After months of
protests around the nation over racial injustice in policing,
police groups in
Utah say they have grown frustrated with rhetoric they describe as unfair and called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon linking the Ku Klux Klan with law enforcement.
Police supporters staged a protest outside the Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association, and
Republican U.S. Rep Chris Stewart demanded that the paper retract the cartoon and apologize.
Several police groups, including the state's Department of Public Safety, have condemned the use of KKK imagery to portray law enforcement officials.