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'I wonder if this city loves me', slain Baton Rouge officer asked

Montrell Jackson. (Photo: AP)

Days before he was gunned down in Baton Rouge by an ex-Marine, veteran police officer Montrell Jackson shared his emotional fatigue at serving in a city he feared was falling out of love with law enforcement.

Jackson, 32, died on Sunday along with two colleagues when the decorated former sergeant opened fire on them, nearly two weeks after police in Louisiana's capital shot and killed a black man.

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