Jude 2

Those who knew him can't understand what drove him to attack a deputy, Crawford said.

"Up until this, he had a good name."

Ummmm.. was anyone else with them? Did anyone else witness this event?
Could someone possibly research the Deputy?

Sounds fishy to me.

I don't know the whole story, of course, but how fishy could it be? They had to reattach the deputy's hand. I can't imagine that he somehow did that to himself. Was the preacher acting in self-defense and happened to whack the guy's hand off him before getting shot by yet another deputy? Maybe so, maybe so. Could've been a gang attack of deputies on the preacher and he was defending himself. I doubt that'll be the official finding. And, keep in mind, too, that he had been arrested for domestic violence days earlier ---- which may mean nothing since I could probably call your town's sheriff and accuse you of anything I wanted and have you arrested. That's how crazy easy it is to get someone in trouble anymore. So, I'm with you .... I don't know. My instinct is that he was probably in a pickle, had some kind of come apart on his family the week before, was arrested for that, then something happened to get them called back on Friday, he flipped, attacked and got shot. Whether he should've been shot seems, on the face of it, justifiable given that the deputy lost a hand. But, it wouldn't be the first time a bunch of officers lied to cover themselves on a less-than-clean shooting, so either way wouldn't really surprise me.

I didn't see all that info in that article.. so I digress to the facts presented.