Why Police Tried to Make an Example of Journalist Andrea Sahouri

Most arrested reporters never go to trial—and this case should have been no different

Lyz Lenz
GEN
Published in
5 min readMar 11, 2021

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Photo: Steve Skinner Photography/Getty Images

On Wednesday, Andrea Sahouri, a journalist with the Des Moines Register, and Spenser Robnett, her boyfriend at the time, were acquitted of all charges that they failed to disperse and resisted arrest while…

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Lyz Lenz
GEN
Writer for

Author of God Land. Columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The book Belabored is forthcoming from Bold Type Books in August of 2020.