 If we don't keep getting in the streets and keep putting the pressure on them, they will keep killing us. They will keep going on with business as usual. They'll act as though they have no ability to change the policy. But if we keep on pushing, I bet you that policy gets changed, our people need to be liberated. We can talk about police accountability, but the whole damn system is guilty as hell. Those two years after the George Floyd uprisings, Minneapolis still struggles for an end to police killings of black people. The city that originated the Justice for George Floyd uprisings of 2020 has once again erupted in struggle. Thousands of people, braving severe cold, marched from the Hennepin County government building to the first police precinct of the city of Minneapolis on February 5th. They were in the streets demanding justice after the police murder of Amir Lock. Following his murder, massive demonstrations have been taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On Wednesday, February 2nd, Amir Lock, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police in the early morning. The police were in the process of executing the controversial practice of a no-knock warrant. A no-knock warrant allows law enforcement to enter a property without immediate prior notification of the residents. Amir was sleeping on the couch in the living room when police first entered the home. Officers kicked the back of the couch Amir was sleeping on in order to wake him up. Startled awake, Amir reached for a gun, which his family claims he had a license to carry. Body camera footage shows Amir pointing the gun towards the floor with his finger off the trigger. Instead of asking him to drop the weapon, officer Mark Henneman shot Amir three times within nine seconds of first laying eyes on him. Amir later died of his wounds in the hospital. Over a thousand people came out on Saturday in freezing weather, one of the biggest crowds we've had here in Minneapolis all winter. Amir Lock's father and aunt spoke about his life and how much life he had left to live. He was only 22 years old, and the refrain was, Who were you at 22? Demands focused on banning no-knock warrants, releasing all the body cam footage, and arresting the cop who killed Amir. Many signs read, Fry lied Amir died in reference to Mayor Jacob Fry's false claim that he had banned no-knock warrants. Fry went so far as to include banning no-knock warrants in his list of accomplishments for his recent successful reelection bid. Organizers here are committed to continue to hit the streets, to fight for justice for Amir, and to jail all killer cops. On Tuesday, hundreds of students walked out of high school in protest of Amir's murder. Minneapolis is the same city where Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Floyd's murder ignited massive protests, which quickly engulfed the entire city before spreading across the country and the entire world in what became the largest anti-racist struggle in US history. Two years later, the people of Minneapolis and the rest of the US are still struggling for an end to police killings of black people.