Kyle Thies

Des Moines cop at the center of other allegations of racial profiling.

They include a case in which the city settled for $75,000 while making no admission that profiling occurred.

https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Des-Moines-to-pay-75000-in-racial-profiling-lawsuit-511369952.html

Thies has become a focal point in Iowa advocates’ push for stepped-up efforts to prevent racially based traffic stops. Last year, social justice organization Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement released a video viewed more than 10 million times online of Thies making what CCI contends are untrue or unfair observations to justify the search of a car driven by Montray Little, a 23-year-old black man.

* The forename Montray has been misspelled in other places online as Montrey.