MINNEAPOLIS, MN (MNN) – No criminal charges will be filed in the death of Amir Locke. That’s the decision announced Wednesday by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
22-year-old Amir Locke was shot and killed in a Minneapolis apartment on February 2nd by Mark Hanneman–a SWAT officer of the Minneapolis Police Department.
At the time police were executing a no-knock search warrant in a homicide investigation.
Locke was staying with his cousin and was not a suspect involved with the warrant.
Freeman and Ellison say there is insufficient admissible evidence to file criminal charges. Specifically, they say the state would be unable to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements of Minnesota’s use-of-deadly-force statute that authorizes the use of force by Officer Hanneman.
In a statement, Freeman and Ellison say Amir Locke’s “life mattered, he should be alive today and his death is a tragedy.”
(from Minnesota News Network)
