Check out # 23.
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Posted on 11/08/2015 12:54:06 PM PST by Mariner
BOISE, Idaho
The family of an Adams County rancher involved in an encounter with two sheriff’s deputies says the deputies killed him in a “completely unjustified†shooting.
Survivors of Jack Yantis, the 62-year-old who died a week ago in the darkness on U.S. 95 north of Council, say they will pursue claims against Adams County for Yantis’ death.
Donna Yantis spent her 63rd birthday Thursday at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, where she has been recovering from a heart attack she suffered after her husband was killed.
Family members have shared with the Statesman their account of what happened last Sunday night. The account is in written statements prepared with attorneys the family hired after the incident, a video statement Donna Yantis made from her Boise hospital bed, and a draft transcript the lawyers prepared of one family member’s account of what happened.
The Statesman also interviewed several family members, including Rowdy Paradis, a nephew of the couple’s who said he witnessed the shootings.
“Law enforcement should be trained to de-escalate situations,†said Rowdy Paradis. “In this case, I stood 10 feet away and watched two deputies escalate the situation and needlessly kill a man.â€
Sheriff Ryan Zollman did not respond Saturday to an emailed request for comment on the family’s account or to a message left with a sheriff’s dispatcher.
Here is what the family says happened on Nov. 1:
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Check out # 23.
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No, I've never been a law enforcement officer.
One more straw on the camel’s back.
These deputies are a couple of Barney Fifes who, unfortunately, can actually shoot straight, so look what happens.
Or maybe they cannot shoot that straight, considering that they could not kill the bull. Hopefully, their colleagues will send them to prison rather than protect them.
That’s about what I had thought when I read the first report. Both deputies should be fired and charged. Where did they come from, Los Angeles?
You obviously aren’t a farmer or from open range country.
Thank you.
That’s my thought. They obviously didn’t know how to put an animal down humanely. Obviously not even hunters who could shoot an animal with one shot.
Throwing an old woman down and handcuffing her?
Agree.....
Food for thought ... in the American frontier, schoolteachers were preferred and favored to be single with no kids.
Sorry, but is it knowing about kids, or is it about civility and discipline? How is it that one-room schoolhouse teachers held their own pretty well in the American west, by the fruit of the tree?
My third grade teacher was a mean old spinster. Nobody messed with her. My whole family's favorite civics teacher was a wonderful austere in-the-closet lesbian with foul breath who wore here hair in a tight black bun, cold blue eyes, and great sense of humor. She was a damned good teacher and everyone said so. And believe me -- nobody messed with her. She'd freeze you dead with just with her eyes! {^)
Not saying that knowing kids doesn't help -- I had great teachers whose kids were my schoolmates -- but just food for thought.
Uhhh, is that sarcasm or serious?
This whole story makes me sick.
This should be very interesting because the police both had body cameras and dash cameras on their vehicles, and those videos were immediately turned over to the state police, who are conducting the investigation.
Or two...
And don't forget to get their personal details...
One article said the dash cameras were turned off! Don’t know if they will claim body cameras were off too!
LOL!
Great article. Thank you! I often wonder what is influencing this aggressive and deadly police behavior.
Once again, it proves the point, if more proof is needed, that no matter how bad the situation is, involving the police makes it worse.
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