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Deputies named in Council rancher’s shooting

From a local:

Btw: The two shooters in Council were “outed” today by the Sheriff. One was fired for brutality in McCall in ’13, out of court settlement. The other has had 6-7 different jobs in various ID LEO places over 15 years – wonder why he couldn’t keep a job??? The Sheriff knew all of the dirt before he hired them. Wonder why he was sweating so profusely!

Some open anti-cop bias here....but also a lot of interesting information and some claims about corruption and nepotism in the county.

http://libertyfight.com/2015/Yantis_dep ... named.html

That 'blog' if you wanna call it that, is written like a bad conspiracy theorist article. I made it as far as the rant about him being a Ron Paul supporter is somehow relevant or the smoking gun. My face hurts (after facepalming that hard) from reading that .... nonsense(keeping it forum safe).

Deputies named in Council rancher’s shooting

From a local:

Btw: The two shooters in Council were “outed” today by the Sheriff. One was fired for brutality in McCall in ’13, out of court settlement. The other has had 6-7 different jobs in various ID LEO places over 15 years – wonder why he couldn’t keep a job??? The Sheriff knew all of the dirt before he hired them. Wonder why he was sweating so profusely!

philip964 wrote:http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/loca ... 54638.html

More information on the death of the rancher.

Don't know much about the leanings if any of the Idaho Statesman.

“I put the (skid loader’s) lights on him and the bull, and he lined up to shoot the bull in the back of head and put him out humanely,” Paradis said.

The rifle’s barrel was about 2 feet from the bull, and Jack Yantis’ finger was on the trigger.

“Everything was going as planned. … I did not notice any conversation at all” between Jack Yantis and the deputies, Paradis said. “Then the one cop turned around and grabbed his shoulder and jerked him backwards.”

The deputy came from behind, spun Yantis around and grabbed the rifle’s scope, Paradis said.

The deputy pushed Yantis. The rifle was still in Yantis’ hands, its barrel pointed at the ground. Yantis was trying to regain his footing.

Meanwhile, the bull was still alive, slowly bleeding out on the roadway. Family members asked the deputies to put it down to end its suffering. No one did.

“The bull ended up lying there for two hours,” Paradis said, “suffocating in his own lung blood because they shot him in the gut.”

Several of the residents of Adams County have complained to us that the death of Jack is the tragic result of a much bigger problem and pattern of abuse in Adams County.

Matthew Taylor, lawyer for Yantis family

According to KTVB-TV, soon after Yantis arrived on the scene to find his injured bull, he and the two deputies with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office became involved in what has been labeled a shootout.

Rowdy Paradis, the Yantis’ nephew, told the Statesman that Yantis had retrieved a rifle and was about to put down the agitated bull — who had a shattered leg — when one deputy came up behind him and grabbed his shoulder, spinning him around. Paradis said he did not notice any conversation between Yantis and the deputies prior to the altercation.

Paradis said that Yantis, with the rifle still in his hands and pointed at the ground, tried to regain his footing after the deputy grabbed him. He added that he is not sure whether or not the rifle discharged but conceded that it might have accidentally gone off when the deputy grabbed Jack and spun him or when the deputies began to shoot at Jack — hitting the hand holding the rifle.

Donna Yantis said she screamed at the deputies to stop as she watched her husband, who was shot in the chest and abdomen, fall to the ground. When the deputies did not move to help the rancher, even after he was on the ground, she and Paradis began to run toward him but were quickly stopped.

“And then they threatened me and my nephew … threw us on the middle of Highway 95, searched us and handcuffed us, and wouldn’t let us go take care of Jack,” Donna said.

Paradis added that one deputy pointed his gun at Paradis’ head. A family friend who was on scene and also tried to help Jack was handcuffed as well.

That’s when Donna had a heart attack. She was eventually airlifted to a hospital in Boise were she remained on Sunday.