no knock warrants

National american civil liberties union filing a lawsuit aimed at stopping law enforcement agencies from using "no knock warrants."

The comes after the procedure lead to the death of a black woman in louisville.

Tonight -- tyler druin -- takes a look at how often that practice is used in our area.

"i'm the minister of justice at our church so they there are a lot of issues - that iv'e had to address" one of those issues that concerns rev william payne an out spoken community activist - is no knock warrants- in march a kentucky woman was shot and killed by police - after plain clothed detectives forced entry into brianna taylors home - the story sparking national attention- the aclu filing suit to prevent this type of scenario from happening again - so we asked - what is a no knock warrant - "the officer or deputy does not have to knock or announce themselves" while rev payne says their is an obvious disconnect with law enforcement and the african american community - col.

Noah robinson with the vanderburgh county sheriff's office says no knock warrants are uncommon in our community - "no knock warrants are exceeding rare in this county, in fact i couldn't tell you the last time we executed a no knock warrant - they come with a major risk" col.

Robinson says agencies could use a no knock warrant when officers are in danger if they give notice - of if there is a threat evidence could be destroyed if they gave the suspect notice - rev payne is the director of the evansville social justice network - for years - the activist has been fighting for change - "no knock warrants is a permission slip for the police to violate your constitutional right" a beautiful situations happening right here in downtown evansville, the evansville police department coming down off the flood wall.

Patrolling on the mounted patrol- this little girl petting a horse for the first time- the police department working to fix the divide between law enforcement and the river-city" "there has been a disconnect between the e p d and the community for a long time" rev payne - and protesters - say they're all for positive policing - adding they were encouraged when mayor winneckee addressed the crowd at saturdays protests - "i'm good friends with billy bolin, i think the first step to this process is trying to figure out how to strengthening the relationship with some of the police officers who don't speak to people int he african american community - in evansville, tyler druin 44news - our coverage of the civil unrest continues