Police throw multiple rounds of tear gas into crowd of protesters. According to the reporters, mace was also used on the crowd, although this was not caught on video. After the first round of tear gas is thrown, the crowd disperses, however the police continue to throw more canisters for at least 10-15 minutes longer. While there was some violence earlier in the evening, according to KCCI, the protesters were peaceful before the canisters were thrown.
tags: tear-gas, mace, spray, protester
id: ia-desmoines-2
Links
Recorded from inside a car, camera pans to surroundings, a woman's hand in the car with a broken finger, and to a police truck nearby. Description says "'rubber bullets' tear gas was also dispersed but this person was hit by a rubber bullet for sure." A woman's phone is destroyed by a police round.
tags: rubber-bullet, tear-gas, shoot, property-destruction, bystander
id: ia-desmoines-3
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/gxlfdo/police_truck_shoots_at_cars_hitting_mother_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
- https://www.tiktok.com/@jakegracey/video/6834936818799004934?source=h5_m
- Location via Google Street View
Footage shows peaceful protesters chanting in the street. Around 1 minute, a tight group of police begins launching tear gas and pepper-spraying indiscriminately. Police advance as protesters flee. Footage shows numerous officers using shields and batons to strike a protester lying on the street. In addition, an officer shoves the filmer, who is standing on the sidewalk.
tags: tear-gas, pepper-spray, spray, protester, beat, strike, shield, baton, shove
id: ia-desmoines-11
Links
- https://www.facebook.com/andre.develliott.9/videos/260083008434875/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/desmoines/comments/gxkoii/some_additional_footage_from_saturday_night/
A reporter from the Des Moines Register is shown sitting on the ground zip-tied with another protester in front of a police officer. In the news article, the reporter indicates she was pepper sprayed in the face, and that she identified herself as a member of the press.
tags: journalist, arrest, pepper-spray, spray, zip-tie
id: ia-desmoines-7
Links
- https://twitter.com/RachelSB/status/1267260438900867074
- https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/05/31/register-reporter-arrested-while-covering-protest/5304560002/
Footage shows police and peaceful protesters on opposite sides of an active street. As some protesters step into the street, police fire gas. The filmer states it is tear gas, but a comment states that it is smoke. Regardless, police catch multiple bystander cars in the gas, forcing them to move.
tags: protester, bystander, gas
id: ia-desmoines-12
Links
Police pepper spray Des Moines Register reporter even as she repeatedly announced herself as press | June 1st
Reporter shouts "I'm press! I'm press! I'm going! I'm with the Des Moines Register" repeatedly as she tries to walk away from police. An officer quickly approaches her and pepper sprays her in the eye.
tags: journalist, pepper-spray, spray
id: ia-desmoines-4
Links
- https://twitter.com/katie_akin/status/1267694434847731713
- https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/06/02/des-moines-police-pepper-spray-journalist-iowa-george-floyd-protest-des-moines-register-reporter/3126478001/
Police use or threaten to use pepper-spray in an elevator on apartment residents trying to go home | (believed to be) June 2nd
Police use or threaten to use pepper-spray in what appears to be a private residence apartment elevator. The people keep saying things like "we are just trying to go home" and "we live here". Some get pulled out of the elevator while others leave on their own. It appears they are all being arrested as the video ends.
tags: threaten, arrest, shove, pepper-spray, spray, bystander
id: ia-desmoines-1
Links
Police arrest a Black cyclist at a BLM supply drop-off event. The cyclist, with a Guy Fawkes mask, stands in the middle of a parking lot as two police officers handcuff him and pull him into their vehicle. After questioning him, they release him saying they “got the wrong guy".
tags: arrest, racial-profiling, protester
id: ia-desmoines-6
Links
Armed police raid gay bar helping wounded Black Lives Matter protesters on the first day of Pride Month | June 5th
"Des Moines police approached The Blazing Saddle, a gay bar in Des Moines’ East Village neighborhood, and searched the premises — apparently without a warrant. Video from a security camera made public on Facebook shows officers in riot gear converging suddenly on the bar at approximately 11:45 p.m. and detaining those gathered outside." - The Iowa Inquirer
tags: arrest, lgbtq+, protester
id: ia-desmoines-5
Links
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/05/police-raid-blazing-saddle-des-moines-iowa-black-lives-matter-stonewall/?fbclid=IwAR20SUPSke3O_U2jqXaicl3dOcKwKPYlG5eOc131oao76Z2rEXXz0-ASORQ
- http://iowainformer.com/politics/2020/06/des-moines-gay-bar-raided-amid-black-lives-matter-protests-as-pride-month-begins/
- https://twitter.com/aaronpcalvin/status/1268708285517004801
- Location via Google Street View
- https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1182620968746799&id=100009967212544
Footage shows two protesters being arrested. Four police are making the arrests, two kneeling on each protester. A woman filming is harassed by another officer.
tags: arrest, knee, abuse-of-power, protester
id: ia-desmoines-10
Links
First person footage of a protest shows police forcing protesters down a sidewalk. It is unclear why police determined protesters could not continue to protest peacefully at the point of the sidewalk.
Police use their shields to shove protesters along. Footage is dark and a little unclear, but it appears that around 2 minutes, the filmer and her sisters are pepper-sprayed. They scream in pain and the filmer states repeatedly that she cannot see. The filmer then loses track of her sisters. She finds one family member around 4 minutes, who shows clear signs of having been pepper sprayed.
The filmer and her sister attempted to regroup and find their third family member, but police continued to shove them along.
Around 4:15 a protester is shoved to the ground. She can be heard screaming, "My leg, my leg."
After this, footage cuts to a shot of the filmer turns the camera on herself and her eyes are watering, showing clear indication of pepper spray. It is unclear if this is from the first round of pepper spray or she has been sprayed a second time. Medics attempt to assist her but are forced to continue marching while doing so. Around 7 minutes, medics help her into a car. She is treated for the duration of the footage.
Additional links from a reporter discuss the tactics used by police to intimidate and harass protesters. They also capture the aftermath of the pepper-spraying.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, shove, shield, push, child, protester
id: ia-desmoines-9
Links
- https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBw5mKxjHPq/
- https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2020/06/23/police-used-aggressive-kettling-tactics-des-moines-protesters-say/3241518001/
- https://twitter.com/andreamsahouri/status/1275281913750618113
- https://twitter.com/andreamsahouri/status/1275279366440837126
- Reporter confirms pepper spray. States one victim was a minor
Police arrest 17 people during a peaceful protest for Black Lives Matter at the State Capitol | July 1st
Black Lives Matter advocates gathered at the Capitol to lobby for the governor to sign an executive order restoring felon voting rights by Saturday, July 4.
White protesters were inside the Capitol, police identified some of them claimed to have vandalized police car in the past, and arrests were made inside the Capitol for those individuals. However, the arrested individuals declined the allegations. The protesters followed the police outside the Capitol, and one of the protesters blocked their path and later the crowd tried to pull the arrestees from the custody of the police officers. That is when more crowds and police started to get involved. Police used pepper spray to help disperse the crowd and arrested 17 people, including two juveniles.
tags: spray, pepper-spray, tackle, beat, arrest, child, protester
id: ia-desmoines-8
Links
- Tweet by local reporter showing video of protesters getting pushed around by police
- Local news report on the incident by Des Moines Register
- Local news report on the incident by KCRG (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
- Local news report on the incident by KCCI (Des Moines, Iowa)
Iowa State Police use tear gas & flashbangs against crowd of civilians attempting to enter I-80 and later against Iowa City EMS. | June 3rd
State police shoot tear gas into, and deploy flashbangs against, a crowd of peaceful protesters attempting to enter I-80. Some protesters stumble and fall as they try to flee.
Reportedly, one protester suffered seizures as a result of a flashbang, and an ambulance was called to the scene.
Police continued to deploy tear gas and flashbangs in the area where Iowa city EMT's were working (see flashing white lights in cloud of gas, 5th link). Unclear if they were aware of EMS presence.
According to the mayor, Iowa State Patrol was in command of the scene (though some Iowa City Police were present) and it was determined that letting the protest onto I-80 was too dangerous.
tags: tear-gas, protester, stun-grenade, medic
id: ia-iowacity-1
Links
- https://twitter.com/DJPAIMON/status/1268399580753858561
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IowaCity/comments/gwx86v/another_angle_of_the_police_firing_upon_us/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IowaCity/comments/gwml8n/state_police_gassing_citizens/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IowaCity/comments/gwaqzx/from_a_facebook_livestreamseems_like_peaceful/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IowaCity/comments/gwc763/iowa_city_pd_gassed_and_flashbanged_their_own/