the police tanks rolling through neighborhoods. It's just they're gone now. They've been defunded. Thanks black lives matter The situation is truly ridiculous and what's sad is knowing that even with Democrats in control Nothing's gonna get accomplished. It doesn't matter that there's no limit really There could be 20 more Amir locks this year and still no action would likely be taken because our country is fundamentally broken a Modern civilized society would fix these problems. They'd respond with policies to these issues But it's not gonna happen So, you know, all we can do is grow increasingly angry knowing that this is going to happen again because the police Haven't been reformed Democrats are trying to expand their budgets. It's just it's Infuriating because we know that this doesn't have to be the way things go There doesn't have to be these deaths at the hands of police officers but Congress is choosing to let this keep happening and it's just it's It's depressing The silver lining is that at least the Minneapolis Police Department has suspended no-knock warrants finally after they killed Amir lock but we need Federal action otherwise nationwide this will still be an occurrence that happens frequently where Innocent people are killed because of these no-knock warrants