Two police officers were killed while sitting in their cars in the Des Moines, Iowa, area between 1:00 and 1:30 a.m. local time Tuesday night.
Police have arrested 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene, 46, who turned himself in Wednesday morning.
While the agencies have declined to speculate as to Greene’s immediate motive, the Urbandale man appears to have had an escalating series of encounters with police in the area over the past few years. He was kicked out of a high school football game this fall after waving a Confederate flag during the national anthem and getting into a confrontation with black fans nearby. Greene said, “I was offended by the blacks sitting through our anthem. Thousands more whites fought and died for their freedom. However this is not about the Armed forces, they are cop haters.”
Greene has previous numerous minor traffic violations going back to 1996. He was arrested 2014 and charged with interfering with officers who tried to search him for weapons. Officers recorded that he was “noncompliant, hostile, combative and made furtive movements toward his pockets.” Shortly afterwards, he was arrested again, this time for harassing a man at his apartment complex, threatened to kill the man and called him the N-word. He eventually pleaded out a lesser charge, and was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to get a psychological evaluation.
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