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Florida deputy mistakes acorn for shots fired; Overreaction on body cam
TMZ ^ | 2/14/2024

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.

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KEYWORDS: acorn; banglist; donutwatch; florida; jeffthegrammarnazi
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To: metmom

She had a lot of time to take cover. Here There was NO IMMINENT THREAT.
All BAD!


61 posted on 02/14/2024 1:16:55 PM PST by dasboot (Nuanced foreign relations is the germ of international misunderstanding. )
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To: Mr.Unique; Alaska Wolf; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; Shimmer1; ...
JBT Ping list

“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker


62 posted on 02/14/2024 1:28:28 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Mr.Unique

I can understand the officer reacting and hitting the deck.

I cannot understand emptying a magazine down a street with no threat clearly identified.

Anyone that has lived in city with Live Oaks knows what acron gunfire sounds like. Go out at night and it sounds like popcorn popping.


63 posted on 02/14/2024 1:32:46 PM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: dasboot

Sorry. My comment was about the gal-cop that shot the complainant. Oops: wrong thread.....


64 posted on 02/14/2024 1:41:20 PM PST by dasboot (Nuanced foreign relations is the germ of international misunderstanding. )
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To: Mr.Unique

That looks like attempted murder, to me ...


65 posted on 02/14/2024 1:47:19 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bob434

If you shot up a car the way that public servant shot up a car, you’d be in jail.

Don’t try to deny it.


66 posted on 02/14/2024 1:49:30 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: sarge83
The one who thought he was shot and initiated the event should be fired immediately.

According to the article, he resigned.

The second officer reacted to protect another officer she thought was under fire.

YOU are morally and legally responsible for every round you fire. Your infallible masters, apparently, are not ...

Rule 4: Be sure of your target, and what lies beyond it. She cannot possibly have been sure of her target. He certainly wasn't.

67 posted on 02/14/2024 1:56:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Mr.Unique
Not just the guy in the vehicle, the homes behind the vehicle.

Know what's behind your target!

68 posted on 02/14/2024 3:06:22 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: All; Mr.Unique

“Donut Operator” has checked in on the topic:

https://youtu.be/rvxyHsBHKiw?si=m2Z-UlgQpkKXqMCt

(The male cop resigned, and I see a big payday for the back seat “passenger”!)


69 posted on 02/17/2024 5:37:45 PM PST by Drago
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To: Mr.Unique

“Neither cop was hold legally accountable.”

Investigation found first cop’s actions unreasonable and he subsequently “resigned”.


70 posted on 02/21/2024 9:34:37 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Afterguard

Yes, it looks like spellcheck urined your post.


71 posted on 02/21/2024 9:57:47 AM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: Mr.Unique
But let this be clear, we understand this situation was traumatic for Mr. Jackson and all involved and have incorporated this officer-involved shooting into our training to try to ensure nothing similar happens again."

I'd love to see that training exercise. :-)

72 posted on 02/21/2024 9:59:13 AM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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