♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, bail denied. new revelations as the alleged new york city subway shooter appears for the first time in court. plus no-knock ban? 22-year-old amir locke shot and killed by the minneapolis police in a botched raid. >> if he looked like that officer, i believe that amir would still be here. >> but no charges filed against the officers. >> we would want them to look at the circumstance through the eyes of the victim and not just through the eyes of the officer. >> now the national movement to stop this controversial police practice. >> the only thing in my mind was, i hope they don't shoot me. i was praying that i didn't die

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good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight, the death of 22-year-old amir locke during a controversial no-knock warrant has ignited calls across the country for reform. but first, frank james. the man charged with opening fire in a crowded subway car in brooklyn two days ago made his first court appearance today. the 62-year-old charged with conducting a violent attack against a mass transportation system making no comments, except that he understood the charges. he was ordered to remain in federal custody without bail. federal prosecutors called the attack entirely premeditated and carefully planned, saying it terrorized the entire city. they also suggested he had the means to carry out more attacks, noting that he had ammunition and other gun-related items in a philadelphia storage unit. one of the public defenders now representing james has asked for him to receive psychiatric attention. and is causing everyone against

a rush to judgment. now our next story, no-knock raids date back decades but drew outrage after the death of bredebrbreonna taylor. the death of amir locke, who died earlier this year, his parents turning pain into purpose. >> as his mother, i'm still in disbelief. i don't even talk about amir in the past tense. i talk about him like he's still here. >> reporter: 71 days and the pain is still raw for karen wells and andre locke, 71 days since police shot and killed their son, amir, in a botched raid. >> this is not a sign of weakness, i'm tearing up for my boy because i loved him unconditionally. i speak out because it's important that it doesn't happen to anyone else. enough is enough. >> reporter: 22-year-old amir locke's death shook the nation. an innocent young black man killed as police executed a

controversial no knock search warrant. >> this pain will never go away. it's a pain that you can't explain. sometimes i don't even know if my heart is beating. i have to feel my chest to make sure it's still beating. it's not fair. >> reporter: on february 2nd, 2022, minneapolis police were executing the warrant at the home of amir locke's cousin who he was staying with. police body camera footage shows -- >> police, search warrant! >> reporter: within seconds of entering the apartment, officer mark hanneman fired multiple shots at locke. locke had been sleeping on the couch. the footage showing him holding a gun. but locke was not named in the warrant, he was not a person of interest in the homicide investigation police were working, and he legally owned that gun he was holding. >> it hit me in my stomach. my boy.

>> karen, your eyes have their own language. as andre spoke, i saw deep sadness, i saw deep anger. >> just knowing what kind of person our son was, it's not fair. he should still be here now. i keep asking god, why? why did you take my baby? i don't even pray anymore. i haven't prayed since he's been gone. and i'm a spiritual person. because i'm angry. i want answers. i want justice. >> reporter: for more than two months, these parents hoped police would be held criminally responsible for the botched raid. >> police, search warrant! >> reporter: until last week. >> it would be unethical for us to file charges for a case in which we know that we will not be able to prevail because the law does not support the charges. and yet a loving, promising young man is dead. >> reporter: minnesota attorney

general keith ellison announced that no charges would be filed against any of the officers involved in the shooting, including the man who pulled the trigger, officer hanneman. >> i was not disappointed. i told them i was disgusted with the decision. there's something wrong with that officer. that's what i'm going to say now. speaking to you directly, there's something wrong with you. because you chose to kill our son that day. you had no right to do that. >> reporter: officer hanneman has said that he feared for his and his teammates' lives. >> accountability and transparency is very important. just accept that you messed up. >> reporter: experts say no-knock warrants are commonly issued across the country and have been for decades. >> the police go to a magistrate or a judge and they say there are specific circumstances in this situation to justify breaking into this private residence in a surprise fashion. they round the people up and handcuff them. and then, and this is key,

conduct a search for possible evidence in that residence. >> reporter: no-knock warrants were first introduced with president nixon's war on drugs in the 1970s. but it wasn't until ronald reagan's presidency that they became a widespread practice. defenders of no-knock warrants say these kind of raids allow law enforcement to better control their environment and preserve evidence. the practice has increased dramatically. >> the benefits of a no-knock raid, as police agencies might tout, involves fighting drug -- the drug problem. they're unequivocally impacting communities of color. >> reporter: an estimated 60,000 no knock or quick-knock warrants happen every year. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor. >> reporter: one of the most high-profile examples, breonna taylor killed in louisville,

kentucky. it was part of a narcotics investigation. no drugs were found in her home. according to a "new york times" investigation, 81 civilians and 13 officers died from forced entry warrant raids between 2010 and 2016. >> the police are using a really high-risk tactic. particularly today, with so many households being armed legally, with their own personal protection. >> they created the situation. the no-knock warrant needs to be out of here. we need to get rid of it. >> when i first saw the story of amir, it just took me back to the night that the police were in my home. >> reporter: angenette young knows the perils of a police raid gone wrong. she survived one. >> i keep telling you, you've got the wrong place! >> lots of guns. big guns. strobes, lights. yelling at me, you know.

lots of chaos. i'll never be the same anymore because of february 21st, 2019. >> reporter: the chicago social worker stood naked for more than ten minutes, handcuffed and terrified for her life, as several male officers barged in unannounced. but they were at the wrong home. >> the only thing in my mind was, i hope they don't shoot me. i was praying that i didn't die that night. >> reporter: the city of chicago paid young $2.9 million in a settlement over the incident. >> the city of chicago would not meet my demands, which were for change. i never wanted the money. i was asking for officers to be fired. there is no amount of money that can heal the trauma or even change the experience that i had. >> reporter: last year, five chicago city councilmembers introduced the anjenette young

ordinance banning no-knock warrants and set standards. 22 states and 20 cities have introduced bills banning or limiting no-knock warrants. four states have banned the practice together. minnesota congressman ilhan omar met with amir locke's parents in person for the first time. what was your sense of them? >> just incredible. as a mom, i can't imagine how i would be feeling if this trage >> reporter: omar wrote and introduced a bill called "the amir locke end deadly no-knock warrants act" last month. >> what it does is it stops any quick-knock warrants being issued. it strictly limits drug-related no knock warrants being issued. it eliminates nighttime knocks. what we ultimately hope to do with this legislation is save lives. >> some in law enforcement,

experts, who say no-knock warrants play a critical role in law enforcement, and they can help avoid violence and preserve evidence. what do you say to those forces? >> i'm not denying that there are severe cases where it might be necessary to save a life. but i also want to make sure that we are not finding ourselves using no-knock warrants in cases where there was no life to save, but there was a life to take. >> reporter: with the congress that failed to pass police reform even after george floyd's murder, the chances of federal action seem slim. but locally, just last week, minneapolis mayor jacob frey enacted a ban on no-knock warrants. locke's parents say it's a start. >> justice will prevail. >> reporter: for now the couple is dedicated to continuing their son's mission, reaching out to his generation, to the company he formed months before he was killed, called "saving the

youth." >> we have to speak for amir. he can't speak for himself anymore, he no longer has a voice. >> this was a young man who understood the world that he lived in. he wasn't a bystander to the world that he lived in. >> that's how i find a sense of comfort, a small sense of comfort, is knowing this will help change lives. knowing that god has something to do with it. >> i do believe that his life had a bigger purpose than a lot of people can only ever imagine. >> his name will be in the law books, and he'll change lives. he'll save lives. and coming up, "queer eye" star jonathan van ness revealing his dark times and how he overcame them. ded to be here. ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®.

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♪ "queer eye" star jonathan van ness had lots of ups and downs on his road to stash come. overcoming drug addiction, a serious medical diagnosis. he's now sharing those details, hoping to inspire others. here's abc's janai norman. ♪ >> reporter: jonathan van ness knows how to make an entrance, and the crowd is head over heels. [ cheers and applause ] the celebrity, hairstylist, performer, and host performing at new york city's radio hall. outfitted in his signature look. flowing hair and a fabulous dress.

jvn is busting the gender binary in style. how did you get comfortable? forget your box, i'm not fitting into your box, this is exactly where i should be and i don't need you to accept it or understand it, just let me be. >> yeah, i -- i don't know, i mean -- i look great in a dress. >> you do. >> i look great in a beard. >> yes, you do. >> i don't know, when it looks good, when it works -- >> it's hard when you're this fabulous. >> and i am. >> reporter: van ness was a breakout star as the hair and makeup expert on the reboot of the hit netflix show "queer eye." >> i want you to commit to this. best friend, don't let best friends do what? >> use vodka. >> reporter: famous for his tongue and cheek sense of humor and giving people the confidence to look their best -- >> you are beautiful, and you're beautiful on the outside, you're beautiful on the inside. and you deserve to give back to yourself. >> reporter: building a brand based on style, sass, and

sincerity. >> i'm also trying to be, like this nonbinary, hiv positive, like j. lo in the sense that i'm a multi-faceted artistic queen. so sometimes i don't stop long enough to turn around and be like, did i just do all that? >> yeah. >> reporter: now sharing a life full of both laughter and loss in a new collection of essays, "love that story." >> this book felt like an opportunity for me to explore difficult conversations and kind of leave it out there. >> reporter: alongside his signature humor, the book delves deep into the darker side of jonathan's story in the hope it can help others who are struggling. >> i want to read a quote where you wrote in the book, "it took surviving sexual abuse, meth addiction, and an hiv diagnosis for me to start to listen to that little jonathan inside of me and take care of him, to reconnect with all the goals he had for his future self." >> it feels real. it feels raw. i want people to be able to take what i'm sharing and use it for good in their own life.

>> reporter: last month, jonathan turned 35, marking nearly one-third of his life lived with the diagnosis of hiv. he made his status public in 2019 and has been a passionate advocate for sexual health. thinking back through the last ten years of that diagnosis and being open about it and sharing it, what has that been like for you? >> it's been a journey. i wouldn't know i was h ichlt vcv positive in the sense of, take a pill a day, see a doctor -- for the amount of drugs i did, why do i look this cute? >> talk to me about the stigma. >> there's a lot of hiv stigma, there's a lot of ignorance, there's a lot of people who don't understand. people don't realize hiv is their issue, the reality is it's community health, it is everybody's issue. >> reporter: van ness detailing the toll of his past addiction to methamphetamine. >> there were so many times

when, especially like the day after a relapse, or just -- like after something would happen i would just think, oh my god, i'm never going to get through this, i'm never -- because there was times where i would get to, like, a year, have a relapse.pg relapse. and you just feel like you're never going to get through it. and you actually can. like, i am so much more than what my darkest moments were. >> reporter: he's so sober from hard drugs for years, and now van ness is moving onwards. what's keeping him grounded are his roots, literally. the expert stylist starting his own hair care line jvn hair. >> it's a really good tip for when you want volume on hair but you still want that lift. flip your hair over. let's run away from the mirror because we're so scared, because we're so hot. >> i think for me what was always my north star was being passionate about the art that i

was doing. and art, which for me was through hairdressing, saved me. >> reporter: these days, van ness is shining in the spotlight. though he knows fame isn't everything. >> when i was trying to survive meth addiction, when i was trying to, like, deal with my hiv diagnosis, i wasn't like, let me just make it six months clean so i can land a netflix show. like, i was just trying to not relapse, not die. so much what was i do in my professional life for me personally is uncharted territory. so i have to give myself grace, knowing that i'm doing the best that i can. >> reporter: for van ness, the future is still a blank page. but wherever he goes, it will be with self-forgiveness, self-acceptance, and grace. going back to the quote here about your inner little jonathan and what his goals were, what were his goals? >> i think from the time i was, like, 8, 9 years old, i remember thinking, like, if i can ever

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