MORON A Florida Cop Gets Into a Shootout With an Acorn, Emptying His Gun Into His Own Patrol Car (with suspect cuffed inside)
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Deputy Acorn is a recent hire. For the rest of his life is will be surrounded by
acorn awards. This bizarre video was difficult to watch. It's like, where do they
find these recruits, how did he pass the psychological testing, are departments
taking anyone that can walk in the door?
I don't know his background, maybe played too many video games in his parents
basement, maybe he was shot at too many times in the Middle East or similar place?
Being shot at in the M.E. was a way of life, but we don't come back and try to kill our squad car.
When I spoke with a county sheriff some years ago about the recent hires, he said it
was a mostly different type of recruit coming into police work. They all want to work
just weekdays. They are not interested in working nights or weekends. They want
the latest LE toys on the market. They are difficult to please and many leave within five years.
It appears that Deputy Acorn is another one that slipped in under the wire. I believe
that there a lot more of these nuts out there.
Deputy Acorn parked his squad under the acorn tree. He should have noticed all the acorns
on the ground and even walked on them. He should of had a clue.
Just don't park your car under a walnut tree as walnuts have been known to take out the
rear window of cars.
acorn awards. This bizarre video was difficult to watch. It's like, where do they
find these recruits, how did he pass the psychological testing, are departments
taking anyone that can walk in the door?
I don't know his background, maybe played too many video games in his parents
basement, maybe he was shot at too many times in the Middle East or similar place?
Being shot at in the M.E. was a way of life, but we don't come back and try to kill our squad car.
When I spoke with a county sheriff some years ago about the recent hires, he said it
was a mostly different type of recruit coming into police work. They all want to work
just weekdays. They are not interested in working nights or weekends. They want
the latest LE toys on the market. They are difficult to please and many leave within five years.
It appears that Deputy Acorn is another one that slipped in under the wire. I believe
that there a lot more of these nuts out there.
Deputy Acorn parked his squad under the acorn tree. He should have noticed all the acorns
on the ground and even walked on them. He should of had a clue.
Just don't park your car under a walnut tree as walnuts have been known to take out the
rear window of cars.
Shadow
Swift, Silent,...Sleepy
A as supervisor I would say "the suspect was just cuffed, behind his back, after a pat down, and locked in the cruiser. Explain to me precisely, how you thought he got free, where he obtained a weapon and how he fired on you without breaking a window."
It would have to be very creative to convince me that the person should be carrying a weapon and representing law enforcement to the community I was responsible for.
Shadow
It would have to be very creative to convince me that the person should be carrying a weapon and representing law enforcement to the community I was responsible for.
Shadow
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
...the driver, if I remember right, was handcuffed in the back of the police car and secured by a seatbelt. And the sound was an acorn hitting the car.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
20Gauge
TB Fanatic
What worries me is that the Acorn seems to have won the battle...... just saying...A Florida Cop Gets Into a Shootout With an Acorn, Emptying His Gun Into His Own Patrol Car
Deputy Jesse Hernandez, whose bullets miraculously missed the handcuffed suspect in the car, resigned during an investigation that found he "violated policy."
JACOB SULLUM | 2.14.2024 1:25 PM
A falling acorn prompted a Florida sheriff's deputy to empty his pistol into his own patrol car, where a handcuffed suspect was sitting at the time. Another deputy also fired at the car. Amazingly, neither the suspect nor anyone else was injured. The bizarre incident, which happened on November 12 in Fort Walton Beach, led to the resignation of Deputy Jesse Hernandez three weeks later, the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office revealed on Friday.
Hernandez, who had been a deputy since January 2022, and his partner, Sgt. Beth Roberts, were responding to two service calls. The first, received at 8:42 a.m., involved "a vehicle driving around honking its horn and disrupting the peace since 3 a.m.," the sheriff's office said. The second call was from a woman who said her 22-year-old boyfriend, Marquis Jackson, had stolen her car and "had been calling and texting her threats." She "provided text messages she said had been taken from inside her vehicle showing what appeared to be a firearm suppressor pointing at the dash of the victim's vehicle."
Jackson, who showed up at the scene on McLaren Circle around 9:09 a.m., "was detained, searched, handcuffed, and placed in the rear of Deputy Hernandez's patrol vehicle while the investigation continued" and "the victim completed the affidavit for the stolen vehicle." She "told deputies Jackson had a silencer" but "she was not sure where it was" and added that he "had more than one weapon." Meanwhile, "other deputies found the victim's vehicle at 1656 Hunt Club Street."
Body camera video shows what happened next. Hernandez is walking back toward his patrol car when he exclaims, "Shots fired! Shots fired! Shots fired!" He rolls, runs away from his car, turns, and fires 17 rounds into the vehicle, emptying his magazine. While he is firing the last few rounds, he shouts, "I'm hit! I'm hit!" Later he says, "I'm good, but I feel weird." Then he speculates that "it might have hit my vest" and asks another officer, "Dude, am I hit?"
Hernandez was not hit, because no shots were fired until he began shooting at the patrol car where Jackson was sitting. After "witnessing Deputy Hernandez's response and reaction and fearing for his life," the sheriff's office says, Roberts "responded with gunshots towards the car as well in response to the perceived threat."
That's a lot of responding. To what, exactly? The sheriff's office says Hernandez "heard a pop sound which he perceived to be a gunshot." It adds that "the audible sound Deputy Hernandez reported can be heard on body cam video" (not by me!) and that "witnesses also attested they heard the sound they thought could have been a muffled gunshot." During the ensuing investigation, Vice News reports, Hernandez was shown "frame-by-frame footage" in which an acorn can be seen hitting the patrol car, which was parked near an oak tree. "Acorn?" Hernandez asked. "Acorn," an investigator replied.
"Immediately we began working diligently to determine the complete sequence of events and facts surrounding what transpired," Sheriff Eric Aden said. "Deputy Hernandez resigned during the course of our investigation but was ultimately found to have violated policy" because his use of deadly force was not "objectively reasonable."
The internal investigation "also led to the determination" that Roberts' "use of deadly force was objectively reasonable," and "she was exonerated." A review by the 1st Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office found "no probable cause for criminal charges" against either deputy.
Aden said he is "limited in further response due to pending litigation." But he added: "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. We are very thankful Mr. Jackson wasn't injured and we have no reason to think former Deputy Hernandez acted with any malice. Though his actions were ultimately not warranted, we do believe he felt his life was in immediate peril and his response was based off the totality of circumstances surrounding this fear. Just as we have an obligation to protect our officers so they can go home safely to their families, law enforcement has the same obligation to any citizen being investigated for a crime."
If Hernandez's actions "were ultimately not warranted," of course, he cannot take refuge in "the totality of circumstances." Those circumstances included a suspect who had already been repeatedly searched and taken into custody. Yet the pop of a falling acorn was all it took to convince Hernandez that Jackson had somehow managed to conceal a handgun equipped with a silencer, then retrieve and fire it, all while handcuffed and restrained by a seat belt in the back of a police car.
In a Facebook post, Jackson claims he "had not done anything wrong" when he was approached by the deputies. "They never told me anything," he writes. "I decided to cooperate and just follow demands….I was searched multiple times, then unlawfully handcuffed and placed into the backseat of the cop car while being strapped down by the seatbelts."
When the shooting started, Jackson says, "All I could do was lean over and play dead to prevent getting shot in the head. I was scared to death and I knew all I could depend on was God! I ignored everything and prayed! Windows were shattering on me the whole time as bullets continued flying across me. I was blessed not to get hit by any bullets or get hurt physically but mentally, I'm not ok. I haven't been the same since and I don't think this feeling I have will ever change. I truly believe I'm damaged for life!"
A Florida cop gets into a shootout with an acorn, emptying his gun into his own patrol car
Deputy Jesse Hernandez, whose bullets miraculously missed the handcuffed suspect in the car, resigned during an investigation that found he "violated policy."reason.com
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I suppose this is what happens when Florida Man joins the police academy.
Ractivist
Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
As you know, there's a reason for this.......and it will continue, and be even more egregious.
Looks like the some of the Praetorian guard is starting to notice the cauldron of hate toward them is starting to boil.... 2 cops in Tennessee were shot with one being killed and a cop in Sheridan, WY was killed in the last week or 2!
You are rapidly running out of allies there John Law... shit like this does not help your cause...
You are rapidly running out of allies there John Law... shit like this does not help your cause...
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Damn... and the guy survived?
Yep. Obviously the police were really bad shots.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I bet that was one hell of a payout for that PD and city!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
nope, I thought it was slang as well.