On a cold and gray Chicago morning.
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto.
Then one night, in desperation.
The young man breaks away.
He buys a gun, steals a car
He tries to run, but he doesn’t get far
And his mama cries.
As a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man
Facedown on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto.
“In the Ghetto” (originally titled “The Vicious Circle”) is a 1969 song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Mac Davis.
Amir Locke had no arrest records. He was a licensed gun owner and was not the subject of the no-knock warrant that Judge Peter Cahill signed. Judge Peter Cahill presided over the George Floyd / Derek Chauvin murder trial.
Lyrics from Bob Marley’s song supplement this report “Johnny Was A Good Man.” And Elvis Presley’s song, “In The Ghetto/” “The Vicious Cycle.”
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)–Two sources confirm to WCCO-TV that Judge Peter Cahill, who presided over the Derek Chauvin trial, signed off on the “no-knock” search warrant that ended in the fatal police shooting of Amir Locke on Wednesday morning.
The original search warrants remain sealed as they are part of an active homicide investigation, St. Paul police said on Friday evening.