The Des Moines Register reporter speaks about her arrest while covering a protest against police brutality: ‘I did my job and I did it correctly’

Six days after the murder of George Floyd, the Des Moines Register journalist Andrea Sahouri went to work.

The public safety reporter was assigned to cover one of the many protests against police brutality happening around the country, set to take place outside Merle Hay Mall, a shopping complex near the city center of Des Moines, Iowa.

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