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Paul Parizek, a spokes- man for the Des Moines Police Department, said he was refused service over the weekend at a local Dunkin’ doughnut shop because he’s a police officer. Parizek said he asked a woman behind the shop’s counter, “What’s going on?” “She said, ‘We’re not going to serve you today and you need to leave,’” Parizek recounted. Corporate Dunkin’ officials sent a statement saying that the Des Moines store’s fran- chise owner fired two employ- ees over the incident and had contacted police to apologize. “The employees’ behav- ior is not consistent with Dunkin’s goal of creating an inclusive, welcoming envi- ronment for all our of guests,” the statement said. Officers fatally shoot knife-wielding woman FORT DODGE — A Fort Dodge woman who was re- ported to be acting erratical- ly while wielding knives was shot and killed by police, Iowa state officials said. The shooting happened Tuesday night, after Webster County officials received a 911 call about the woman, ac- cording to a news release from the Iowa Department of Pub- lic Safety. The department’s Division of Criminal Inves- tigation said deputies from the Webster County Sheriff’s Department and a Fort Dodge police officer responded, and during their interaction, the woman was shot and killed. Officials gave no other details about the shooting. Officials have not released the woman’s identity. An au- topsy was set to be conduct- ed by the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office. The Iowa Division of Criminal Inves- tigation has taken over the investigation. DNR seeks help solving boat crash OKOBOJI — The Iowa Department of Natural Re- sources is seeking the pub- lic’s assistance in locating a boat involved in a hit-and-run Tuesday night at West Lake Okoboji. The collision took place at around 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, near Manhattan Point on West Lake Okoboji, according to an Iowa DNR press release. A boat traveling northbound hit another boat from behind, just off Manhattan Point. 52-year-old Vaughn Wick- man, of Spirit Lake, was driv- ing the boat that was hit, and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash. The boat that caused the crash fled the scene. DNR officers and local law enforcement tried to locate the boat — even deploying a thermal-imaging drone — but were unable to find it. Conser- vation officers are continuing to investigate the crash. Anyone with information related to the hit and run, is encouraged to contact DNR Conservation Officer Steve Reighard at (712) 260-1018. Elderly man pleads not guilty to murder LE MARS — An elderly Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife’s son during a domestic distur- bance at his northwestern Iowa home in May. Thomas Knapp, 82, of Merrill, entered the written plea Monday in Plymouth County District Court. Knapp is charged with first-degree murder and willful injury in the May 11 death of 51-year- old Kevin Juzek. Police said Knapp shot Juzek with a 20-gauge shotgun through a bedroom door, then deliberately shot him again in the chest. Investigators have said that Knapp confessed to shooting Juzek. Knapp has also pleaded not guilty to domestic abuse assault, willful injury and oth- er counts for hitting his wife in the head with a stick and breaking bones in her hand during the same disturbance. e Associated Press BY DAVID PITT e Associated Press DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order Wednesday grant- ing convicted felons the right to vote after they complete their sentences, ending Iowa’s place as the only remaining state to broadly deny voting rights to felons. Reynolds, a Republican, fulfilled a promise she made in June to issue the order, though she said she’ll continue to push the Legislature to pass a constitutional amendment that would prevent future governors from overturning it. Her order will not automatically restore vot- ing rights to felons convicted of certain crimes, including first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder, fetal homicide and some sex offenses. Such felons would still need to petition the governor for the restoration of their voting rights. The order will not require felons to make full financial restitution to their victims before they’ll be allowed to vote — a requirement that was opposed by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, which called for a no- strings-attached order. The order will restore the rights to an es- timated 40,000 people who have completed prison sentences, probation and parole, said Betty Andrews, president of the Iowa-Nebras- ka NAACP, which has worked for several years for the change. “We absolutely encourage people to take this day and register,” she said. “Now our work is to make sure that people are registered and understand as of today they don’t need to do paperwork, they don’t need to do anything like that. As of today they are allowed to vote.” Mark Stringer, the executive director of the ACLU of Iowa, lauded Reynold’s order as a vic- tory for the state. “Iowa no longer is the only state in the coun- try to permanently and for life ban its citizens from voting following any felony conviction,” Stringer said in a news release. “We’re relieved that the Governor’s order does not make eligi- bility to vote dependent on how much money a person has, that is, it’s not contingent on pay- ing off fees and fines or other associated debts.” Reynolds has made the issue a priority, previously discussing her own struggle with alcoholism and drunken driving arrests before she sought treatment and got sober more than 20 years ago. She said felons deserve a second chance and that restoring their voting rights was part of that opportunity for redemption. “It boils down to our fundamental belief in redemption and second chances,” Reynolds said before signing the order. “It’s a big step for so many on the road to redemption and prov- ing to themselves and maybe to others that their crimes or convictions do not define them.” Some of Reynolds’ fellow Republicans opposed the move, saying they think some crimes are irredeemable and that felons who owe restitution to victims must pay it before getting their rights back. Such repayment schemes have been viewed by some as a poll tax that would prevent those who cannot af- ford repayment from ever voting. Rep. Ako Abdul Samad, a Black lawmaker who worked for two years with Reynolds on the issue, said he was happy about the order. But he said it’s just one step in the broader fight against racial injustice. “Were asking everyone to reach in their own hearts to begin dealing with the root cause. You need to help us show that black lives mat- ter and if black lives did matter this wouldn’t have been such a hoorah today. This would have been something that was already auto- matic,” he said. Iowa governor restores felon voting rights Reynolds keeps her promise and urges the legislature to continue working on the issue. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL • AP Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds elbow bumps State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, D-Des Moines, after signing an executive order Wednesday granting convicted felons the right to vote during a signing ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines.
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news in briefDoughnut shop workers fired
DES MOINES — Two for-mer doughnut franchise employees were fired after re-fusing to serve a Des Moines police officer, the shop’s cor-porate headquarters said.
Sgt. Paul Parizek, a spokes-man for the Des Moines Police Department, said he was refused service over the weekend at a local Dunkin’ doughnut shop because he’s a police officer.
Parizek said he asked a woman behind the shop’s counter, “What’s going on?”
“She said, ‘We’re not going to serve you today and you need to leave,’” Parizek recounted.
Corporate Dunkin’ officials sent a statement saying that the Des Moines store’s fran-chise owner fired two employ-ees over the incident and had contacted police to apologize.
“The employees’ behav-ior is not consistent with Dunkin’s goal of creating an inclusive, welcoming envi-ronment for all our of guests,” the statement said.
Officers fatally shoot knife-wielding woman
FORT DODGE — A Fort Dodge woman who was re-ported to be acting erratical-ly while wielding knives was shot and killed by police, Iowa state officials said.
The shooting happened Tuesday night, after Webster County officials received a 911 call about the woman, ac-cording to a news release from the Iowa Department of Pub-lic Safety. The department’s Division of Criminal Inves-tigation said deputies from the Webster County Sheriff’s Department and a Fort Dodge police officer responded, and during their interaction, the woman was shot and killed. Officials gave no other details about the shooting.
Officials have not released the woman’s identity. An au-topsy was set to be conduct-ed by the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office. The Iowa Division of Criminal Inves-tigation has taken over the investigation.
DNR seeks help solving boat crash
OKOBOJI — The Iowa Department of Natural Re-sources is seeking the pub-lic’s assistance in locating a boat involved in a hit-and-run Tuesday night at West Lake Okoboji.
The collision took place at around 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, near Manhattan Point on West Lake Okoboji, according to an Iowa DNR press release. A boat traveling northbound hit another boat from behind, just off Manhattan Point.
52-year-old Vaughn Wick-man, of Spirit Lake, was driv-ing the boat that was hit, and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash. The boat that caused the crash fled the scene.
DNR officers and local law enforcement tried to locate the boat — even deploying a thermal-imaging drone — but were unable to find it. Conser-vation officers are continuing to investigate the crash.
Anyone with information related to the hit and run, is encouraged to contact DNR
Conservation Officer Steve Reighard at (712) 260-1018.
Elderly man pleads not guilty to murder
LE MARS — An elderly Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife’s son during a domestic distur-bance at his northwestern Iowa home in May.
Thomas Knapp, 82, of Merrill, entered the written plea Monday in Plymouth County District Court. Knapp is charged with first-degree murder and willful injury in the May 11 death of 51-year-old Kevin Juzek.
Police said Knapp shot Juzek with a 20-gauge shotgun through a bedroom door, then deliberately shot him again in the chest. Investigators have said that Knapp confessed to shooting Juzek.
Knapp has also pleaded not guilty to domestic abuse assault, willful injury and oth-er counts for hitting his wife in the head with a stick and breaking bones in her hand during the same disturbance.
The Associated Press
BY DAVID PITTThe Associated Press
DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order Wednesday grant-ing convicted felons the right to vote after they complete their sentences, ending Iowa’s place as the only remaining state to broadly deny voting rights to felons.
Reynolds, a Republican, fulfilled a promise she made in June to issue the order, though she said she’ll continue to push the Legislature to pass a constitutional amendment that would prevent future governors from overturning it.
Her order will not automatically restore vot-ing rights to felons convicted of certain crimes, including first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder, fetal homicide and some sex offenses. Such felons would still need to petition the governor for the restoration of their voting rights. The order will not require felons to make full financial restitution to their
victims before they’ll be allowed to vote — a requirement that was opposed by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, which called for a no-strings-attached order.
The order will restore the rights to an es-timated 40,000 people who have completed
prison sentences, probation and parole, said Betty Andrews, president of the Iowa-Nebras-ka NAACP, which has worked for several years for the change.
“We absolutely encourage people to take this day and register,” she said. “Now our work is to make sure that people are registered and understand as of today they don’t need to do paperwork, they don’t need to do anything like that. As of today they are allowed to vote.”
Mark Stringer, the executive director of the ACLU of Iowa, lauded Reynold’s order as a vic-tory for the state.
“Iowa no longer is the only state in the coun-try to permanently and for life ban its citizens from voting following any felony conviction,” Stringer said in a news release. “We’re relieved that the Governor’s order does not make eligi-bility to vote dependent on how much money a person has, that is, it’s not contingent on pay-ing off fees and fines or other associated debts.”
Reynolds has made the issue a priority, previously discussing her own struggle with alcoholism and drunken driving arrests before she sought treatment and got sober more than 20 years ago. She said felons deserve a second chance and that restoring their voting rights
was part of that opportunity for redemption.“It boils down to our fundamental belief in
redemption and second chances,” Reynolds said before signing the order. “It’s a big step for so many on the road to redemption and prov-ing to themselves and maybe to others that their crimes or convictions do not define them.”
Some of Reynolds’ fellow Republicans opposed the move, saying they think some crimes are irredeemable and that felons who owe restitution to victims must pay it before getting their rights back. Such repayment schemes have been viewed by some as a poll tax that would prevent those who cannot af-ford repayment from ever voting.
Rep. Ako Abdul Samad, a Black lawmaker who worked for two years with Reynolds on the issue, said he was happy about the order. But he said it’s just one step in the broader fight against racial injustice.
“Were asking everyone to reach in their own hearts to begin dealing with the root cause. You need to help us show that black lives mat-ter and if black lives did matter this wouldn’t have been such a hoorah today. This would have been something that was already auto-matic,” he said.
Iowa governor restores felon voting rightsReynolds keeps her promise and urges the legislature to continue working on the issue.
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL • APIowa Gov. Kim Reynolds elbow bumps State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, D-Des Moines, after signing an executive order Wednesday granting convicted felons the right to vote during a signing ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines.
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