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Originally Posted by Laneco
This sure looks bad... I'm curious about something. The entire incident started because someone hit the bull with their car. A full grown bull can hit 2,000 pounds pretty easily - and they hit it with a Subaru wagon, hard enough to break both back legs on the bull according to the article.
What happened to the person who was driving the Subaru? Wouldn't they have witnessed this whole thing? Reading the article and seeing the drawing of the scene - it is as if neither the car nor the driver of the car were present. I can guarantee that Subaru wasn't driveable... So where did this person who I assume would have been impartial wind up?
**edit** Looks like both deputies had prior disciplinary issues and one had been fired from a prior employer - Prior employers disciplined the deputies who shot Idaho rancher | Idaho Statesman - man this is certainly ugly...
angela |
Can't answer your question with authority, but in my researching the incident it was mentioned that one of the reasons why the police reacted so dramatically was because Yantis was positioned in such a way that his rifle was aimed at the ambulance and crash victims that were being attended, which were located in the background beyond the bull. This was according to the two policemen. That would explain why the driver was not a direct eyewitness. This all smacks, once again, of poor discipline/poor judgement/poor training/overreaction/negligence/etc. that does not reach criminal level because of the burden of proof requirement. Still, if they cannot prosecute they can still end the careers of such officers, as Nota suggests, so these "accidents" do not happen again and others learn there is punishment beyond criminal incarceration.