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Minnesota authorities have released police body camera footage of a raid on a man’s home after officers shot him dead last week, amid protests that officers were too aggressive while executing their search warrant.
The video, released Saturday by the Hennepin County Sheriff, shows officers involved in the “call and announce” search warrant at the home of 23-year-old Dolal Idd, hours after he was shot and killed in a clash with police on Wednesday.
The footage shows police officers arriving at Idd’s home around 2 am Thursday, banging on the door with drawn weapons and yelling, “Police! Search warrant! Let me see your hands! “
Once inside, the police rounded up more than half a dozen people, including children, women and a shirtless man, the video shows.
“We have children upstairs, we have children,” a woman is heard telling the police. “We have a daughter downstairs, a 19-year-old daughter.”
Another woman asks: “Can you tell us something about what is happening?”
One of the police officers responds that an officer will explain everything to him.
“He’ll come and talk to you in a second,” she says when the woman gets nervous.
The search came in the wake of Idd’s shooting death at a Minneapolis gas station around 5 p.m. Wednesday, after police said he first shot at officers.
Bodycam video of that incident shows Idd trying to get away from the police. He is cornered by three patrol vehicles and is seen holding an object that appears to be a weapon when the police open fire.
Police said a gun was later recovered at the scene.
But the subsequent raid on the house after Idd, who was a Somali, was killed, raised concerns among some community activists and elected officials.
“I don’t see any respect for family,” Minnesota state legislator Hodan Hassan told the nonprofit news site Sahan Journal. “I don’t see cultural sensitivity. And I don’t see compassion. ”
However, the sheriff’s office said it released images from the police raid to show that the officers behaved appropriately and humanely.
“Based on what he saw on the video, the sheriff commended his officers for their professionalism and says they acted appropriately, respectfully, and followed the HCSO procedure for high-risk warrants,” the office said in a statement.
Police did not recover any weapons in the home, but said there was probable cause to believe that there might be firearms in the home.
The Idd shooting was the first police death in Minneapolis since George Floyd’s death in police custody on May 25.
