On 23 Apr 2023, Lewis <nowomr@protonmail.com> posted some
news:u23q7u$3t81f$4@dont-email.me:

> Good thing that stupid fucking Mexican couldn't hit the broad side of
> a barn with a bucket of shit.

Shocking body-camera footage released this week showed a Florida cop�s
dangerous overreaction, in which he dropped, rolled, and unloaded an
entire clip from his pistol in the direction of a restrained suspect
after mistaking an acorn falling on his patrol car for a gunshot.

Jesse Hernandez, of the Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office in the Florida
Panhandle, resigned a month after the incident as his superiors
ultimately determined his use of force �was not objectively reasonable.�

Footage of the incident, which occurred in November, surfaced for the
first time this week. In it, Hernandez is seen flinging himself to the
ground while calling out �shots fired� four times. He does a roll,
breaks his sunglasses, and then pulls out his handgun and opens fire at
his own patrol car.

Hernandez�s partner, Sergeant Beth Roberts, emerges and opens fire
herself after confirming with Hernandez that someone shot at him. Making
the situation all-the-more baffling, Hernandez, while firing around 18
shots, was grunting and yelled out to his partner, �I�m hit, oh, I�m
hit.�

Moments later, the footage shows him crawl to cover and he claims that
he�s been shot through the car. Then, likely realizing he was never shot
at all, he tells a frantic Roberts, �I�m good, I feel weird, but I�m
good.� He later adds, �It might have hit my vest.�

In reality, Hernandez�s department determined he was never shot at all,
as the detained suspect, 22-year-old Marquis Jackson, a Black man, was
not armed. Instead, cops said he sat helpless in the back of the patrol
car while a barrage of shots were fired at him from Hernandez and
Roberts.

Jackson wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that the incident left him
�damaged for life,� despite him miraculously not being struck by the
officers� gunfire.

He said he was �scared to death,� and that he leaned over and played
dead �to prevent getting shot in the head.�

�Mentally, I�m not OK,� he said. �I haven�t been the same since and I
don�t think this feeling I have will ever change.�

Once the officers stopped firing, Jackson said they forced him to show
his hands, but he couldn�t raise them as ordered because he was still in
handcuffs on allegations he�d stolen his girlfriend�s car. While doing
this, he said he was staring down the barrel of an officer�s gun, so he
closed his eyes and prayed he�d survive the ordeal.

�I eventually found a way to rest my cuffed hands on the shattered
window area to show that I wasn�t armed. A few minutes later they
swarmed the car and slammed me on the ground to search me,� he said.
�The image I can�t get out of my head is seeing how bad my mom was
hurt/crying right before I got into the ambulance.�

Sheriff Eric Aden said in a video statement that he apologized
personally to Jackson, his family, and conceded that �we let the public
down.�

�I will admit that this was a very tragic and traumatic incident for Mr.
Jackson and we are so grateful and thankful that he was not injured,�
Aden said.

The department compiled a 44-page report for the incident, which
included a nearly second-by-second breakdown of the released footage and
partial transcripts of interviews that were conducted with the officers
involved.

Those interviews appeared to show that Hernandez was in denial of his
department�s findings. Once informed it was determined the noise that
set him off was merely an acorn striking his patrol car�s roof, the
report said Hernandez refused to watch his own body-camera footage.

Roberts told investigators she only opened fire because Hernandez did so
first and she feared he�d been shot. She said his positioning in the
middle of the road was particularly troubling�and, in the aftermath,
truly puzzling�because police training instructs officers to seek cover
in shots-fired situations.

With Hernandez audibly grunting and calling out that he was hit, plus
his strange positioning on the road, Roberts said she truly believed
Hernandez had been seriously injured.

�I thought I just saw a deputy get murdered,� she said, according to the
report. When asked what her feeling was when she heard Hernandez call
out that shots were fired, she said she thought, �Shit has hit the fan.�

Roberts will not face any internal punishment for her role in the
shooting after the probe determined her response was �objectively
reasonable.�

Hernandez was an active deputy in the Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office
between January 2022 and the incident, which occurred on Nov. 12, 2023.
Prior to that, he�d served two tours in Afghanistan but never saw
combat.

Jackson said that he was placed in a holding cell for hours after the
incident and had his fingerprints taken. He said he was eventually
released with no charges filed against him. He did not return interview
requests from The Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-footage-shows-florida-cop-jesse-her
nandez-unload-clip-after-mistaking-acorn-for-gunshot