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Iowa House sends bill raising penalties for protest-related crimes to Gov. Kim Reynolds Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register Gov. Reynolds will introduce a bill to protect law enforcement and ban racial profiling What to watch next Replay Video UP NEXT A bill that would give police officers stronger immunity from lawsuits and increase the penalties for some protest-related offenses is headed to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk. The Iowa House of Representatives gave final passage to the wide-ranging criminal justice bill, Senate File 342, with a 56-35 vote Tuesday evening. The I...

Iowa House sends bill raising penalties for protest-related crimes to Gov. Kim Reynolds Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register Gov. Reynolds will introduce a bill to protect law enforcement and ban racial profiling What to watch next Replay Video UP NEXT A bill that would give police officers stronger immunity from lawsuits and increase the penalties for some protest-related offenses is headed to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk. The Iowa House of Representatives gave final passage to the wide-ranging criminal justice bill, Senate File 342, with a 56-35 vote Tuesday evening. The I...

Black Lives Matter protesters in Iowa found a calling last summer — and faced consequences Tyler Kingkade © Provided by NBC News Matè Muhammad said he knew something big was rising: As protests unfurled across the country following George Floyd's murder last May, hundreds of people were also flooding the streets of Des Moines, Iowa, his hometown. From Chicago, where he lived at the time, Muhammad watched livefeeds of protesters in Des Moines squaring off against police in riot gear. Some smashed windows and threw water bottles. Crowds ran from tear gas and pepper spray. T...

Des Moines Register Not even Deb Scholten is immune to the political speculation swirling around potential 2022 candidates like her son J.D. “Dad thinks you are going to run for Senate. Are you?” she texted him recently, getting right to the point. J.D. Scholten, a Democrat who lost to Republican Randy Feenstra in the 2020 4th District congressional race, tweeted a screenshot of the text with a facepalm emoji.  It's not that he's not thinking about it. It's just that he's trying to keep his options wide open and he's not yet sure whether he even wants to run. Among the paths he's consi...

Listeners from around Iowa also called or emailed their thoughts about what these guilty verdicts mean for the state and country moving forward. Turé Morrow, founder of We Are CR. Guests: Justyn Lewis, president and founder of Des Moines Selma, a non-profit focused on social justice and government accountability for Black Lives Turé Morrow, founder, We Are CR, father and community activist based in Cedar Rapids Keli Gosch, community organizer, small-business owner based in Cresco Athena Gilbraith, midwest organizer for Swing Left, secretary of the Iowa Democratic Black Caucus, community o...