Disturbing bodycam footage shows police break into an apartment and kill a Black man who was lying on the couch.
The footage shows cops carrying out a raid on a home shouting “police! Search warrant,” as they smash through the door.
The short piece of video footage shows a black man who appears to be asleep. Upon waking he appears to be holding a gun before he is shot and killed.
Police search warrants did not name the man before the raid, said police, but he was identified as 22-year-old Amir Locke.
Legal representatives of Mr Locke’s family say he was in lawful possession of the gun.
Mike Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, asked Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to review the shooting by officers in Minneapolis, US.
“Thereafter we will decide together, based on the law and evidence, whether criminal charges should be brought.”
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