Deputies in Spokane Valley were faced with an intoxicated vehicle prowling suspect Tuesday morning who, when they escorted him to the ground, attempted to injure himself by rubbing his face into the sidewalk while saying, "all you cops do is grind people's faces in the pavement."

Deputies were responding to an early morning vehicle prowling call in the 9800 block of East 4th Avenue Tuesday and while they were en-route received updated information from a witness who said he'd caught the suspect in his vehicle. That suspect, later identified as 35-year-old Timothy Nelson was walking west on 4th Avenue toward Dishman Mica.

When confronted, Nelson told the witness he was looking for cigarettes.

Authorities later determined he had been inside several vehicles at the location where the witness spotted him.

Deputies caught up with Nelson near 7th and Dishman Mica and found that he was obviously intoxicated and had both fists clenched as if he was holding something. When deputies told him to show them what was in his hands he refused and the deputies decided to go hands on to take him into custody.

As part of Target Zero Task Force, a traffic safety program that strives to end traffic deaths and serious injuries in Washington by 2030, Click it or Ticket recently showed successful results. The goal was to pursue unbuckled and distracted drivers.

More than 130 police and sheriff agencies statewide worked the extra patrols, funded by a grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.

Between May 20th and June 2nd, extra law enforcement patrolled Spokane, Whitman, Pend Oreille and Ferry County roads looking for unbuckled drivers and passengers, and motorists using their cell phones or other electronic devices.

During these patrols, 297 seatbelt infractions were written, in addition to 101 cell phone/texting or usage of other electronic device tickets.

Other tickets issued during extra patrols included

9-1-1 calls made to dispatchers in the hours before a deadly confrontation between a Spokane Valley man and sheriff's deputies are helping bring into focus what happened last weekend when Roy Jacobs was shot and killed by Deputy Jared Kiehn.

Jacobs was shot by Kiehn after he allegedly threatened officers with a knife.�

While it was first reported that Jacobs was trying to surrender himself to deputies what actually happened was officers were responding a domestic dispute, statistically speaking the most dangerous call for service police go to.

Jacobs made a trio of calls to 9-1-1 that night and told dispatchers he had a warrant out for his arrest because he hadn't made his child support payments.

Police didn't respond to his first call and didn't respond the second time he called from the apartment where the shooting happened. The third time Jacobs called 9-1-1 someone hung up and dispatchers called that number back.

Caller: Hello?

Dispatcher: Hi this is Spokane 911 we just got a call from your phone do you have an emergency there?