DES MOINES, Iowa — Law enforcement officers were “legally justified” in the fatal shooting of a Missouri man in August of this year, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office said on Wednesday.
“The Iowa Attorney General’s Office concludes that the law enforcement officers’ actions in this incident were legally justified and that criminal charges are unwarranted,” the office’s report says.
Just after 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 27, an Iowa State Patrol trooper attempted to pull over 48-year-old Michael Broyles of Battlefield, Missouri, on Interstate 29 in Harrison County because Broyles wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Broyles was driving southbound in a Volkswagen Beetle with a trailer loaded with tires…