Two men have been arrested in connection to the assault of a 22-year-old Black man, who said the attack was racially motivated.
that the victim, Darquan Jones, his family and the NAACP of Des Moines say was racially motivated.
Jones gave the men his name, he said, but they attacked. He tried to run away from them but they caught up to him in a nearby field, he recalled, where he was choked and punched multiple times. Darquan Jones said he heard the cock of a gun before two women, who had heard his screams from an apartment nearby, went outside to see what was going on.One of the women, Tyia Campbell, 40, told the Register the suspects were yelling that they "need to get out of our area, we're going to get all of you out of here."Jones has expressed
"After speaking with Quan, his family, and the witnesses that have come forward, if the story is as they state it is, then what occurred yesterday should be nothing less than a hate crime," Kameron Middlebrooks, president of the NAACP in Des Moines, said in the May 17 news conference. “Our hate crime laws in Iowa don’t have any teeth in it,” said Abdul-Samad, who is drafting legislation that would increase penalties for hate crime assaults from a misdemeanor to a Class C or D felony, depending on the severity of the case.
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