#jack yantis

Defund the Police | What are we to think? #IDgop #GeorgeFloyd

The political Right in the US is pretty good at making memes. The political Left is very good at making catchy slogans that mean very little. Examples are Hands Up Don’t Shoot, well actually Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri didn’t have his hands up.  Green New Deal, what does it mean? Well, anything the political far-left wants it to mean.  Black lives matter, yes they do, but I do not support…

Monroe Isadore

Jack Yantis

Idaho State Police and the Idaho Attorney General's Office areinvestigating the puzzling shooting of 62-year-old rancher Jack Yantis by Adams County sheriff's deputies on November 1. The shooting followed a traffic accident in which one of Yantis' bulls was injured, but it remains unclear exactly how that incident escalated into Yantis' death.

The Idaho Statesman reports that Yantis—whose ranch is on U.S. Highway 95 about six miles north of Council, a tiny town two hours from Boise—got a call from the Adams County Sheriff's Office around 6:45 p.m. One of Yantis' bulls had been hit by a car on the highway. "Its rear leg was shattered by the collision," the paper says, and it "started charging people at the crash scene."

Rowdy Paradis, Yantis' nephew, said that when he arrived at the scene of the accident he found the bull lying in the grass near the driveway of the ranch. Yantis told Paradis to get a rifle so he could put the bull out of its misery, but meanwhile the two deputies at the scene opened fire, wounding the bull but failing to kill it. When Yantis pointed his rifle at the bull's head to end its suffering, Paradis said, a deputy grabbed him from behind, spun him around, and grabbed the rifle. The rifle may have gone off during the scuffle, and both deputies opened fire, killing Yantis.

Yantis' wife, Donna, who had a heart attack after witnessing the shooting, confirmed her nephew's account in a video recorded at the hospital. After the shooting, she said, the deputies "threatened me and my nephew, Rowdy Paradis, threw us on the middle of Highway 95, searched us and handcuffed us, and wouldn't let us go take care of Jack." The deputies would not let anyone euthanize the bull either. "The bull ended up lying there for two hours," Paradis said, "suffocating in his own lung blood because they shot him in the gut."

It is unclear what provoked the scuffle or the shooting, although it seems reasonable to assume that Jack Yantis was upset about the way the deputies had treated the bull, which he had raised and tamed. "Law enforcement should be trained to de-escalate situations," Paradis said. "In this case, I stood 10 feet away and watched two deputies escalate the situation and needlessly kill a man."

Rancher dies in shootout with deputies planning to kill bull after accident

Rancher trying to protect bull shot, killed by deputies

November 03, 2015

A crash between a car and a bull turned into a bizarre tragedy Sunday when an armed rancher confronted Idaho deputies planning to shoot the animal, leading to a shootout that left the well-known businessman dead, authorities said.

Jack Yantis, the bull’s 62-year-old owner, was shot by police who had responded to the…