Local pastor shows support for law enforcement

What happened in Dallas hits close to home to many working in law enforcement across the country.

“When I woke up this morning and I picked up my phone and I saw the headline,” said Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries. “It’s devastating to think that five officers were targeted.”

But one small act from a pastor in Ashton made a difference.

“Just had a phone call from one member of the community this morning , wanting to thank us for the work we do here in the community,” Humphries said. “It’s nice to hear things like that.”

“When I saw what happened in Texas last night I began to think ‘What can I do?’,” Pastor David Nichols said. “I drove around town looking for a police car. I thought maybe I could stop and talk to them, but they were all out doing their job.”

So that’s when the pastor decided to call the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and left this message: “Thank you for your service. You’re all in our prayers.”

“It bolsters their courage. It let’s them know that somebody cares,” Nichols said. “Some of them are probably at the point of saying ‘What’s the use?'”

Neither the sheriff or pastor denies there are problems.

“As in any profession, sometimes you get an officer that maybe isn’t the best representative,” said Humphries. “I know they’ve had some disasters in other cities.”

“There’s bad cops out there,” Nichols said. “I’ve seen some where some have been strangled to death, others have been mistreated… Just because of their color, they’ve been stopped, and so naturally there’s going to be people who say, ‘I have no confidence in the police,’ and I say to them, ‘Not every policeman is that way. The majority are not that way.'”