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Black Lives Matter clashes with police at Iowa Capitol

Updated: April 9, 2021 at 7:57 pm EST  See Comments

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DES MOINES, Iowa, April 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – While the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol continues to feature prominently in national media narratives, considerably less national attention has been devoted to violence breaking out Thursday between Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and police in the Iowa State Capitol.

The Des Moines Register reported that the activists were there to protest proposed legislation that would increase qualified immunity for police officers as well as penalties for certain protest-related offenses. Video shows activists, some of whom had their faces fully covered while others laid on the floor of the capitol building, screaming about the case of Minneapolis man George Floyd, whose death last year in a police altercation sparked a wave of BLM violence and protests that spanned the summer of 2020.

Happening Now: BLM at the Iowa State Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/GnS6EgFmjf

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One video shows a woman with a sign approaching two officers. The words they exchanged are inaudible, but as they start walking toward the crowd another woman holding the camera

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