TheAltWorld Minneapolis Activists Refute ‘Ridiculous’ Defense of Cops Who Shot Amir Locke
- Rania Khalek
- Sunday 13 Feb 22
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22-year-old Amir Locke was shot to death by police in the early morning in his apartment in Minneapolis on February 2, 2022, and protests have erupted nationwide. Mayor Jacob Frey held a press conference and activist and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong interrupted with demands from the community. She and Michelle Gross, president of Communities Against Police Brutality, discuss the horrendous murder and the community’s reaction.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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