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Democratic Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller meets Dec. 30, 2019, with journalists in his office in the Hoover State Office Building in Des Moines. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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When cops pulled over Marquis Jones for loud music one afternoon in October 2017, the 27-year-old Black man got out of his car and ran.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) When cops pulled over Marquis Jones for loud music one sunny afternoon in October 2017, the 27-year-old Black man got out of his car and ran.
Jones escaped one officer’s tackle and carried a handgun as he fled through a neighborhood in Burlington, Iowa. Police yelled for him to drop his weapon before Officer Chris Chiprez fired seven times, missing Jones. Jones ditched the gun, ran down an alley and into a backyard, and laid on the ground as Chiprez pursued.
Chiprez said he shot and killed Jones after he started to rise and made a hand movement. Relatives say Jones, a father of five, was trying to surrender.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) When cops pulled over Marquis Jones for loud music one sunny afternoon in October 2017, the 27-year-old Black man got out of his car and ran.Jones escaped one officer’