In the early morning hours Wednesday, Minneapolis police officers gently placed a key in a city apartment door before bursting through the doorway yelling "Police! Search warrant!," according to body camera footage released by city officials Thursday night.
Highlights
- Minneapolis police officers placed a key in a door before bursting through the doorway yelling “Police!
- Search warrant!”
- The man was shot and killed in the early morning hours Wednesday morning.
- He was not named in any search warrants before the entry, police say.
- The shooting brings further scrutiny to the use of no-knock warrants and shines a spotlight on a police department that has faced criticism before.
- In May 2020, Minneapolis Police Department officers were involved in the killing of George Floyd before later being fired and charged in his death, a spokesperson for the City of Minneapolis has not gotten out to CNN for comment, but the city has reached out to the Minneapolis Police Federation.