State attorney sues DMPD over arrest during 2020 protests
BPC Staff Jul 12, 2022 | 4:06 pm
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80 wordsAll Latest News, Government Policy and Law, Statewide NewsDes Moines Register: The latest lawsuit accusing Des Moines police of using unnecessary and unlawful force during protests in 2020 comes from another law enforcement official: an assistant Iowa attorney general. Paxton Williams, who represents the state in income and tax cases as an attorney for the revenue division in the attorney general’s office, is suing the city, the police department and multiple officers for what he says were their actions against him on the night of June 1, 2020.