After deliberating for less than two hours, the jury found Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri and her ex-boyfriend Spenser Robnett not guilty on misdemeanour charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts. Those advocates, ranging from Sahouri's bosses at the Register to Amnesty International, argued that Sahouri was wrongly arrested while doing her job covering racial injustice protests in Des Moines last May. A press badge for Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri features her jail booking photo from her May 31, 2020 arrest while covering a protest. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register/The Associated Press)"Grateful justice was done and @andreamsahouri was fully exonerated," Gannett news president and USA Today Publisher Maribel Wadsworth tweeted. Another Register reporter, Katie Akin, was near Sahouri and quickly informed police that they were journalists.

Source: CBC News March 10, 2021 22:18 UTC