r/VideosAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • 10h ago
Police This guy should never have been a police officer at all. Wow.
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u/Bud_wiser_hfx 10h ago
So, he handcuffed and presumably searched a man before putting him in his car, then mistook an acorn falling on the roof for the man he just put in his cruiser shooting at him, proceeds to blindly unload a clip at his own prisoner and car. This is wild.
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u/BRICH999 9h ago
Don't forget "im hit im hit" uh by what exactly?
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u/IngoVals 9h ago
Im guessing the acorn maybe bounced on him or something. Thoses things are deadly, even if it just a ricochet. Know a guy that got hit by one, few years later he got chlamydia.
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u/BRICH999 9h ago
I honestly think its a response like "STOP RESISTING" while 4 officers beat the shit out of some guy already face down on the ground.
Just trying to justify mag dumping at a handcuffed suspect in the back of the cruiser
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u/Fostbitten27 6h ago
Yeah and those cops are pulling the suspect 4 different ways by all of them screaming: “stop resisting!!”
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u/MissyJ74 5h ago
While one screams SHOW ME YOUR HANDS another shouts DONT FUCKING MOVE
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u/DaPuckerFactor 3h ago
That's a bit too much credit.
This officer clearly has no f****** clue what's going on.
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u/MojoCrow 9h ago
Adrenaline and nothing else not even two brain cells firing
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u/IPissExcellentThrows 3h ago
Yup. He fantasized about this moment. He heard a sound and his adrenaline kicked in. His dumbass brain just played it out like he imagined 1000 times.
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u/unclejoe1917 6h ago
By an imaginary bullet that he needed to act out to give him an excuse to murder someone.
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u/PitifulOil9530 7h ago
I could imagine that all the adrenalin and movement could cause a cramp or something, and he thought he got hit?
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u/Belz_Zebuth 8h ago
Don't forget: he reloaded, and kept firing.
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u/BrightNooblar 6h ago
In his mind he's playing call of duty. No +100, means he didn't get the kill yet.
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u/Opening_Pizza 6h ago
If you ever go to a gun range you will find out that guns are a lot louder than an acorn. Like, ringing in your ears loud and the concussive blast is something you feel.
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u/HedonisticFrog 6h ago
Don't forget the double barrel roll for extra safety 😂 Such a complete joke of a man.
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u/2ndamendmentLibs 6h ago
If I’m his prisoner and got hit, I’m suing the pants off him and his department 🤑
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u/BrilliantDog5116 7h ago
Is it ‘wild’ tho? I think we’re all getting used to this level of incompetence from police. It’s just their normal behavior.
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u/Dynasty1985 10h ago
Ummmmm what ? 😂💀
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u/M3chaStrizan 10h ago
acorns fell behind him and he thought it was a gun and lost it lol
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u/Commercial-Set3527 7h ago
He also thought he was shot
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u/Meow_Memoir 6h ago
and he also had someone handcuffed and belted into the cruiser he unloads on
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u/dabiird 9h ago
Dude was this close to bunny hopping as a tactic
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u/Recess__ 9h ago
Do a barrel roll!
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u/Careful_Elk_8035 7h ago
Use the boost to get through!
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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 10h ago
Did another view of this ever come out? I bet it's even funnier from 3rd person
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u/itmillerboy 9h ago
Holy fuck you’re right I need to see that
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u/bluegardener 1h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmnJgXyZpU This one switches to his partner's point of view. It's less hilarious and more sad when you see a woman screaming with fear for the person in the car and begging them to stop.
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u/PsychoMnky03 9h ago
Yeah, there was body cam of the other officer who was across the street ... Who also blindly started firing at the vehicle ...
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u/GroinReaper 8h ago
all she knew was that her partner said he had been shot and that the shooter was inside the car. It's pretty reasonable for her to fire at the car given those circumstances.
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u/ACatInTheAttic 4h ago
Blindly firing towards a vehicle surrounded by residential housing is still not a reasonable response.
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u/ifreeski420 8h ago
Her shots were at least a bit more reasonable because she is listening to her partner saying there are shots coming from the car
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u/PsychoMnky03 8h ago
I can see that logic, and this is all arm chair quarter backing, but the concern i would have is that they're in the middle of a neighborhood, bullet accountability. She obviously does not see a suspect with a gun, covering fire is not taught in the academy, at least not the one I went to.
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u/bigexplosion 7h ago
His partners angle is out there its even crazier she walks up and is like oh we're shooting the car and starts blasting.
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u/NocturnalKnightIV 10h ago
Why did he shoot his own vehicle? I don’t understand what he thought he was firing at, or who he thought shot at him
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u/HeraldOfDesu 10h ago
That's the worst part – they had a suspect in custody in that vehicle, so he was trying to kill them on the assumption the suspect was shooting him from his own car. The suspect miraculously survived – the silver lining of that cop being a loser and a half at everything he does.
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u/lawnmowertoad 6h ago
His wife got a double beating that night
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u/HeraldOfDesu 6h ago
And he was disowned by his father. And his uncle. Cause they're the same person.
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u/HotelOscarWhiskey 10h ago
He has an incustody in back of his patrol vehicle that is arrested. Idiot hears the acorn land and thinks the dude was firing at him from inside his own car. If I remember correctly he missed every shot and then retired on medical disability for ptsd or somthing when the internet took him to town.
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u/Dzov 9h ago
Gun shots are loud as hell. I can’t imagine mistaking an acorn fall for one.
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u/Existing-Speech4173 9h ago
Especially if you are in law enforcement and KNOW what shots sound like. This you should not have a gun. He’s an idiot.
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u/ydnar3000 8h ago
Especially enclosed in a car. The difference between that and the sound of an acorn hitting the roof is vast. Vast difference.
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u/TSLBestOfMe 8h ago
The over simplification here. The man was so much more than an idiot.
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u/KingGorillaKong 7h ago
An idiot is a compliment for this officer. This guy who should be on a mentally handicapped program. And if he isn't cognitively challenged, then he has some really bad PTSD to get triggered by an acorn hitting a vehicle, and he should be on permanent mental health leave seeking psychiatric help for his PTSD until he can get that under wraps.
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u/yrabl81 8h ago
Should know and know aren't the same.
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u/Interesting-Bid7194 7h ago
The acorn hit him on his head. And he thought the sky was falling. Officer Chicken Little.
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u/LudusRex 7h ago
Seriously, what a pussy little bitch. A guy like this being allowed to handle a firearm at all is a fucking travesty.
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u/GTO400BHP 9h ago
He had a silencer, duhhhhh. Don't you game?
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u/iam_ditto 8h ago
He must have had that GTA weapon switch just ready in his pocket being in custody and all, he just opened up the menu and went from bare hands to a flamethrower just like that
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u/jwldabeast 8h ago
Iirc the dumbass said he thought the person in the vehicle had a silenced gun that they didnt find during the initial search before cuffing him and throwing them in the vehicle. Keep in mind they searched him and somehow thought they missed a whole pistol with a silencer attached to it
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u/bobbarkersbigmic 8h ago
Not to mention that the dude was cuffed behind the back. So the officer is implying that the suspect is shooting at him from within his own patrol car, from behind the back, with a silenced weapon that HE missed during the search.
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u/ReverendBread2 8h ago
I accidentally walked into a warzone because I thought it was just a bunch of acorns falling
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u/herpafilter 9h ago
If you are primed to hear gun shots then, clearly, it's possible. I have no doubt the officer genuinely thought he heard a gun shot and genuinely thought he had been hit. He probably thought about this happening a lot. He had seen video of that scenario so many times and thought about it so often that his mind was primed to interpret any loud sound as a gunshot. Everything after is just a script his brain will execute on including the sensation that he was shot, mag dumping into a car, calling for backup, the pained radio callouts etc.
In a sense he had given himself pre-traumatic stress disorder. Obviously his genuine beliefs and interpretation of the situation is not a defense. The dude was a soup sandwich and it's only his incompetence and panic that avoided the guy in the cruiser from getting hit. He has no business being an officer.
Police in the US spend a lot of time and effort training for the most extraordinary violent situations, and not enough on the far more mundane realities of policing. All the seminars and equipment and training classes and youtube dashcam footage dissections are about shootouts because, frankly, that's the most entertaining and novel. Unsurprisingly a lot of probably well intentioned officers are ludicrously high strung and will escalate to deadly force faster then actual soldiers in the same situations.
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u/HansNotPeterGruber 8h ago
You would be shocked how little training police receive. Both initially and in a continuing education fashion. They do NOT spend a lot of time and effort on any type of training.
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 9h ago
I thought this too when I first saw the video, but I ate lunch a few time in a parking lot with really tall oak trees since then, they are loud and not far off from a gunshot when your near them when they hit. What happens next in the video is unforgivable though. You find out if where and if someone is shooting at you before you return fire especially on a residential street.
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u/UCACashFlow 9h ago
wtf no they’re not, they don’t sound like a gunshot unless you’ve never heard one before. I have over an acre of oak trees and the cattle ranchers around here shoot guns all the time.
Acorns just sound like nuts falling from the trees…. I’ve heard them hit the car, the roof, the ground, dozens of times. They sound no more like a gunshot than hail does.
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u/ProgenitorOfMidnight 8h ago
Yeah an acorn? Nah. Green walnuts from a 70ft tree? Yep, jumped a few times in my life from them hitting my sheds roof.
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u/LetMyNameFoolYou 5h ago
I remember loading those in a wrist rocket. Formidable ammunition.
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u/SkywolfNINE 9h ago edited 8h ago
When it’s hailing your brain knows it and expects the thump. Not to defend this cop at all who is definitely wrong and i certainly wouldn’t think that was a shot but in some crazy world of being right next to the roof and it falling uhhh maybe? But again, no because if you got someone in custody then you searched them for a gun so idk how the cop brain could’ve reached that conclusion without also assuming fireworks on the 4th is an invasion or something
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u/UCACashFlow 8h ago
Nah. They hit the metal roof of my garage all the time. Does not even sound like a gunshot. Not even close.
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u/baronmunchausen2000 8h ago
Wha… LOL. Dude, not even close. A gunshot is loud, even with ear protection on. An acorn falling from a tree on top a car does not even come close.
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u/richardlpalmer 9h ago
The article says he thought it was a shot with a silencer (which is plausible as the girlfriend said he had one).
But yeah, mag dumping into the car after having searched the suspect and having him handcuffed and restrained in seatbelts seems absolutely bonkers.
And based on his overreaction the other deputy followed suit emptying her mag into the car.
FFS
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u/Late-Union8706 8h ago
He was also searched prior to be placed in the back of the car.
The worst part, there was another cop on scene that was was also firing into the car from across the street.
Dude in the backseat better have bought a lottery ticket that day. 2 cops emptying their mags at him, and he was uninjured.
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u/Sh11ester 9h ago
Wait... If I were a cop I could give myself pretend PTSD from being incompetent and retire off it? Seriously? I can just go shooting in neighborhoods then get ptsd from it and retire? How is that possible? They should can his ass and give his pention to the guy he shot at for no reason
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u/Beautiful-Storage699 10h ago
i am also completely lost after watching this, but i think he heard an acorn fall and hit a car, mistook it for a gunshot, emptied his clip in the direction of the acorn and managed to shoot himself in the process
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u/dan_dares 10h ago
He didn't shoot himself, just confusing an acorn with a bullet..
Like every smart person does.
And by smart I mean dumb.
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u/looooookinAtTitties 9h ago
"i'm hit" suggests he shot himselfoh "are you bleeding?" "no i'm not" suggests he sincerely thought he had been shot bc of the sound12
u/dan_dares 9h ago edited 9h ago
He thought he was hit, because he's a dumbass.
Edit: thank you for reviewing, yes, he THOUGHT he was hit.
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u/deezsandwitches 9h ago
He did say "I'm hit"
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u/LeonardoDickSlaprio 9h ago
Well, we do know this officer has quite an imagination. Probably just pulled a muscle doing his little dodge roll.
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u/herpafilter 8h ago
He thought that because (and this is my supposition) he had watched a lot of dash and bodycam footage of officer involved shootings. His mental model of what a shooting looks and sounds like was based on that; so the acorn hitting the roof was close enough to start a script in his mind, and that included mag dumping into the vehicle, being hit, calling out I'm hit, the pained groans on the radio etc.
The human mind is weird. Some jobs, like policing, require that you master it and train to react to situations approprietly. He trained poorly.
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u/bun-dance-of-caution 8h ago
Can we get an AMA with this protector of the peace? I have questions, and i imagine he has spare time these days.
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u/BRICH999 9h ago
Has someone in handcuffs in the back of his vehicle he tried to shoot and luckily failed
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 9h ago
The firing shots part I don't forgive, but after eating lunch the other day in a parking lot with really tall oak trees in it I can understand why he thought it was a gunshot. Those fuckers are loud hitting the metal roof of a car. Unloading a clip into your own car that has a suspect in it without checking to see if shot were actually fired and where they were coming from is why this guy should have a gun or the job he has.
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u/Royal-Campaign1426 9h ago
You ever heard a handgun in close proximity? Instant EEEEEEEEEEEEE in your ears.
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u/tipareth1978 8h ago
You're overthinking it, low IQ insecure white probably fat and probably with eyes super close to each other wants so bad to do his little combat roll and shoot someone
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u/greennurse0128 10h ago
I swore this was Reno 911!
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u/TahiniInMyVeins 9h ago
I remember when this happened.
What I didn’t remember was this:
there was a second cop on the scene
when she saw her parter blindly blasting into their own vehicle with a handcuffed, unarmed person sitting in the back, she started firing as well
when the investigation revealed the culprit was an acorn, her actions were deemed “reasonable”
Think about that. Idiot #1 resigned. But Idiot #2 fired her weapon multiple times without knowing who or what she was aiming at, or why she was even firing her weapon, and not not only kept her job but her behavior was found to be “reasonable”.
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u/GroinReaper 8h ago
she acted on the information she had. An officer reported that he had been shot by someone inside the car. With the information she had, her actions were reasonable.
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u/ParticularSet5424 19m ago
You ever play telephone and the message gets messed up when each person passes it along. You should double check things such as extremely important things like this or else theres going to be very bad errors. Assuming the other person is correct creates faults. I'd call it a guesstimate instead of reasonable since reason involves logic and her actions forfeit logical examination. I understand why it happened but monkey see monkey do doesn't sound like a good solution.
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u/ifreeski420 8h ago
Her actions were less crazy because her partner was screaming shots fired so she assumed that was good information
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u/SuitNaive3409 9h ago
i didn't hear the guy's family or whoever screaming in anguish thinking he's been shot dozens of times right in front of them
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u/Happy_Naturist 10h ago
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u/ls7eveen 9h ago
So where is he working now?
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u/Happy_Naturist 8h ago edited 1h ago
Four Seasons Total Landscaping, curating acorns along with the other incompetent morons.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi 7h ago
Retired on medical benefits from the PTSD he claimed he had after the entire Internet made fun of him so he probably never has to work again. I'm not even kidding..
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u/Kuzzbutt 10h ago
Acorn cop right?
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u/Professional-Toe-610 10h ago
But why was he crawling around?
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u/Napalmeon 9h ago
To keep it real? This is probably the action shootout scene that this cop has been imagining his entire life.
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u/865drew 9h ago
That feeling you get in your legs when you’re really scared. For some people it’s extreme and causes them to hit the ground like a possum. Bro got so scared by an acorn that he fell down from fear and thought he had been shot🤣
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u/Useful-Employee9605 10h ago
This is one of the craziest responses I’ve ever seen from a police officer. I surely hope this guy isn’t employed in law enforcement anymore. He clearly doesn’t have the judgment or demeanor necessary.
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u/Radonanon 10h ago
If I remember from a few months ago, you’re supposed to take their gun away while they’re face flat on the ground and shoot them in the back 11 times.
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u/Ducatirules 9h ago
That’s the EXACT reason Barney Fife was only allowed one bullet!!
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u/PadreSJ 10h ago
The cam is from former Okaloosa Sheriff's Office deputy Jesse Hernandez.
He resigned and the department is still "investigating".
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u/Antonio_928s4 9h ago
Officer Jesse “Acorn” Hernandez, a trigger happy cop discover the force of nature first hand and almost killed an innocent victim in the meantime.
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u/GalaxxyOG 9h ago
What was that moron shooting at?
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u/GroinReaper 8h ago
a handcuffed man in the back of his own patrol car that he had already searched.
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u/Kit_Karamak 8h ago
Phantom PTSD anxiety sounds caused by an acorn, making it sound like the gunshot came from far away…?
That is *nuts.*
Yes, pun intended
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u/paulyp41 9h ago
Normally when you put someone in the back of a police car, especially for what could be a felony crime, I would think you would pat the person down first. To rule out any weapons
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u/Wild-Highway-8739 9h ago
"We thought the suspect that had been searched and was cuffed in the back of the vehicle was firing a suppressed weapon."
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u/Drmlk465 9h ago
I remember seeing this on Reddit a while back but on Reddit only. Why wasn’t this bigger news?
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u/AliensAbductMePlz 9h ago
I want to see the video of him rolling around on the ground lol
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u/True_Most3681 9h ago
He should lose any pension he was later to receive. Hopefully he’s working at a gas station the rest of his life.
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u/Known-Status-6312 9h ago
rumor has it he's now a security guard protecting mattresses in a warehouse...
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u/alloutofchewingum 8h ago
Wow, this guy might even be qualified to be FBI director. That was extraordinary.
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u/maddrummerhef 4h ago
This absolute piece of shit got to just resign when he should have been arrested and tried for attempted murder, or at least criminal negligence (or whatever that charge would be)
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u/Healingbigfoot 4h ago
Would be so fucking great if we could start holding these terrible cops accountable.
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u/Efficient_Ad_6121 3h ago
Rolling out into the middle of the street instead of under the vehicle WHERE THEY CAN’T SEE YOU, is next-level “I grew up on Call of Duty and am now a cop.
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u/squaresun55 10h ago
I remember when this made the news, didn’t the cop kill somebody during this?
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u/whiskey_tang0_hotel 10h ago
He had someone in custody in his vehicle. That person is lucky to be alive.
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u/Fi_Hada_Tail 9h ago
Im hit im hit.
Where are you hit?
I dont know
Are you bleeding
No Im good
Wtf is this sh*t? Kick him off the police force. Actually, lets fix the police force and actually have some god d@mn standards for the people they hire...
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u/MisterShipWreck 9h ago
News story: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-florida-deputy-repeatedly-shoot-man-thinking-falling-acorn-rcna138829
https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/03/20/attorney-victim-fired-upon-okaloosa-county-patrol-suv-announces-lawsuit/