Amir Locke funeral set for Thursday; Sharpton to officiate

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A funeral service will be held Thursday in Minneapolis for Amir Locke, the 22-year-old Black man shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant earlier this month. The service will be held in the church that hosted Daunte Wright’s funeral last April, and the Rev. Al Sharpton — who also officiated Wright’s funeral — will preside. A SWAT team member shot Locke on Feb. 2 as officers were serving a search warrant in a St. Paul homicide case shortly before 7 a.m. His parents have said it appears from body-camera video that Locke was startled awake by officers. They’ve called his death an “execution” and called for a ban on no-knock warrants throughout Minnesota.