Posted on 02/14/2024 7:19:58 AM PST by Mr.Unique
A Florida sheriff's deputy is looking more like a cartoonish cop from "Reno 911!" on body cam footage of him mistaking an acorn hitting his patrol car for bullets ... prompting him to open fire on the vehicle.
The video, which was just released, shows Okaloosa County deputy Jesse Hernandez on the job, detaining a guy back in November for allegedly sending threatening texts. Hernandez and his partner cuffed the man and put him in the back of their patrol car.
All seemed to be going well, until Hernandez appeared to hear what he perceived as a shot being fired -- which catapulted him into a frantic drop and roll as he drew his weapon and started firing multiple shots at his car.
Hernandez seems to unload his entire clip ... and, remember, 22-year-old Marquis Jackson was helplessly sitting inside the patrol car, unarmed and completely restrained -- yet, Hernandez clearly thought Jackson had shot at him from inside the car.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Neither cop was hold legally accountable.
I’m surrounded by tall oaks. Their acorns can make quite a racket depending on what they hit. Like my head.
Important to profreed.
Ugh!
Barny Fife?
FELONY Stupid
FELONY Reckless Endangerment with the use of a Firearm
FELONY Assault with a Deadly Weapon
FELONY Attempted Murder
I would give him the chair.
In hindsight it may look like a stupid reaction
But there gave been cases where a person supposedly restrained in a police car has shot at LEO.
Spellcheck is your fiend
If he had known it was an acorn, he would have properly and legitimately shot up into the nearby tree.
Damn squirrels.
Cop sounds a little to uptight to handle a firearm.
Probably hurts himself when he farts.
If only there were sensible acorn laws this wouldn’t happen again
A cop is like a box of chocolates.
It will kill your dog.
He should beg the DA to prosecute him and enjoy prison because after this Everyone will make fun of him, nobody will believe anything he says and none of them will ever want to partner up with this loose cannon out of fear for their own lives.
There’s no reason to need that many acorns!
lol
A fully automatic oak tree no doubt.
L
That should get him promoted to at least Chief Deputy.
Are you naive enough to expect them to be held legally accountable?
That was then. This is now. Now being held legally accountable is only for serfs and peons. Like us.
Acorns = tree bullets.
I’ll bet when he got back to,his desk there was an acorn on The desk with a sign saying “I’m hit”
Years from now cops will say “remember that cop that got shot by an acorn?”
Keeping the neighborhood safe from acorn attacks
“Car 64, car 64, there is an acorn disturbance on the corner of 5th and oak street... proceed with caution”
Sorry couldnt resist
Yup. Spellchecker is my worst enema.
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