By Elahe Izadi
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Prosecutors in Iowa began their case Monday against a Des Moines Register reporter arrested during racial justice protests last summer, in a rare trial of a U.S. journalist charged with a crime while reporting.
Andrea Sahouri, a public safety reporter for the Register, had been covering protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd on May 31 last year, when police pepper-sprayed and arrested her and her then-boyfriend, Spenser Robnett. They were charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts, misdemeanors that could lead to 30 days in jail.
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