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A nonprofit dissected a surveillance video from the 2020 George Floyd protests, revealing allegedly undocumented use-of-force incidents by the DMPD.

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A nonprofit group devoted to fighting racially-biased policing wants to know why the Des Moines Police Department is missing use-of-force reports from the 2020 George Floyd Protests.