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Mr. Hanneman joined the department in 2015 and the SWAT team in 2020, according to department records. He has had three previous complaints in his file, all of which were closed without discipline.

In the wake of national outcry over the murder of Mr. Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Mayor Jacob Frey issued a new policy in 2020 requiring officers executing no-knock warrants to announce their presence and purpose before they enter, except for extreme circumstances. Before the policy, the department executed 139 no-knock warrants per year, according to the mayor’s office.

This year, the number of no-knock warrants is already on track to reach about the same number: 11 have been issued so far this year.

“It’s become clear that no-knock warrants continue to be overly sought by the Minneapolis Police Department and overly granted,” Mr. Storms said in an interview.

He went on to add that “the entire country learned the lessons of the danger of no-knock warrants via the tragic death of Breonna Taylor,” referring to the Black medical worker who was fatally shot by the police in Louisville, Ky., in 2020 during a no-knock search. “Minneapolis had a chance to learn from that.”

Mr. Storms also said that the video shows that Mr. Locke’s finger was not on the trigger when he was shot, but rather on the barrel, and that the gun was pointed down. At the news conference on Thursday, Ms. Huffman said that the officer who shot Mr. Locke was outside the frame of the video but in the “direction of that barrel emerging from the blanket.”

“It’s very clear that when Amir grabbed the gun he grabbed it in such a manner that he did not know whether or not he would shoot,” Mr. Storms said. “Amir utilized good trigger discipline and the officer didn’t.”