days after the fatal police shooting of amir locke last february community activists gathered at the minneapolis city hall in protest were here for amir locke the question that i have is how many more said rod adams a community organizer who spoke at the event seven years from jamar clark were 18 months from george floyd and now we stand here dealing with another murder of a young black man locke 22 was shot and killed by minneapolis police officers as they executed a noknock warrant the controversial practice that allows officers to enter a private home without knocking or making their presence known locke was not a suspect in the crime for which the warrant was issued and was not named in the document a licensed gun owner he had been sleeping under a blanket on the couch when police entered the home body camera footage shows a gun in his hand when he begins to sit up as police approach him an officer can be seen shooting locke less than 10 seconds after entering the room a man holds a portrait of amir locke during a news conference outside the hennepin county government center on april 6 2022 in minneapolis stephen maturengetty images in sound of the police a new hulu original documentary produced by firelight films for abc news studios lockes death is framed as just one example that illustrates the fraught relationship between police and the african american community the film traces the countrys complex racial history that set the path for policing in black communities from the formation of slave patrols in the early 1700s to the advent of jim crow to the uprisings against police brutality in the latter half of the 20th century and recent acts of police violence against african americans that has garnered widespread media attention no charges were filed against the officers involved in the locke shooting public condemnation of the incident led the city of minneapolis to institute a total ban on noknock warrants adams executive director of new justice project mn says he lived right across the street from the building where locke was killed when he learned of the police shooting that day he went outside to see what was going on community organizer rod adams speaks among a crowd of protesters gathered at minneapolis city hall firelight filmsabc news studios after i was out there about an hour or two they brought his body out later in the day i saw the bodycam footage and the image that just stuck with me was them being very very quiet as silent as possible putting that key in the door opening it and like literally snuffing this man out as he slept adams said more what to know about noknock warrants following amir lockes fatal shooting sound of the police also looks at contemporary efforts to confront and resolve the conflicts it seems to be two forms of policing in america one for white