Minnesota authorities released police bodycam footage of a raid on a man’s home after he was shot by officers last week amid outrage that the police were too aggressive in carrying out their search warrant.
The video, released Saturday by the Hennepin County sheriff, shows agents involved in the “knock and announce” search warrant at the home of Dolal Idd, 23, just hours after he was shot and killed in a confrontation with police Wednesday.
The footage shows officers arriving at Idd around 2am on Thursday, pounding on the door with guns drawn and shouting, “Police! Search warrant! Show me your hands! “
Once inside, police gather more than half a dozen people, including children, women and a man with his shirt off, the video shows.
“We have children upstairs, we have children,” a woman hears against the police. “We have a daughter downstairs, a 19-year-old daughter.”
Another woman asks, “Can you tell us about what’s going on?”
One of the officers replies that an officer will explain everything.
“He’s coming to talk to you in a minute,” he says when the woman gets irritated.
The search came after Idd’s death at a Minneapolis gas station around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday – after police said he shot at cops first.
Bodycam video of that incident shows Idd trying to drive away from the police. He is cornered by three patrol vehicles and is seen with an object that appears to be a rifle when the police open fire.
Police said a gun was later found on the spot.
But the subsequent raid on the house after Idd, who was Somali, was shot raised concern among some community activists and elected officials.
“I don’t see any respect for the family,” Minnesota state legislator Hodan Hassan told the nonprofit news site Sahan Journal. “I don’t see any cultural sensitivity. And I don’t see any compassion. ”
However, the sheriff’s office said it released footage of the police raid to show that the officers were acting correctly and humanely.
“Based on watching the video, the sheriff praised his deputies for their professionalism and said they acted appropriately, respectfully and followed the HCSO process for high-risk orders,” the agency said in a press release.
Police did not find any weapons in the house, but said there were likely grounds to believe that there may be firearms in the house.
The Idd shooting was the first police-implicated death in Minneapolis since the death of George Floyd in custody on May 25.