IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prosecutor has urged jurors to convict an Iowa journalist of misdemeanor crimes stemming from her reporting from the scene of a violent protest, saying she was near an unlawful assembly and resisted an officer who arrested her. Prosecutor Bradley Kinkade urged jurors during his closing argument Wednesday not to consider that Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was a journalist who was covering the protest for racial justice outside a mall last May. He says her profession was not a defense against charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts.

Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testifies during her trial after being arrested while reporting on a protest last summer, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at the Drake University Legal Clinic, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP)

The jury is deliberating whether Sahouri and her former boyfriend Spenser Robnett are guilty of the two misdemeanor charges.