At least four law officers have been killed nationwide in the past nine days and a longtime lawman in western Iowa says he’s seeing a shift in public sentiment about people who wear badges. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker says the law enforcement career is already dangerous, but all of the anti-police protests and violence against officers is changing the way they do business.
Danker says he and his deputies have not experienced a lot of law enforcement hatred like what is being seen elsewhere around the country.
In general, Danker says people in Iowa seem to respect law officers.
Protesters with the “Black Lives Matter” group took to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds last weekend, chanting, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” as they marched. The protest came one day after a deputy sheriff in Texas was shot several times in the back.
