The number of police killings has risen sharply — Des Moines police killed five people between 2015 and 2022, according to data from the Washington Post's police shootings database. That's fewer deaths in seven years than there has been in seven months in Des Moines.
Iowa, along with 16 other states, filed a lawsuit last year to remove gender dysphoria from the list of federally recognized disabilities. Des Moines police said Christopher Kern, 49, broke into ...