Man Live-Streams His Death At Hands Of TN Sheriffs

By Bob Owens

Rodney James Hess, a man who parked his SUV on a Tennessee highway off ramp to block traffic was shot by at least one responding Crockett County sheriff’s deputy after he first made a bizarre statement about wanting to speak with “the higher commands,” and then apparently making some sort of movement.

Police in Tennessee on Thursday fatally shot a driver who authorities said tried to hit officers with his vehicle, and who recorded the shooting on Facebook live.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Rodney James Hess, 36, parked his sport-utility vehicle on a highway off ramp at around 2:15 p.m., was acting erratically and at one point “attempted to use his vehicle to strike the officers at least twice.”

“During the escalation of events” at least one Crockett County sheriff’s deputy fired through the windshield, the agency said in a statement. Hess was airlifted to a hospital and later died.

In one of two videos posted by Hess on Facebook, he tells the officer outside his window that he would like to speak with “the higher commands.”

“I need the higher commands to come out,” Hess tells an officer in the video, before making some kind of movement. Gunshots are heard, and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms