Posted on 11/05/2015 7:54:52 PM PST by Timber Rattler
An officer-involved shooting that left a longtime Adams County rancher dead Sunday has shocked the community and brought a tidal wave of recriminations for the county's small sheriff's department.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office has been bombarded with angry calls and hate mail from people upset by the shooting, which left 62-year-old Jack Yantis dead on U.S. 95 in front of his home north of Council.
Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman said people in the office are being called "murderers" and said the calls coming in forced one emergency dispatcher to leave her post Tuesday. "She was so upset," he said.
Yantis was one of two ranchers summoned Sunday night to a highway car crash that injured a bull; deputies were unsure whose animal it was, Zollman said. The bull was reportedly charging at first responders working to extricate two people from the Subaru station wagon that hit him.
As deputies prepared to kill the bull, Yantis showed up — with a rifle. What transpired to cause Yantis and the two deputies to all fire their weapons is under investigation by Idaho State Police. On Tuesday, ISP said that anyone who was in the area around the time of the shooting should contact them at 208-884-7110.
The community is roiling with speculation, with many using social media sites to swap theories about what happened.
"Some of the comments on there are pretty negative towards what we try to do," Zollman said. "They say time heals all wounds. This wound will be a festering wound for not weeks, or months, but years or decades."
The department's head dispatcher has arranged for a crisis management team to provide support to the Sheriff's Office.
"We're all going to get through this," Zollman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
Adams County [Idaho] rancher shot and killed by deputies
Apparently the poor hapless police department is traumatized by public reaction to what it did.
White Supremacy?
#Black Bulls Matter!
“”Somebody said he was the kind of guy that wouldn’t back down, and I think that would be a good euphemistic way to put it,” said Dale Fisk, who said he had known Yantis his whole life.”
First officer involved shooting in the history of the country it also says. Not a trigger happy dept. Both officers shot, seeing the same thing. Sounds like he came down with a rifle and an attitude.
This is just awful when you cant bring a rifle and scrap with officers without being shot at.
Still no details at all about the shooting itself.
We are all going to get through this. Quoth the sheriff.
Except of course the dead man.
And the bull.
And the wife that had the heart attack, lots of questions out there.
Hopefully she will get through this.
Lots of questions but so far zero answers.
In all my 70+ years I have always sided and supported law enforcement. I am unable to in this case.
Based on what? There is zero information about what happened.
forced one emergency dispatcher to leave her post Tuesday...
Don’t these people know White Lives Matter?
She may have left because she has a pretty good idea what really happened and can’t stomach the truth.
My guess what happened when the emergency crew showed up;
Female in charge, terrified by bull, same female out-of-control calls for males (deputies) to bring situation under control.
Meanwhile, the bull, not only in pain, but agitated by the out-of-control female over at the ambulance, begins to establish a safe zone for himself and heads for the scene of his greatest aggravation and threat, the out-of-control female who is spewing enough pheromones and attitude to agitate a whole herd of bulls.
Deputies show up, out-of-control females escalates situation further by barking orders at deputies, getting them tensed up.
They turn to the bull............
Having been bystander in a similar situation, the LEO weaponry is not equipped to take down an injured bull. In my situation, the bull’s owner had to shoot him with a rifle. The LEO was happy for the guy to drag out his rifle and take down the hurt bull after they had emptied their pistols to no avail.
That was 40 years ago when most non-city people, including the cops, had enough sense to understand a situation.
I can see these “greenhorn” Deputies seeing the old guy pissed off about losing his bull and with a gun telling the Deputies “he’ll take care of it” and just like the standard dog thing, the Deputies shoot first and ask questions later.
Wanna bet that she was the dispatcher who called the rancher and sent him to the accident scene to take care of his injured bull?
Oh, you’re probably right.
Ping
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