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DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. RIGHT NOW, DES MOINES PROTESTORS HAVE NEW DEMANDS FOR THE CITY. THUS COMES AFTER SOME OF THEIR PREVIOUS DEMANDS, LIKE LIFTING THE COUNTY-WIDE CURFEW, WERE M THIS WEEK. ����vlog’S BEAU BOWMAN SPOKE TO ONE ORGANIZER WHO EXPLAINED WHY CERTAIN DEMANDS HAVE BEEN MADE BEAU: THE PROTESTERS WANT TO BE ABLE TO MEET WITH DES MOINES POLICE AND NEGOTIATE SOME OF THE TERMS ON THEIR DEMAND LIST. A NEW LIST OF DEMANDS WAS MADE PUBLIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA LATE THURSDAY EVENING BY BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS. AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, A PLEA FOR JUSTICE FOR DARQUAN JONES, A BLACK MAN WHO WAS ASSAULTED AND CALLED RACIAL SLURS IN MAY O THEY ARE ALSO ASKING FOR A MORE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF ABDI SHARIF, A FORMER DES MOINES ROOSEVELT STUDENT WHO WENT MISSING IN JANUARY, AND WAS LATER FOUND DEAD IN THE DES MOINES RIVER. THE THIRD DEMAND FROM PROTEST ORGANIZERS IS THE ARREST OF THE TWO DES MOINES POLICE OFFICERS WHO DRAGGED PROTESTERS OUT OF THEIR APARTMENT BUILDING. AND THEY WANT POLICE TO RETURN CONFISCATED PROPERTY BACK TO PROTESTERS, AS WELL AS AN APOLOGY FROM DES MOINES POLICE CHIEF DANA WINGERT FOR WHAT THEY CALL VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR FROM THE DES MOINES POLICE DEPARTMENT OVER THE LAST WEEK. >> WE THE PEOPLE, WE’VE SPOKE OUT. YOU GUYS SEE US OUT HERE IN NUMBERS. WE’VE SPOKE OUT, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT, WE WILL CONTINUE TO MARCH, CONTINUE TO BE UNIFIED UNTIL WE SEE CHANGE. AND THAT WILL BE EVERY DAY. AND PEOPLE ARE READY TO MARCH EVERYDAY UNTIL WE SEE CHANGE. BEAU: I REACHED OUT TO THE DES MOINES POLICE FOR A RESPONSE, BUT THEY DECLINED TO COMME