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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
By Erin Jordan of The Gazette and Jared Strong of Carroll Times Herald
Iowa State Patrol Trooper Bob Conrad issues a warning for speeding April 21, 2014, to a motorist on Highway 30 west of Cedar Rapids. Iowa troopers stop about 150,000 motorists a year. (Photo courtesy of The Gazette)
State Patrol lags behind roughly 100 Iowa law enforcement agencies that already have body cameras, shown to reduce use-of-force incidents and citizen complaints against police
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This article is the first in a series called In Focus that will examine the use of police body cameras and access to police video in Iowa.
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State troopers arrested an 18-year-old activist at the Iowa Capitol Thursday as a group rallied against proposed legislation that would increase qualified immunity for law enforcement officers and heighten penalties for some protest-related offenses.
While the group demonstrated on the first floor of the Capitol early Thursday afternoon, state troopers arrested Josie Mulvihill, of Des Moines, charging her with assaulting a police officer, a serious misdemeanor.
Sgt. Alex Dinkla, a spokesperson with the Iowa State Patrol, said Thursday afternoon that he was still gathering information on the incident.
Mulvihill declined to comment on her arrest before she spoke to an attorney, but she showed a Register reporter the criminal complaint against her later Thursday.