DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Des Moines city council voted unanimously to delay the final vote on its anti-racial profiling ordinance. Instead, members approved its first reading last night during a virtual meeting.The ordinance requires police to commit itself to the unbiased, equitable treatment of all people. It also mentions racial profiling and traffic stops, prohibiting any stop motivated by how someone looks.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The state of Iowa is reporting 308 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths over the last 24 hours. There have been 606 deaths since the pandemic began.
IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – The University of Iowa Athletics Department announced its first COVID-19 case Monday. A total of 237 people, including student athletes, coaches and staff members, received coronavirus tests starting May 29.
CLERMONT, IA (IRN) – Two women from West Union were tubing on the Turkey River when they went over the Clermont Dam and got caught in the current and died. They were 45 and 64 years old.
WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – Police in Waterloo are investigating after a black man found the initials for the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan scrawled on his vehicle. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the initials KKK were written in a waxy substance on the passenger side, apparently while the vehicle was parked at the Baymont Inn in sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. No arrests have been made.
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