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Months after a federal judge dismissed charges in an Iowa City man s case saying it amounted to a story of walking while Black , Chris Kelly filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Iowa City and Johnson County officials, accusing them of racial profiling and unlawful stop, among other charges, tied to his December 2019 arrest.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against two named police officers, an assistant Johnson County attorney, unidentified officers who participated in the arrest, the City of Iowa City, Johnson County and unidentified employees from those municipalities.
IOWA CITY - A man arrested by Iowa City police in a case condemned by a federal judge as walking while Black has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the city, Johnson County, the arresting officers and an assistant county attorney involved in the arrest.