FBI investigating after Idaho deputies shoot, kill rancher

[Recursion]

Source: Washington Post

The FBI has launched an investigation into the death of an Idaho rancher who was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies after one of his bulls was hit by a car and charged emergency crews.

Idaho State Police say Jack Yantis died Nov. 1 after an altercation with two Adams County deputies on a highway. The deputies planned to shoot the injured animal when the 62-year-old rancher arrived with a rifle. Investigators say all of them fired their weapons.

U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson says the FBI’s investigation is separate from the one by state police. Olson says federal authorities are involved because of allegations the deputies used excessive force, which would violate U.S. laws.

The Idaho attorney general and the U.S. Attorney’s Office would independently decide whether to file charges.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-investigating-after-idaho-deputies-shoot-kill-rancher/2015/11/13/b0177ee4-8a4f-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html

[NBachers]

1. Good- Prosecute and jail; huge settlement as well.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. WOW! The FBI!?!?!?!

For one WHITE RANCHER with a GUN!!!

...Meanwhile cops slaughter unarmed African Americans & other minorities & it takes video PLUS absurd circumstances for anything to be done.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. There have been FBI investigations of a number of police killings of black people.

They usually come to nothing because it's hard to prove racial bias, usually the basis for federal charges in those cases.

I'm not sure what the basis for the FBI involvement in this case is. But it still looks like a bad police killing, no matter what the color of the victim.

On edit: I should read the whole article. It says the basis for FBI involvement is the allegation of excessive force.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. I know, You're correct...

I was a bit grumpy when I posted that but still the contrast is a bit glaring when a white man can get into a shoot out with cops & die & still get an FBI investigation the next day & sometimes it takes public unrest to get the same thing when unarmed minorities are killed by cops far more often.

Don't get me wrong I want thorough investigations of ALL police shootings by outside investigators NOT by the same agency that did the shooting.

[2naSalit]

3. Oh it got worse...

the sheriffs also threw his wife to the ground and cuffed her, wouldn't let her talk to her husband while he was dying and she had a heart attack and is in the hospital. Other family members were witnesses, there's much more to this ordeal than we're being told.

[Dawson Leery]

4. kick

[Hortensis]

6. If half what the family and friend told the Idaho Statesman

is true, this is dreadful. The family and friend were all arrested and handcuffed as they ran to help the dying/dead rancher and had to lie there helplessly by the rancher's body. They also had to watch the bull slowly die over 2 hours because the police had shot him in the body as he lay with a broken leg but wouldn't finish the job and put him out of his misery, as begged by the rancher's wife.

BTW, that bull, name "Keiford," weighed about 2500 pounds. The couple in the car that ran into him on the highway were seriously injured but will be okay.

The article in the link below is the family and friend's account only.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article43654638.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. This ain't gonna sit well with certain people in Idaho

not to mention Western ranchers.

[Hortensis]

8. On of my first thoughts, too.

A friend's husband, who loves hunting, wanted to buy a second home up in that general area, but after researching and learning about the redoubt philosophy of a bunch of immigrants to the area she put her foot down.

These folk sound like the kind of people who help elect sheriffs, though, ranchers, not their victims. Well, better wait and hope for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.