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Feb 4 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
The city has released body camera footage from yesterday's police killing of #AmirLocke during a no-knock warrant. Video shows police entering & kicking a couch that Locke was sleeping on. Locke rolled over & grabbed a gun & was killed. [CONTENT WARNING]
The video released tonight by the city of Minneapolis has been processed to blur the faces of MPD officers. It shows the killing of #AmirLocke from one angle among several that should exist if the body cameras were all working correctly.
In #AmirLocke's last moments he was bundled in a blanked on the couch - another MPD officer to the immediate right and one in the kitchen may reveal different details if their body cameras were active.
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The video as edited, has two slowed-down sequences and then a seemingly 100% speed replay. However the last replay cuts out more quickly than the first two replays (caps of the last frames from all 3 playthrus)
See our #AmirLocke thread for more details on this tragic police killing 🧵⬇️
After release of video, Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-MN62) describes the killing of #AmirLocke as a "break-in and murder"
Minneapolis Ward 10 city council member Aisha Chughtai describes #AmirLocke's killing as "The murder of yet another young Black man" in a thread tonight
The police killing of #AmirLocke is the third in Minnesota in a span of 66 days. unicornriot.ninja/2022/minnesota…
The footage from the pre-dawn no-knock warrant that ended with MPD Officer Mark Hanneman killing #AmirLocke was released yesterday. [Content Warning] unicornriot.ninja/2022/body-came…

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Feb 3
NEW: A man named by the cmty as Amir Locke was killed by MPD serving a warrant on Feb 2. Police say they killed him b/c he was armed. His family says he wasn't named on warrant, that he had a permit to carry & was startled by the pre-dawn police intrusion.
unicornriot.ninja/2022/minnesota…
Minnesota Police Kill Man Wednesday Morning - Marking Their Third Black Victim in 66 Days

Story > unicornriot.ninja/2022/minnesota… <
Amir Locke, who is said to be around 24 y/o, was killed by Mark Hanneman, an MPD SWAT officer while police were executing an early morning no-knock search warrant on February 2.

The killing occurred at the Bolero Flats Apartment Homes on the 7th floor. 🧵
unicornriot.ninja/2022/minnesota…
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Jan 29
A Minneapolis Police intelligence presentation on 'Political Extremists - Antifa/Boogaloo' lists 14 'antifa' Twitter accounts officers are encouraged to surveil - including activists never arrested or charged w crimes.

No 'Boogaloo' accounts are listed.

unicornriot.ninja/2022/mpd-polit…
The MPD presentation seems to downplay the nature of the threat posed by Boogaloo adherents, describing the generally far-right and white supremacist movement as apolitical.

It also falsely claims that 'antifa' has a national headquarters and an official accreditation process.
MPD's Twitter account has previously retweeted Project Veritas' false claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar committing election fraud.

This presentation suggests officers continue to use their official powers to exert political influences beyond their conventional crime fighting duties.
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Jan 26
In an unprecedented move, the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice has ruled to suspend the medical license of Dr. Todd Leonard & fine him $30K after investigations into in-custody deaths. Leonard owns MEnD Correctional Care that provides medical care to dozens of Minnesota jails.
The suspension of Dr. Leonard's license is directly related to the 2018 death of Hardel Sherrell in Beltrami County Jail. Unicorn Riot was first to release jail footage of Sherrell's last days alongside an exclusive interview w/ his mother, Del Shea Perry. unicornriot.ninja/2019/harrowing…
Shortly after Hardel Sherrell died, a whistleblowing nurse (who turned out to be working w/ MEnD) filed complaints about Dr. Todd Leonard stating pleas for getting Sherrell proper medical care were ignored & Dr.'s saying Sherrell was ‘faking’ his illness. unicornriot.ninja/2020/whistlebl…
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Jan 24
NEW: Patriot Front Leaks Reveal Group’s Ideology: “Jews attack all things good in this world”

unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-f…

A leak of the "nationalist" group's chat server used for vetting membership applicants shows that it requires explicitly Nazi beliefs in order to join.
Patriot Front masks neo-nazism behind patriotism and vague dog whistles about “globalists” and the “degeneration” of America’s “founding stock.”

Their intake interview notes are much more direct and honest, embracing concepts like the 'JQ' ("Jewish Question") & holocaust denial. ImageImageImageImage
One applicant accepted into Patriot Front told his interviewers he also wanted to join Atomwaffen, a neo-nazi terror group that worships Charles Manson and is tied to at least five murders in the US.
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Jan 23
THREAD: Yesterday we released a massive data leak from inside Patriot Front, currently believed to be the largest and most active neo-nazi organization in the USA. unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-f…

Here's some of what we learned:
Patriot Front has around 220-230 members according to leader Thomas Rousseau, who is "absolutely desperate for new people": discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/rocket-chat/ro…

PF's roster includes teens in HS as well as former members of other nazi groups like Identity Evropa & Traditionalist Worker Party. Image
The main information of public concern in the leak surrounds PF's leadership organizing nationwide defacement of murals and monuments to social justice and civil rights - acts deliberately planned to psychologically intimidate and unsettle racially diverse communities.
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Jan 22
During the annual anti-choice 'March for Life' event Friday in D.C., neo-Nazi org Patriot Front showed up with about 30 members escorted by police. Earlier this month, we published a story highlighting how right-wing and republican attacks on abortion are escalating.
On October 28, 2021, the exterior electrical box of the sole abortion clinic in Toledo, #Ohio was set on fire. The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department investigation ruled it arson and found traces of an accelerant.
unicornriot.ninja/2022/64276/
Also in Ohio, in an attempt to outlaw all abortions, House Bill 480 was introduced on November 2, 2021 to protect “unborn persons,” making it the most extreme bill to move through a state’s legislature in the recent string of bans popping up across the country.
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