ST. PAUL, Minn. – Legislation approved by the House Public Safety Committee would ban no-knock search warrants in Minnesota.
The bill is in response to the Minneapolis police killing of 27-year-old Amir Locke last February.
Officers used a no-knock warrant to enter a downtown apartment and fatally shot Locke while he was on a couch holding a gun.
Rep. Brion Curran said that Minnesotans have a constitutional right to privacy, and to defend themselves in their home, which no-knock warrants unnecessarily infringe upon.