In her first argument session as a member of the New York Court of Appeals, Justice Shirley Troutman sharply questioned an upstate city’s attempt to avoid a $3 million civil judgment in the case of an unarmed man who was shot by police executing a “no-knock” search warrant.

The issue, which has become a key pillar of a national movement centered on racial justice and law enforcement, landed before the state high court Tuesday in Albany, as protests continued in Minneapolis after a 22-year-old man was killed last week by officers utilizing the same tactic.