Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.
Link to video of the dude’s body cam, from VICE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTauF2NaZ1o
Acorn hits what looks to be his cruiser, he screams shots fired, seemingly does a double (triple?) combat roll, comes up, fires a number of shots into a stationary car while exclaiming that the shots came from a car (presumably the one he is shooting at), as what appears to be his partner cop is standing right next to this car, as she asks “What, right there?”
Then he cries out in pain, claims he was hit as he drops to the ground and basically does instinctive covering fire toward another car that could have been a likely place for someone to attempt to flank him from… had there been anyone there, or any one shooting at all. Empties the rest of his mag while on the ground.
His partner asks him (Jesse, apparently) where the shots came from, he makes a kind of gutteral noise then wheezes out “In the car! He shot, through the car!” He then makes more pain noises as he crawls along I think hia cruiser.
His partner asks him one more time “Where is he?” to which he replies “I don’t know.” The clip cuts shortly afterward with an off camera bystander screaming.
Basically this chuckle fuck seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was shot and wounded, at least momentarily, due to an acorn hitting his cruiser next to him.
I genuinely have no idea how one could possibly mistake an acorn hitting a car for either a gunshot or a bullet impact. I’m no ex or current cop or military, but I’ve been to gun ranges and shot a variety of guns. Its not even close.
Just maybe, maybe he’s a a bit high strung, you know, to the point of emptying a magazine into a suburb where he easily could have injured or killed someone from the overpenetration of his rounds at such a close range.
Jesus fucking Christ.
EDIT: Ok, in fairness, I was a bit unfair, inaccurate.
An acorn hitting a car does sound similar to a bullet hitting a car.
But in this scenario that would only make sense from long distance ranges, with a shot heard after travelling a looong distance.
In this scenario, at this range, the two cops seem to be investigating people either in a car or maybe they fled inside a house.
So… you would expect a significantly louder gunshot from this close range to the point your brain wouldnt really even be able to notice or process the sound of the bullet impact.
He starts shooting at the car maybe 100ish feet away when the only thing that could have caused just the sound of a bullet impacting the car would have been a sniper, as if theyd been led into an ambush.
So… yeah.
EDIT 2: Apparently this dingus reported that he thought he heard a suppressed weapon fire, and that he felt an impact and then his legs gave out.
Uh… ok so basically /nevermind/ to all of my first Edit… a bullet impact/acorn impact on a car sound nooooothing like a suppressed weapon firing, subsonic/low caliber or supersonic/high caliber.
Nothing alike, at all.
What a goddamned joke.
I’m sure they did mandatory drug and alcohol screenings on site, right?
They promoted him
Did the guy pulled a muscle while doing his tecticool combat roll and thought he was shot lmao
The only silver lining is that they’re so incompetent that they didn’t hurt anyone from their “Anyway I started blasting” gambit
In the spirit of fairness and accuracy after editing my first comment:
At least from this 44 second clip alone…
The female partner cop keeps her cool. Keeps asking where the shots are coming from, never fires her gun.
Jesse here is Mr Hair Trigger, and his female partner didnt start wildly shooting at the first thing she saw.
I have a bit more sympathy for the partner for sure. I would be panicked if my partner is writhing on ground screaming “I’m hit!” as well.
Exactly, from her perspective its officer down, time to get serious!
But she got the right kind of serious, the kind they theoretically train you to be.
What a shit show. Glad she kept her cool but goddamn is this ridiculous.
“I’m not gonna say no, because I mean that’s, but what I, [10 second pause in speaking] what I heard [3 second pause in speaking] sounded almost like [12 second pause in speaking] what I heard sounded what I think would be louder than an acorn hitting the roof of the car, but there’s obviously an acorn hitting the roof of the car.”
Fucking dummy. Thought the shot was coming from the handcuffed suspect in the back and unloaded the whole clip into his own car, couldn’t even hit the guy.
couldn’t even hit the guy.
Well thank fuck that his incompetence got in the way of his incompetence.
I say this with all the contempt in the world - what a fucking POG!
Also, I love this story falls in the realm of something Jalopnik reports on. What a great publication!
Well said.
Couldn’t put it better myself.
Clearly it was an AKorn 47
PRESS ‘Z’ or ‘R’ twice to do a barrel roll!
Meth. Not even once.
