Video Reveals Deputy Mistakes Acorn for Gun Fire, Unloads Magazine at Handcuffed Man
Roughly a dozen bullets were fired at a handcuffed, unarmed suspect who miraculously survived. In November 2023 Okaloosa Sheriff's Deputy Jesse Hernandez reported to a scene where a woman alleged her boyfriend refused to return her car and was sending threatening messages. Deputy Hernandez patted the 22yro down, cuffed him, and put him in the back of his patrol car without any physical resistance. As Hernandez returned to the vehicle to perform a more thorough search of the suspect he heard what he believed to be suppressed gunfire coming from inside of the car however an Internal Affairs investigation revealed an acorn was seen dropping on camera and the sound matched perfectly to when the deputy asserted he heard gun fire. Hernandez yelled he had been shot leading to his fellow officer Sgt. Roberts to join him at shooting the patrol car. Deputy Hernandez has been permitted to resign without any criminal charges filed. Sergeant Roberts has been exonerated of wrongdoing and continues working for the Okaloosa Sheriff's Department.
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@user-xy5xl1bt5b
4 ай бұрын
In the word of God, it is written" the wicked suspect, flee, when their is nothing to suspect nor in pursue of them." Buy saying he was hit indicate to me intent to murder, when no shots was fired ,yet he lied saying he was hit. They have by this conduct been invading accountability for years by Qualified Immunity. License to Murder. James in America Chicago peace be upon you.🤬😡🧐🤔🤨🕖
That Squirrel was armed with a Semiautomatic Acorn. The situation was Nuts. 💁🏿♂️🐿
@galenicalhoover6508
4 ай бұрын
Stop it. (snickers)
This officer should be charged with attempted murder
Does everyone feel safe knowing you can lose your life over an acorn?
@julianahaynes4095
4 ай бұрын
Not overwhelmingly. No.
@kpc9650
3 ай бұрын
Does anyone feel safe when police are around? I feel safer / more secure when absent. Yes, may deter crime (moves to a different location = goes underground), just who enjoys shopping in a store with (high) crime.
The fact that the prosecutor doesn't see anything wrong says that the county government needs to be disbanded. He shouldn't have been given the opportunity to resign. WTH
Criminally Negligent Discharge of a Firearm at least.
This has nothing to do with training, he was looking for a reason to delete the guy in the back of the car. Some SERIAL DELETERS become cops to make it easier to get away with their deletions.
@brettgarcia8334
3 ай бұрын
Exactly!!!
@brettgarcia8334
3 ай бұрын
Trigger happy serial deleters just living their lives out here doing what they truly wanna do, knowing they won’t be held accountable.
Scary officers scare of his own shadow.
@jameswithey8898
4 ай бұрын
His Sgt opened fire too and is supposed to be "highly" trained🤢🤦🤡💩🐖
@johncasamassa462
3 ай бұрын
Cops are cowards. REMEMBER UVALDE???
@user-iq2jp4sc2m
Ай бұрын
Why was he saying I been shot who shot him
Incompetence, this scary cat has no business being a cop.
@22smcrrider96
4 ай бұрын
Oh but he still will be. Idk why he was allowed to resign
@againstnationalismliarsand2615
4 ай бұрын
kakav narod takva vlat🤪😘😅
@brettgarcia8334
3 ай бұрын
Agreed!!!!
According to authorities, the squirrel responsible for dropping the acorn is still at large and considered armed and highly dangerous
he pissed his pants too
Imagine one of us does that and all that happens is we have to quit our jobs?
Reckless engagement and stunning incompetence!
"training" has created panicked, shot happy cowards.
@factsnotfeelings3247
3 ай бұрын
Nothing to do with training, at best these are bad people with bad character who are giving a uniform, gun, and badge and let loose on the american public.
It's crazy cops can do this and nothing happens to them. If I did it I'd get 20 years behind bars!! They're trying to do that very thing and that's the problem and there's no punishment if they do wrong.
@factsnotfeelings3247
4 ай бұрын
The public is not holding them accountable, that's why it continues. This country is finished, we all just dont realize it yet.
@wxmanwes
4 ай бұрын
Qualified immunity needs to be abolished.
YOU COULDN'T HAVE STATED IT ANY BETTER!
This cop was wacked
Did I hear him say I'm hit? Hit by acorns? I don't get it, i'm so confused. 🤷🏽♂️
@PRH123
4 ай бұрын
Like little boys playing army…. We used to do the same things when we were ten years old….
@wxmanwes
4 ай бұрын
Hit by a phantom bullet from a fake gun possessed by the squirrel.
Guns and cowards don't belong together.
The police on the scene became concerned the arrestee in the car may have a silenced weapon. They didn't find one when they searched him. But this concern had to be in the back of their minds. For reasons I will never understand - Officer Hernandez thought an acorn hitting the top of his squad car came from a silenced weapon from within his squad. Some how fired by a restrained prior searched arrestee Despite having no injuries (does stupidity hurt?), and having no evidence of a shot being fired (for example: no broken vehicle windows or exit holes in the squad). Hernandez proceeds to unload his service weapon into the back of his vehicle and then roll around like an injured dog. Then the sergeant who was talking to the complainant. Hears the officer screaming "shot fired" and sees him unloading into the squad. So like an idiot she unloads into the squad. All of the windows in the vehicle are blacked. So what the f were they shooting at? Makes me wonder how me rounds missed the vehicle flew into the surrounding. Arrestee and innocent bystanders endangered. Of course the department said they did nothing wrong. Which means we could be killed "justifiably" by this department it their officers are suddenly scared by rando things falling to the ground.
@user-xy5xl1bt5b
4 ай бұрын
This goes to show you what the future holds if there is not an immediate action taken we will be murdered by this same lame abuse of power. James in America Chicago peace be upon.🤬😡🔥🧐🤔🤨🕖
@kpc9650
3 ай бұрын
Agree with your comment, etc. but as a citizen, dislike the scenario of innocent people killed at hands of unqualified (and unaccountable) police (and gov't).
I think in Florida has a bunch of drugs addicts in all the law enforcement including the justice system 😢😢
And they missed the squirrel that threw the acorn.
In his defense, he did resign Okay, there's no defense for their actions 😬
Ban assault acorns now, we must act. I here many are unregistered. Anyway, what a coward of a cop, but that is typical now days
Thank you for all you do. This is a sad😢😢😢😢 situation. How are these people getting hired?
What a GD 🤡
❤ Know they think Mother Nature is after them. Remember the rookie cop that shot an empty truck, because he heard a telephone pole crack.
@Countrybabe-yi4yr
4 ай бұрын
I never heard of this but WTH??? 😮
PD chief: I've got an idea, let's hire that Chicken Little guy as PR for the department.
If you have very good inuition. You know that cop was faking it.
Simply sickening. They should all face charges. Hope the arrestee sues them
Most police in the world are trained to de-escalate a conflict. It is my understanding that in the USA police are trained to always be in control of the situation. If there is resistance then they must use whatever force necessary to regain control. In a video that I saw the instructor said that they must be ready to kill or they should find another job. 2) A second factor is the number of guns in America. Police are always afraid of being shot by anyone.
Isn’t that normal for cops? If not please let both officers know
He'll no Sue them all family
A police officer does not know the difference between the sound of gunfire and an acorn hitting an automobile. Then he says, “I’m hit”. this officer needs to go to prison.
Charges MUST be filed.
I saw this on another post, Deputy Dawg thought he was hit by gunfire when he heard an acorn hit the bonnet (hood) of the car. Could have been a squirrel gun 🔫
No ! Are they trying
So the guy was handcuffed? How can he not be charged with attempted murder
What would happen to a real person, if they emptied a mag into a vehicle occupied by an unarmed person?
Anyone who can’t tell the difference between an object landing on a car vs a gunshot should NEVER work in law enforcement
"Look out Ned! It's coming right for us!"😂
In prison u go
He had a call of duty flashback moment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This officer was absolutely absurd! 💯
Absolutely not,they both should be charged with attempted murder
Resignation not enough. Requires (financial) learning aide, such as fines and settlement.
And here we see the American law-enforcement officer in his natural element.
God they are so damnnn soft!! Crying like a big baby when the acorn didn’t even hit him!!! He got hurt by A SOUND
Seems like the cop had some major PTSD that they didn't bother to diagnose during his mental exam like wtf
I thought they searched for weapons before putting someone, thats in cuffs, into the police car. If so, where the hell did the cops think he got a weapon from? Just trigger happy cops, or, cops so terrified of their own jobs that they shouldn't be police in the first place.
It sounds like a PTSD episode. However, while I have seen reports that he was deployed to the Middle East. None said he actually saw battle. So, I'm slightly confused.
The pause in this officer’s voice clearly indicates that he’s making this up to discharge his weapon. Unbelievably he should have never been a police officer.
They both need chargers
😮 that's crazy !
Tie budgets to the number of settlements. X number of settlements freezes the budget for a year. Y number of settlements equals a budget decrease. Both should be Rolling Periods so this could extend much longer in theory. Until police depts actually face consequences they measure in money, we won’t see change in the training and education which result in the majority of problems.
The bar is very low for a AGENT OF THE STATE........
Every stage of their training and hiring process should be under federal investigation. But that would open the floodgates on the numerous departments around the nation with similar ineptitude.
The victim said they also made him duck down while they shot out the other windows so they could see inside the cop car.
Rumor has it he shits himself when a mouse farts😊
I know what acorns sound like hitting a car - and it ain't a shot. Loud but not the same. This is a cop who didn't get around much... this job may have been his first intro to firearms.
Any other profession and he’d be in jail. Way too often cops get a pass for some insane levels of incompetence and/or negligence perpetrated on the general public. Hold them accountable!!.
That would be enough for me to move out of Florida.
Secret squirrel 🐿️
The fact that policemen ((always)) supposedly search ppl b4 putting the criminal into the back seat 🤷🏽♀️😳🥺🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I live in Okaloosa County The whole department sucks
In addition to official misconduct, reckless endangerment, and attempted homicide of some degree, this kind of incident needs cops to have POST revoked, and that made into a national mandatory system, Brady listing, also public and national, loss of employment, pension, and more importantly, systemic change. A key systemic change is standards for police shrinks, as to initial hiring as well as ongoing reviews. Some departments use a modified MMPI for academy admission, that tweaked to seek out borderline psychopaths who are likely to act as cooperative gang predators to raise rev'nues or pull violent stunts as if a military unit attacking an enemy, not public serving peace officers. That calls for a move away from nutcase scam pronoun games and trans profiteering in abusive forms by some universities and medical groups, but to have serious standards for review of cops outside departments themselves, and which form a basis for malpractice among doctors contracting to departments if they continue to help seek out immature violence prone gang members. Being a good cop is hard. One has to suspend personal phobias or triggers, and sort out true threats from scary sensations. One also has to yo-yo emotionally from a violent incident or chase of a fleeing felon, to helping some old guy with a medical issue and erratic driving. Violent felon cops and just cops in shakedown rackets or who make specious threats in violation of citizen rights, put other cops at risk, as they spread a real understanding of how many cops need to be put down, even among those of us who recognize also a public service need to be filled.
Hell no. Because he keeps his retirement benefits
The female officer should have been fired also. She had no idea what she was shooting at! No idea what Her back drop was. Shooting blindly at the cruiser
this so called most advanced country seems like it's not a real place the worst things in life happens there
Wait. Resignation? That's it ?
No it isn’t!
My thing is…. why become a police officer if you’re so damn SKITTISH? An ACORN?! REALLY!? And how did that “acorn gun fire” come from inside of that car that had all of its windows shut without damaging the window???? Like, seriously. Come on, now. And if it’s in the case that he has some sort of PTSD from past involvement with a shooting or violent encounter - he shouldn’t be out here dealing with the public. He should be in therapy and definitely shouldn’t have a firearm. Just asking - but doesn’t a PTSD diagnosis bar someone from being able to legally carry a firearm…. ? I mean, he honestly most likely doesn’t have a solid diagnosis to begin with because he doesn’t want to lose his job which allows him to do what he wants to who he wants…… but there are signs. Signs that go completely ignored. As long as someone is making arrests who cares about their mental state, right? We live in a world where a mentally unstable cop kills an unarmed civilian and isn’t held accountable and is able to quietly resign from his position with no punishment, or even worse, just be given paid leave AKA a paid vacation as I like to call it, and are able to join the same force or a different force again once that suspension time is up. People gotta think about that simple fact at least a little more. Why are we so comfortable with the fact that we have corrupt, power hungry, violent narcissists running around demanding you do what they say or else. Cops are scary because they’ve made themselves have that image. Not because someone is a criminal & nervous, not because someone has something to hide - because they rule with intimidation and fear, even to the most innocent or misconstrued of violations. We remain silent and let them do what they want and we could still be manhandled, abused, or arrested. We speak on our rights or innocently make the wrong move and we are manhandled, abused, or arrested. Why are people so comfortable insulting people who know their rights calling them “internet lawyers” or asking “where they got their law degree” as if majority of the actual cops that claim to know the law don’t have shit close to a law degree. A lot of cops don’t know the laws. They know their own interpretation of the law and basically if you bother them or make them the slightest bit angry - you’re suddenly breaking the law and you must be taken in and/or hurt. Why tf did a handcuffed suspect in a car with all of the windows up shoot at this officer???? The answer is - he couldn’t have. The officer suffers a god damn acorn to the head bc of a squirrel in a tree and wanted to automatically blame his restrained and contained suspect. It’s very clear that IQ or simple self awareness isn’t required in that job.
😮 yes an Acorn can make a poppin sound but not a gunshot sound 2 different things
Trained by the IDF?
This cop is unsafe to the community. The guy is a panicker. Can you imagine if people were walking at the time and especially if black; they would have been killed. This cop sounds like a corrupt cop the way he behaves. Who shoots at a car if one doesn't know where the shots are coming from?
Alright. We're here. We've reached idiocracy. There's nothing to satirize anymore. Our culture and economy have become so hilariously corrupt and idiotic I'm left speechless.
😮
Sup w Chris?
I would like to see see the whole video from the moment the officer started talking with the suspect and did the suspect disrespect him or tried to question the officers Authority and did the officers do a thorough pat down/frisking
@wxmanwes
4 ай бұрын
Wtf are you trying to find a justification?
😶
But why did he keep making traffic infractions? That shows that the program has merit.
WHO took this video a bystander? I want to see the whole video.. Does anyone have a link to it? Ty
I can't understand what she's saying because she's speaking so hysterically fast and slurring her words. Maybe have someone on that speaks slowly and clearly.
No.