Posted on 11/12/2021 9:01:17 AM PST by Impala64ssa
A woman who attacked a Polk County deputy was shot dead Thursday, according to the sheriff.
The Polk County sheriff says the shooting happened Thursday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. in Wahneta, in unincorporated Polk County. The woman, identified as 24-year-old Jessiram Hweih Rivera, allegedly attacked a deputy with a shovel.
Deputies were called to the area regarding a suspicious woman who was walking in and out of moving traffic on Rifle Range Road near Noles Lane in Wahneta.
Sergeant Sean Speakman, 46, arrived to find Rivera south of Redemption Baptist Church on the west side of Rifle Range Road.
"She was in an obvious state of agitation and she was holding a shovel. As the Sergeant was speaking with the woman on a private dirt driveway, she raised the shovel, pointing it towards the Sergeant, and began advancing towards the Sergeant."-PCSO
According to the sheriff, the Sergeant asked her to stop and put the shovel down multiple times and began backing away. The Sergeant fired four times hitting the woman.
Rivera was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Deputies say she had an extensive criminal history, including violent felonies and a previous battery on a law enforcement officer.
The sheriff's office says Sergeant Sean Speakman, 46, was hired by the PCSO in 1998 and began working in Information Technologies. He entered the training academy and became a deputy Sheriff in 2005. He was promoted to Sergeant in 2018. He is a patrol sergeant working in the NE District.
"Standard protocol for all deputy-involved shootings includes four independent investigations: the PCSO Homicide Unit is conducting a death investigation, PCSO Administrative Investigations is conducting an administrative inquiry, the State Attorney's Office responded to the scene and will conduct a separate investigation, and the 10th District Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an investigation to determine the cause and manner of death."
Per agency protocol, the deputy involved will be placed on administrative leave with pay during the initial phase of the investigation.
Suicide by cop.
Thread winner right out of the gate. Well played…
“Shovel Ready”, Aim… FIRE!
As someone who lives within a few miles of Rifle Range Road, I can attest that it is a portion of the county that is economically poor, but without the skin coloring that some here might suspect—Polk County has everyone from rich to poor, and the poor come from all levels of melanin, from the greatest to the least.
I can dig it.
Meanwhile, the state is trying to say Rittenhouse didn't need to fire four shots at Rosenbaum.
But.. but.. Isn’t the deputy’s fault for bringing a gun to the scene, which triggered her to run up to him with the intention of surrendering to him, with the shovel facing downward, for most of the time? It’s HIS FAULT!
We can do a freeze frame showing her in a non-threatening stance at one moment, thereby proving her innocence.
There are many like it but this one is mine
My shovel is my best friend. It is my life
The deputy really got her in spades.
Pic from previous arrest.
Well done.
I’ll be interested in the sheriff’s take on this. He is brutally honest and does not mince words.
she had an extensive criminal history
Lesson one
You can’t play I do what I want to in a civil society.
They can have my shovel when they pry my cold dead fingers from……..oh wait. Never mind………
Just right. Bravo.
Mike Obama says: “Who you calling a ‘Spade’?
Obviously not knowing full details, but wouldn’t a tasar if the officer had one or if he didn’t then a shot in the leg been more appropriate? Why the need for lethal force against a shovel ?
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