The police and sheriff have a chain of command. My belief is that Jeb is at the top; he should be.
Every person in the chain of command who obstructed Jeb's order should be given the equivalent of a bad-conduct discharge and fired, immediately.
Those same people should be ready to find themselves the receiving end of some world-class wrongful-death lawsuits, also.
The last time I read "we were just following orders", the venue was Nuremburg.