New bodycam footage shows Okaloosa County, FL Deputy Jesse Hernandez declaring "shots fired!" and "I'm hit!" and shooting at the handcuffed, unarmed suspect inside of his police car.
He had not been shot, rather, it was determined that he heard an acorn drop onto the car.
Sgt Beth Roberts responded quickly to Deputy Hernandez erroneously calling "shots fired" in response to an acorn dropping from a tree.
"Where? Right there?" Roberts asked before also firing at the handcuffed, unarmed man in their car.
Luckily, both cops missed every shot.
Both Deputy Hernandez and Sergeant Roberts were cleared of criminal wrongdoing after the shooting prompted by an acorn falling on their police car.
Hernandez, whoever, who erroneously said "I'm hit," resigned from the sheriff's department.
After the Akaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigated Akaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Hernandez and Sergeant Roberts, they did determine that Hernandez's use of deadly force was "not objectively reasonable" but Roberts' was.
Full document: sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/upl…
This was supposed to say "however" not "whoever" for the record.
“Acorn?”
“Acorn.”
Pages 13 and 14 of the investigative report detail the moment that Deputy Hernandez learned he had gotten into a shootout with an acorn.
sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/upl…
Sergeant Roberts, who was cleared in the shooting, described that she believed Herndandez had been shot because the “tone in his voice was terror” after he heard an acorn fall from a tree.
“Like watching a baby giraffe trying to walk for the first time.”
sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/upl…
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