It's odd that the Breonna Taylor story spurred national outrage while Amir Locke's story seems to have been largely ignored.
Once again, if you're somebody who's actually claiming that systemic racism is a thing, you're falling flat on you face by not talking about injustices that are actually systemic.
Amir is dead because police shot him in his own home. Still, under the law, the shooting was clean because the cops had a no knock warrant in relation to a murder investigation. Amir was never a suspect. Amir was just sleeping on a family member's couch. Still, Amir had a gun for self-defense, he was woken up and confused about these armed people shouting, and pointed his gun in the direction of the officer who shot him. Amir was trying to defend his life and the officer was trying to defend his own life.
The problem is the fucking law and the decisions of the judges who authorize no knock raids, not the cops.
There are cases for no knock raids. For instance, if there's an active hostage situation. Still, most no knock raids have historically been for drug busts in order to prevent suspects from flushing the evidence. That's another problem -- we need to end the war on drugs.
There was no reason why this needed to be a no knock raid and we should restrict the use of such raids to a very small window.