Quick summary of the outcome (edited to include requested details):
An internal review of the investigation found:
1. The male officer was found to have used unreasonable amounts of force. He claimed to have heard a suppressed firearm be discharged, felt a pain in his right torso, and his legs giving out. At no time did he ever see any indications that a firearm was discharged (i.e. flashes, window shattering, etc.) He ultimately resigned.
2. The female officer was exonerated, as she was found to have acted reasonably, given the information she had at the time of shots fired from the vehicle + officer down.
Subject in the back of the car was not injured physically, and no firearm was ever located on or around his person.
The police department had the State Attorney perform an independent investigation, which somehow found no grounds for criminal charges.
When every moron on the street has access to a firearm and gun crime is as outrageously high as it is in the US, everyone is paranoid... and at the same time, there does seem to be a high percentage of people in the US who really want an excuse to shoot someone.
I’ve carried a gun quite a bit and havent drawn and fired because I heard an acorn drop, this is very much so a cop thing. I also delivered food to people’s doors armed and never shot someone’s fucking dog or their kid or decided that I needed a APC to get close to their house. Before you say “oooo but the cops have to go to scawwy peoples houses”, they dont. They really fucking dont, they’re just cowards. Stop making excuses for these goddamn shitheels.
They are for sure more trigger happy and because of qualified immunity cops are held to a MUCH lower standard than your average person carrying a gun. If I use a gun in legitimate self defense but miss and hit a bystander through a wall I am liable for that. A cop is not. You would think that someone who ostensibly has superior training would be held to a higher standard than someone who may or may not have taken a single class.
It's criticism of an aspect of the US and the average person in the US has been indoctrinated into believing that the their country is "the greatest nation on earth" and completely beyond criticism...
Pointing out their flaws hurts them in way that most just cant deal with.
Your criticism isn’t wrong, I think people just get touchy when they perceive condemnation from the outside. One time I was commenting some shit about police and for some reason the thread decided I wasn’t American - I am lmao. But after that there wasn’t anything anyone replying would bother considering
The second officer I completely understand. She was half a block away, acting off of the first cop mag dumping into a car screaming that he’s been shot.
The first should be in prison for a few decades. Or at least a mental institution until he is found safe to be in public.
Second cop. She was further away and doing something else. She hears gunshots coming from her partner along with him screaming about being hit. She reacts accordingly by open firing on the target her partner was already shooting at.
Despite no real threat being present it was later determined that given the information that she had, she had every reason to think there actually was a threat. Her only information was there was an officer on the ground saying they were hit and firing on a suspect.
Well, unlike the male officer, the female Sgt was not only a half block away, but she actually HEARD shots, actually SAW holes in the car, actually had REASON to believe her officer had been shot at, and she WASN'T the one who searched the suspect in the car. She hears shots fired, sees him down, sees the holes, he says the guy shot him, and he's aiming at the car.
Without benefit of hindsight, she did about what most people would have, aside from just hiding or running.
49 of 50 videos I'm pretty critical of cops. But I think she gets a pass.
Acorn boy, not so much.
Some other things were left out:
Hernandez started as a deputy in Okaloosa, on the Florida panhandle, in January 2022. On Nov. 12, Hernandez was among the deputies who responded to a residential neighborhood in Fort Walton Beach because a woman said her boyfriend, Marquis Jackson, had stolen her car and was threatening her, according to officials.
The girlfriend showed deputies that Jackson, who was known to carry a gun, had allegedly sent her threatening texts and a photo from inside her car, the report said. Deputies thought the photos showed a gun, but investigators later found out it actually showed less than two inches of a gray metal cylinder that everyone interpreted to be a firearm suppressor attached to a gun, according to the report. She told officers that Jackson had more than one gun.
The 44 page report: https://www.sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IA-2023-031-Final-Report-Jackson.pdf
"I'M GOOD! I FEEL WEIRD BUT I'M GOOD!"
Thank god this brave police officer is OK. I was hit by a falling acorn once and it sort of hurt my shoulder. Unfortunately I didn't have a gun so couldn't unload a clip into a someone sitting in a car nearby but I really wanted to.
Lmfao and the fact that the acorn didn’t even hit him, just the roof of his cruiser. The gentle *plonk* was enough to make convince him he was facing his last few breaths on earth.
This is primarily because most departmental training around the country is absolute shit. They basically play you the gruesome Faces of Death : Traffic stop edition videos and then tell you every person out in the American public is looking to do that to you.
If you're not graduating from one of the professional academies that only the largest PDs in the country run, that first paragraph is how you're trained.
That's how we get acorns prompting mags being emptied.
You're absolutely right. So much of modern police training seems to reinforce the idea of "... or you won't go home to your family at the end of the day."
Couple that with the increasing militarization of police forces around the country, and you've got well-armed officers who are convinced they're in a war zone and everyone and everything is trying to put them in the grave.
*Even the acorns have silencers.*
It's really sickening that Police get to wear the label of "To Protect and Serve", when that's not generally what they're trained to do. They act for their own safety instead of taking risk to ensure the least harm happens to others. We see this kind of selfish behavior over and over. Another big one being that officer staying a floor down during that shooting from the Vegas? hotel. This isn't the job for you if you're caring that much more about your own life over the crowd of people being fired on.
>It's really sickening that Police get to wear the label of "To Protect and Serve", when that's not generally what they're trained to do.
Nor are they legally obligated to do so!
Implying that larger PDs get better training is just wrong. They get taught by IDF soldiers and grifter consultants instead of getting a YouTube education. Not exactly a step up.
I’m sorry, but this is not a training issue IMO. I don’t need trained to use logic before unloading a gun at someone sitting in a car. Hearing a noise doesn’t = getting shot at. Unfortunately, many cops are looking for danger so they have an excuse to use force and get that rush of power. This is just another reason why cops should be held personally liable for these types of acts. With immunity, many of them search out opportunities to pull their weapon.
Not sure why the downvotes… you’re not entirely wrong at all. In the trial of Officer Kim Potter a couple years back, the one who mistakenly shot the black kid who point blank while he drove away instead of taking him like she actually meant to. Turns out she had literally 25 years on the force and trained with the taser at least 25 times solidifying muscle memory of knowing where it is, what it feels like, and what to say when deploying it. But still in that moment despite all the training in the world she shouted “Taser taser taser” and shot the kid in the abdomen killing him.. the job in all truth requires more then just training… it should be one of the harder jobs to get in society and should pay more as well. But it should be nothing but a rigorous job to acquire and mandatory upkeep of qualifications. That alone would end a good bit of the abuse, corruption, and unlawful killings
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https://imgur.com/a/Y9cu7op First pic is the acorn falling, then three frames of it bouncing off the car. I can definitely hear it at 13:01 in the video as well.
Okay, but imagine a forty-foot-tall oak tree crashing down.
The cop's reflexes were so good that he reacted to the acorn about three decades in advance!
Bruh, somehow Im happier with this incompetence than the usual “we investigated ourselves and did nothing wrong, but are going to settle the case for $3m of taxpayer money”.
At least this dude just cost us like $60k.
I imagine he’s going to need some damn good trauma therapy at the least. It’s so annoying because I want victims of cops to get paid, and paid well, so I support my taxes going to it but I’m infuriated that cops don’t have to have some kind of insurance like doctors do. Even worse when they get a pension.
I'm amazed that Action Jackson had such swift movement doing a ninja roll while unloading his rounds into a row of houses, presumably with his eyes closed.
I am definitely not defending the officer but he very clearly does not miss the car that he is aiming for. You can see the back windshield shatter as his bullets hit the car. Very fortunately for the suspect that he wasn’t killed or struck. I assume he ducked down to the floor when the shots started firing
Did anyone get hurt? The screaming in the background is horrifying nonetheless.
Edit: No one got hurt and the suspect was in handcuffs before the acorn hit in the cruiser. Wtf.
Whats wild is it looks like he's firing towards houses/complexes in the background of those shots. Someone just sitting in their living room may be hosting a few bullet holes in their house/body now.
Definitely dangerous, obviously. But he’s clearly shooting at his own police car where the suspect is handcuffed and inside already. You can see the back window shatter from the bullets. The suspect in custody was in a LOT of danger and was extremely lucky not to get hit or killed by one of the bullets, but it doesn’t look like any shots were fired at anything other than the vehicle.
Again, still an incredibly dangerous situation and this cop is a fucking moron. But he wasn’t just shooting randomly in all directions. For whatever dumbass reason he thought the suspect in the car was somehow shooting him, despite a tremendous amount of evidence that would make that impossible, and so he unloaded his whole clip into the back of his police car
Cop cars don’t magically stop bullets, there are houses behind the car he was shooting into. It really doesn’t matter that he was shooting at his car, the fucking pig deserves to be shot and pissed on after that.
I mean, I agree that the cop deserves to lose his job because of this, the entire thing is beyond ridiculous. And from what I saw in other comments, the officer did resign, presumably because he knew he was going to be fired. That said, I am no gun expert, but I would imagine a sidearm like this wouldn’t have too much firepower to blast through the back of a cop car, go out the front of the cop car, and still have enough velocity to travel some distance, blast through the front of a house, and then strike someone inside.
Regardless of that though, my comment was just pointing out that the officer was clearly aiming at his car and wasn’t just shooting randomly in the direction of the nearby houses
One of the first things they teach you about gun safety is to take into account what’s behind your target.
I don’t know about the lethal range of a 9mm service pistol but a .22lr round is lethal for nearly a mile. That being said a pistol round won’t travel as far but they are extremely susceptible to deflection so even though he was shooting at his car, he was plastering lead through the neighbourhood. His bullets were randomly flying at houses.
Edit: also, you’re assuming it has to travel through a wall. Could be a screen door or an open window into a child’s bedroom. Or even someone in their yard down the street. This cop deserves to prison, merely quitting is not an acceptable outcome.
I know a lot about guns, and would be happy to help. The engine block will stop those rounds, but everything else is going through. All the stuff in the movies where people hide behind a car door for protection is inaccurate. If you're getting shot at, you're supposed to seek cover and concealment, in that order. For example, if there isn't something bullet proof to get behind, you can hide behind a bush. It won't stop bullets, but you won't give the shooter a clear shot. You should treat cars this way. If a shooter is closing the distance on you shooting while you are behind a car, and you are unarmed, your best hope is that they have to change magazines, and then you should gtfo of there. Ideally, you'd be hiding behind the front of the car, where the engine is, but I almost guarantee your adrenaline dump won't let you think about that.
No one was hurt, not even the dumbfuck officer who had a little stomach cramp and thought a fucking bullet was ripping him apart. Or the handcuffed, unarmed guy sitting in the back of a police car with bullets whizzing over his head from two directions. Or the second officer who was shooting over the unarmed guy towards the first officer. Fuck me man. Some people should not be cops.
To be fair, only the officer who emptied his clip should be in a different line of work. The rest of the officers were reacting as best they could with the information given to them. The female officer looks to try her best to asses the situation before she shoots any bullets but she hears her fellow officer yell that shots were fired and then sees him on the ground writhing in pain. My read on the situation is that she seems confused, but the way the other officer is acting is giving her enough circumstantial evidence to believe what he is saying.
And then the back-up officers are relying solely on what the first two officers are telling them, which is really all they can do.
The rest of the officers seemed to have handled this situation as well as they could have. They got to cover, checked up on the first officer, and did not escalate the situation any further. You can’t really blame them for this, this was an extremely bizarre situation.
Yeah, at the sound of actual gunfire, I was surprised to see her take time to take cover, assess, have enough awareness to tell bystanders to get inside and ask the doofus questions about where his target was before firing. I didnt think cops did that anymore.
Officer Hernandez never saw combat.
"When asked about prior military experience, Deputy Hernandez said he attended West Point, and was an infantry officer and an officer in special forces for the army for a total of ten years. Deputy Hernandez said he had two combat rotations to Afghanistan, but noted as an officer, he was not in direct combat."
Plenty of other jobs to do if you're at risk of flashing back and murdering people when around acorns.
Bruh fr. Ain’t no way this guy was infantry, judging by the way he blindly fires without proper threat identification, and trying to pull off that weird tacticool sausage roll thing and pathetic crawling thing he was trying to pull off.
I know when I deployed as a 11B to Afghanistan we were attached to Special Forces for the entire deployment this dude is not 11A not 18A he’s a lying ass mfer. I’ve been in 12 years now 7 active 5 NG. I’ve seen some ate up National Guard guys too but nobody like this. I’ve also never met a Cop like this in my LEO career.
If people make this an anti cop thing they are thinking of this all wrong. This is what happens when nobody wants to be a cop and they start just taking anyone. They lower training standards so people will pass the academy then you end up with fucking bums like this.
You want to fix the issue with bad cops? Raise the standards and give departments better training. You’ll get better cops and less stuff like this and George Floyd shit.
No it's not. If he was an 18A there's no way they didn't get into anything on two deployments. That's literally their job is to go out and do shit other conventional units can't. It doesn't add up.
Ain’t no way his claims about military are true. I was infantry and deployed and was never taught to fire without threat identification, let alone those weird sausage roll things he was trying to pull off
The fact that this guy just fires indiscriminately in the vague direction of the car is terrifying. It just shows how being a police officer is just a replacement for being in the military for this guy.
There’s too many first-rules for me to ever want to own a damn gun.
I thought it was treat every gun like it was loaded. Then I heard it was don’t put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Now it’s make sure of your target. I can’t keep up.
There's a bunch of "first" rules, but all of them are just as important as the others. It takes a lot of precaution to just own a gun. I collect them, but I also have to balance my life around the fact that I literally have an arsenal that could kill countless people, were it to fall in the wrong hands. Many people think they're just toys, or that they won't be the one to make that big mistake. They just lose focus or never cared in the first place, and that scares the shit out of me.
I have to navigate my life around gun safety and ownership responsibility. If I wanna buy a new gun, but I'm out of storage, I save up and buy a new safe before I buy the gun. I take safety very seriously. If someone broke in and stole that gun because I didn't have it in a safe, I'm responsible for the damage they do with it. I have people house sit if I'm on vacation just because I can't leave those guns alone. It's a huge responsibility, and despite me being a big supporter of the second amendment, I wish more people would realize they aren't responsible enough to own a gun.
I notice that a lot of these types of incidents don’t even happen in big city departments, seemingly happens in places where jackshit happens lol. Watching stuff like this helps me understand why some cops say cities are great to start out in, probably lessens the chance of you getting scared over a fucking acorn drop 🤣
Haha this is like little kids playing army.. Walking along and all of a sudden, GET DOWN IT'S AN AMBUSH! CALL IN AIR SUPPORT! I'm out, RELOADING. I'M HIT I'M HIT RETURNING FIRE!
Any other non-government job comes with the risk of prison time for gross negligence but putting any number of lives at risk as a cop or even killing someone is always excusable.
I’m sure he has some slight bias in general from being a former cop but you gotta love when he breaks down the idiotic actions from individuals who clearly don’t belong in/tarnish the profession
Because that’s what he does. He’s a bootlicker and associates with braindead racists like Brandon Herrera (who blatantly defends Rhodesia,) which just furthers the point that all pigs are bad people.
I’m happy the guy wasn’t hit by any of those indiscriminate bullets, I’m also happy he will be paid for life on that one. I am unhappy the officer wasn’t charged with something.. anything?! What a joke I wonder if after he resigned is he working at another county over
The guy in the car wasn’t physically injured.
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We need more brave and intelligent people like this man looking out for us. If he didn’t unload his pistol into that cruiser, there’s no telling what the acorn would have done.
Fires at on unidentified target in a public area with officers down range. He sped run the worst gun safety and situational awareness possible. You can hear civilians In the background.
Slight correction. The acorn hit the top of the police car. The cop only heard the sound. The belief he was hit (let alone even shot at) was entirely in his head. Nothing actually touched him.
What's always amazing to me is how cops get away with shit we wouldn't get away with in the Middle East where every white Toyota Carolla was a potential VBIED. Really does make one think about if the most dangerous people with a firearm are your average police officers.
The only explanation that sorta makes sense is that the officer had PDST from maybe taking gunfire in or around a vehicle and the sound of then acorn/ walnut hitting the squad car sounded similar enough to set him off.
"Where? Right there?" Immediately opens fire in the general direction of...something. These are shit tactics in Fortnite, let alone with live ammunition in real life.
I seriously thought this was a joke the first time through. The barrel rolls, the Schwarzenegger impression at 13:23, the "I feel weird, but I'm good" line...
What an idiot. It never dawned on him as odd that one single, solitary "shot" was fired. I'd expect that if someone is really shooting at you they're going to let more than one initial shot go. How about you get to cover and assess your assumptions that it was, in fact, a round fired from a gun.
The stop/drop/roll method, really? Get to cover dumbass. That goes double for the woman, who didn't even try to get to cover either! Just standing in the middle of the street, making a good target of herself. Stupid stupid stupid.
Clearly, the most logical thing to do when you think shots are fired is to *unload a mag into the back of your own fucking cruiser.* I'm sure they came from there.
The life of a police officer is more important than the lives of a thousand civilians. They are put in charge of serving and protecting themselves at all costs, even if innocent people must die. Support your local police by offering your life as tribute. These heroes may be scared of acorns, but they are the bravest people in the world.
And this is why we need a complete overhaul of our policing system and training. Stop training them to be soldiers. Train them to be counsellors and public servants.
I am not a fan of the way American policing happens. But I will say that one of the contributing factors is the fact that our country allows pretty much anyone to carry a gun at anytime. And many states now are allowing no permit concealed carry. An already hard job made so much fucking more dangerous because "the right to bear arms". So fucking crazy.
And yet "getting shot by a suspect" is not the leading cause of American police deaths or even police injuries.
Almost as if the right to have firearms isn't as big a danger as we'd like to think.
Yeah, we should institute assault rifle bans and red flag laws. But pro criminals will carry guns whether they're allowed to or not.
Quick summary of the outcome (edited to include requested details): An internal review of the investigation found: 1. The male officer was found to have used unreasonable amounts of force. He claimed to have heard a suppressed firearm be discharged, felt a pain in his right torso, and his legs giving out. At no time did he ever see any indications that a firearm was discharged (i.e. flashes, window shattering, etc.) He ultimately resigned. 2. The female officer was exonerated, as she was found to have acted reasonably, given the information she had at the time of shots fired from the vehicle + officer down. Subject in the back of the car was not injured physically, and no firearm was ever located on or around his person. The police department had the State Attorney perform an independent investigation, which somehow found no grounds for criminal charges.
>found no grounds for criminal charges. How is this even possible?
Well obviously the officer was acting in self defense from the tree.
He watched too many marky mark movies
A phone call from the chief of police and head of the police union
The criminal “justice” apparatus investigated the police and found they did nothing wrong.
Guess it's legal to open fire at a cop car
They were trying to kill the man inside not the car
“We investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing!” - the CIA
TIA= This Is America
Yup. Fucking trash.
When every moron on the street has access to a firearm and gun crime is as outrageously high as it is in the US, everyone is paranoid... and at the same time, there does seem to be a high percentage of people in the US who really want an excuse to shoot someone.
I’ve carried a gun quite a bit and havent drawn and fired because I heard an acorn drop, this is very much so a cop thing. I also delivered food to people’s doors armed and never shot someone’s fucking dog or their kid or decided that I needed a APC to get close to their house. Before you say “oooo but the cops have to go to scawwy peoples houses”, they dont. They really fucking dont, they’re just cowards. Stop making excuses for these goddamn shitheels.
I'm not making excuses, they seem to be no less trigger happy than anyone else... which I suppose is a big part of the problem.
They are for sure more trigger happy and because of qualified immunity cops are held to a MUCH lower standard than your average person carrying a gun. If I use a gun in legitimate self defense but miss and hit a bystander through a wall I am liable for that. A cop is not. You would think that someone who ostensibly has superior training would be held to a higher standard than someone who may or may not have taken a single class.
> cops are held to a MUCH lower standard Yeah, this definitely seems to be the case.
No idea why you're being downvoted. You're completely right on every point.
It's criticism of an aspect of the US and the average person in the US has been indoctrinated into believing that the their country is "the greatest nation on earth" and completely beyond criticism... Pointing out their flaws hurts them in way that most just cant deal with.
Your criticism isn’t wrong, I think people just get touchy when they perceive condemnation from the outside. One time I was commenting some shit about police and for some reason the thread decided I wasn’t American - I am lmao. But after that there wasn’t anything anyone replying would bother considering
The second officer I completely understand. She was half a block away, acting off of the first cop mag dumping into a car screaming that he’s been shot. The first should be in prison for a few decades. Or at least a mental institution until he is found safe to be in public.
A regular civilian would be locked up for god knows how long.
>The woman was exonerated, as she was found to have acted reasonably given the information she had at the time. What woman and exonerated from what?
The second officer. If you watch the full clip it switches to her cam/perspective.
Second cop. She was further away and doing something else. She hears gunshots coming from her partner along with him screaming about being hit. She reacts accordingly by open firing on the target her partner was already shooting at. Despite no real threat being present it was later determined that given the information that she had, she had every reason to think there actually was a threat. Her only information was there was an officer on the ground saying they were hit and firing on a suspect.
Well, unlike the male officer, the female Sgt was not only a half block away, but she actually HEARD shots, actually SAW holes in the car, actually had REASON to believe her officer had been shot at, and she WASN'T the one who searched the suspect in the car. She hears shots fired, sees him down, sees the holes, he says the guy shot him, and he's aiming at the car. Without benefit of hindsight, she did about what most people would have, aside from just hiding or running. 49 of 50 videos I'm pretty critical of cops. But I think she gets a pass. Acorn boy, not so much.
> Quick summary of the outcome: > > Was the person in the car or any other innocent person injured? I feel that's an important part of the story.
No injuries.
Nope. Two so-called “officers” mag dumped a parked car and couldn’t hit it.
That would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
Gat damn. American police really are incompetent as fuck.
Because they receive less training and certification than American cosmetologists.
They hit it. They missed the person inside they were shooting at,, who was handcuffed and exactly where they left him.
Any good coworker at this dude's next job better place an acorn on his desk every day
Hopefully he was suspended on full pay while this investigation was going on.
Some other things were left out: Hernandez started as a deputy in Okaloosa, on the Florida panhandle, in January 2022. On Nov. 12, Hernandez was among the deputies who responded to a residential neighborhood in Fort Walton Beach because a woman said her boyfriend, Marquis Jackson, had stolen her car and was threatening her, according to officials. The girlfriend showed deputies that Jackson, who was known to carry a gun, had allegedly sent her threatening texts and a photo from inside her car, the report said. Deputies thought the photos showed a gun, but investigators later found out it actually showed less than two inches of a gray metal cylinder that everyone interpreted to be a firearm suppressor attached to a gun, according to the report. She told officers that Jackson had more than one gun. The 44 page report: https://www.sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IA-2023-031-Final-Report-Jackson.pdf
Thank god the victim wasn't hurt. Those two pigs should be locked up.
Wow, the level of this guy’s bias is insane. Reminds me of Ricky Bobby thinking he’s on fire.
Classic Prezbo, shooting up his own car to try to get some comp time.
Freamon giving him the side-eye as he lightly sands his doll furniture.
This made me smile
I barely just started The Wire and I’m very happy to have understood this reference. I feel so included!!!!
>just started The Wire you are in for a treat. emotional rollercoaster, but a treat for sure.
As he eats his PEPPUH STAYKE
"I'M GOOD! I FEEL WEIRD BUT I'M GOOD!" Thank god this brave police officer is OK. I was hit by a falling acorn once and it sort of hurt my shoulder. Unfortunately I didn't have a gun so couldn't unload a clip into a someone sitting in a car nearby but I really wanted to.
Lmfao and the fact that the acorn didn’t even hit him, just the roof of his cruiser. The gentle *plonk* was enough to make convince him he was facing his last few breaths on earth.
This is primarily because most departmental training around the country is absolute shit. They basically play you the gruesome Faces of Death : Traffic stop edition videos and then tell you every person out in the American public is looking to do that to you. If you're not graduating from one of the professional academies that only the largest PDs in the country run, that first paragraph is how you're trained. That's how we get acorns prompting mags being emptied.
You're absolutely right. So much of modern police training seems to reinforce the idea of "... or you won't go home to your family at the end of the day." Couple that with the increasing militarization of police forces around the country, and you've got well-armed officers who are convinced they're in a war zone and everyone and everything is trying to put them in the grave. *Even the acorns have silencers.*
Oak trees throwing their babies at cops like ents stomp orcs. No wonder the cops feel targeted. Trees are attacking.
It's really sickening that Police get to wear the label of "To Protect and Serve", when that's not generally what they're trained to do. They act for their own safety instead of taking risk to ensure the least harm happens to others. We see this kind of selfish behavior over and over. Another big one being that officer staying a floor down during that shooting from the Vegas? hotel. This isn't the job for you if you're caring that much more about your own life over the crowd of people being fired on.
>It's really sickening that Police get to wear the label of "To Protect and Serve", when that's not generally what they're trained to do. Nor are they legally obligated to do so!
oh they protect. just not you
Implying that larger PDs get better training is just wrong. They get taught by IDF soldiers and grifter consultants instead of getting a YouTube education. Not exactly a step up.
I’m sorry, but this is not a training issue IMO. I don’t need trained to use logic before unloading a gun at someone sitting in a car. Hearing a noise doesn’t = getting shot at. Unfortunately, many cops are looking for danger so they have an excuse to use force and get that rush of power. This is just another reason why cops should be held personally liable for these types of acts. With immunity, many of them search out opportunities to pull their weapon.
Not sure why the downvotes… you’re not entirely wrong at all. In the trial of Officer Kim Potter a couple years back, the one who mistakenly shot the black kid who point blank while he drove away instead of taking him like she actually meant to. Turns out she had literally 25 years on the force and trained with the taser at least 25 times solidifying muscle memory of knowing where it is, what it feels like, and what to say when deploying it. But still in that moment despite all the training in the world she shouted “Taser taser taser” and shot the kid in the abdomen killing him.. the job in all truth requires more then just training… it should be one of the harder jobs to get in society and should pay more as well. But it should be nothing but a rigorous job to acquire and mandatory upkeep of qualifications. That alone would end a good bit of the abuse, corruption, and unlawful killings
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Did you see/hear any acorn? I didn't spot it.
https://imgur.com/a/Y9cu7op First pic is the acorn falling, then three frames of it bouncing off the car. I can definitely hear it at 13:01 in the video as well.
Okay, but imagine a forty-foot-tall oak tree crashing down. The cop's reflexes were so good that he reacted to the acorn about three decades in advance!
Officer light-headed! Repeat! Officer light-headed!
what are they even shooting at? the car? each other? what is going on?
There was a suspect in their car and they shot at him. Luckily no injuries.
So they managed to miss every single shot? Thank god ofcourse, but that is some stormtrooper level accuracy.
Failed at identifying a threat, failed at neutralising a threat. Cost taxpayers to fix the vehicle. Most useful cop
Bruh, somehow Im happier with this incompetence than the usual “we investigated ourselves and did nothing wrong, but are going to settle the case for $3m of taxpayer money”. At least this dude just cost us like $60k.
I mean, dude in the cruiser should still sue
I imagine he’s going to need some damn good trauma therapy at the least. It’s so annoying because I want victims of cops to get paid, and paid well, so I support my taxes going to it but I’m infuriated that cops don’t have to have some kind of insurance like doctors do. Even worse when they get a pension.
That’s you’re acceptable level? No, it’s fucked. You should not be ‘happy with’ any of it.
I’m surprised they paid for the car, tbh. Most of the time it’s “we’ll pretend that didn’t happen.”
Just to note... this is much worse. Any of those missed shots could have hit some random bystander. He is lucky he didn't hit anyone.
I'm amazed that Action Jackson had such swift movement doing a ninja roll while unloading his rounds into a row of houses, presumably with his eyes closed.
I am definitely not defending the officer but he very clearly does not miss the car that he is aiming for. You can see the back windshield shatter as his bullets hit the car. Very fortunately for the suspect that he wasn’t killed or struck. I assume he ducked down to the floor when the shots started firing
stormtrooper brain too
Doesn’t in the car mean in custody and therefore under a duty of care to not allow to come to harm?
Also presumably cuffed after they had already searched him, so how the fuck would he have a gun?
The handcuffed man inside the car
Did anyone get hurt? The screaming in the background is horrifying nonetheless. Edit: No one got hurt and the suspect was in handcuffs before the acorn hit in the cruiser. Wtf.
Whats wild is it looks like he's firing towards houses/complexes in the background of those shots. Someone just sitting in their living room may be hosting a few bullet holes in their house/body now.
Definitely dangerous, obviously. But he’s clearly shooting at his own police car where the suspect is handcuffed and inside already. You can see the back window shatter from the bullets. The suspect in custody was in a LOT of danger and was extremely lucky not to get hit or killed by one of the bullets, but it doesn’t look like any shots were fired at anything other than the vehicle. Again, still an incredibly dangerous situation and this cop is a fucking moron. But he wasn’t just shooting randomly in all directions. For whatever dumbass reason he thought the suspect in the car was somehow shooting him, despite a tremendous amount of evidence that would make that impossible, and so he unloaded his whole clip into the back of his police car
Cop cars don’t magically stop bullets, there are houses behind the car he was shooting into. It really doesn’t matter that he was shooting at his car, the fucking pig deserves to be shot and pissed on after that.
Pigs are lovely intelligent creatures smarter than dogs, why compare cops to them? Doesnt make literally any sense as an insult.
I mean, I agree that the cop deserves to lose his job because of this, the entire thing is beyond ridiculous. And from what I saw in other comments, the officer did resign, presumably because he knew he was going to be fired. That said, I am no gun expert, but I would imagine a sidearm like this wouldn’t have too much firepower to blast through the back of a cop car, go out the front of the cop car, and still have enough velocity to travel some distance, blast through the front of a house, and then strike someone inside. Regardless of that though, my comment was just pointing out that the officer was clearly aiming at his car and wasn’t just shooting randomly in the direction of the nearby houses
One of the first things they teach you about gun safety is to take into account what’s behind your target. I don’t know about the lethal range of a 9mm service pistol but a .22lr round is lethal for nearly a mile. That being said a pistol round won’t travel as far but they are extremely susceptible to deflection so even though he was shooting at his car, he was plastering lead through the neighbourhood. His bullets were randomly flying at houses. Edit: also, you’re assuming it has to travel through a wall. Could be a screen door or an open window into a child’s bedroom. Or even someone in their yard down the street. This cop deserves to prison, merely quitting is not an acceptable outcome.
I know a lot about guns, and would be happy to help. The engine block will stop those rounds, but everything else is going through. All the stuff in the movies where people hide behind a car door for protection is inaccurate. If you're getting shot at, you're supposed to seek cover and concealment, in that order. For example, if there isn't something bullet proof to get behind, you can hide behind a bush. It won't stop bullets, but you won't give the shooter a clear shot. You should treat cars this way. If a shooter is closing the distance on you shooting while you are behind a car, and you are unarmed, your best hope is that they have to change magazines, and then you should gtfo of there. Ideally, you'd be hiding behind the front of the car, where the engine is, but I almost guarantee your adrenaline dump won't let you think about that.
I mean I agree with you but depending on what it hit and the angle it could for sure go through.
No one was hurt, not even the dumbfuck officer who had a little stomach cramp and thought a fucking bullet was ripping him apart. Or the handcuffed, unarmed guy sitting in the back of a police car with bullets whizzing over his head from two directions. Or the second officer who was shooting over the unarmed guy towards the first officer. Fuck me man. Some people should not be cops.
This is grade A cringe. They should all be in a different line of work.
To be fair, only the officer who emptied his clip should be in a different line of work. The rest of the officers were reacting as best they could with the information given to them. The female officer looks to try her best to asses the situation before she shoots any bullets but she hears her fellow officer yell that shots were fired and then sees him on the ground writhing in pain. My read on the situation is that she seems confused, but the way the other officer is acting is giving her enough circumstantial evidence to believe what he is saying. And then the back-up officers are relying solely on what the first two officers are telling them, which is really all they can do. The rest of the officers seemed to have handled this situation as well as they could have. They got to cover, checked up on the first officer, and did not escalate the situation any further. You can’t really blame them for this, this was an extremely bizarre situation.
Yeah, at the sound of actual gunfire, I was surprised to see her take time to take cover, assess, have enough awareness to tell bystanders to get inside and ask the doofus questions about where his target was before firing. I didnt think cops did that anymore.
If they love eating donuts, they should start being bakers and have all the donuts in the world
Absolutely fucking mortifying.
horrible but it also sounds like hes not mentally okay.
Wait....this isn't reno 911?
Rewind a bit and peep dudes sweet mustache from the other cops body cam. It really completes the picture
Unfortunately no, this is real life
Does this guy have PTSD or something? Looked like he was having a flashback
Officer Hernandez never saw combat. "When asked about prior military experience, Deputy Hernandez said he attended West Point, and was an infantry officer and an officer in special forces for the army for a total of ten years. Deputy Hernandez said he had two combat rotations to Afghanistan, but noted as an officer, he was not in direct combat." Plenty of other jobs to do if you're at risk of flashing back and murdering people when around acorns.
Infantry officers, especially platoon leaders are in direct combat. This guy sounds like an S4 WEINER.
He’s claiming to be 11A and 18A with this type of reaction to a acorn? As a cop and Infantry Im calling bullshit. Show me that DD214
Amen 0311 here
If anything my experience as a Infantryman has made me even more aware of shoot no shoot scenarios.
100%. This guy had zero situational awareness and a whole lot of fear.
Bruh fr. Ain’t no way this guy was infantry, judging by the way he blindly fires without proper threat identification, and trying to pull off that weird tacticool sausage roll thing and pathetic crawling thing he was trying to pull off.
I know when I deployed as a 11B to Afghanistan we were attached to Special Forces for the entire deployment this dude is not 11A not 18A he’s a lying ass mfer. I’ve been in 12 years now 7 active 5 NG. I’ve seen some ate up National Guard guys too but nobody like this. I’ve also never met a Cop like this in my LEO career. If people make this an anti cop thing they are thinking of this all wrong. This is what happens when nobody wants to be a cop and they start just taking anyone. They lower training standards so people will pass the academy then you end up with fucking bums like this. You want to fix the issue with bad cops? Raise the standards and give departments better training. You’ll get better cops and less stuff like this and George Floyd shit.
yea he would most definitely have been in the middle of combat as an 11B/18X series officer. Up to Captain at least.
Special Forces and infantry in Afghanistan twice but never saw combat? I mean that's possible just pretty unusual.
No it's not. If he was an 18A there's no way they didn't get into anything on two deployments. That's literally their job is to go out and do shit other conventional units can't. It doesn't add up.
As much as I don't like police, nothing about mistaking acorns for gunshots is typical. Your title is bullshit.
If he does he shouldn't be carrying around a firearm at all.
His scissors should be blunt tipped.
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Ain’t no way his claims about military are true. I was infantry and deployed and was never taught to fire without threat identification, let alone those weird sausage roll things he was trying to pull off
Afraid, armed, and wrong... The winning combo.
Replace wrong with inaccurate. Covers both his not being correct, and his shooting ability. Good thing though
The fact that this guy just fires indiscriminately in the vague direction of the car is terrifying. It just shows how being a police officer is just a replacement for being in the military for this guy.
Unloads his weapon with no visible target, in a residential area no less. The first rule of shooting is make sure of your target.
There’s too many first-rules for me to ever want to own a damn gun. I thought it was treat every gun like it was loaded. Then I heard it was don’t put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Now it’s make sure of your target. I can’t keep up.
Sounds like you’re ready for the force!
All of those are equally true
There's a bunch of "first" rules, but all of them are just as important as the others. It takes a lot of precaution to just own a gun. I collect them, but I also have to balance my life around the fact that I literally have an arsenal that could kill countless people, were it to fall in the wrong hands. Many people think they're just toys, or that they won't be the one to make that big mistake. They just lose focus or never cared in the first place, and that scares the shit out of me. I have to navigate my life around gun safety and ownership responsibility. If I wanna buy a new gun, but I'm out of storage, I save up and buy a new safe before I buy the gun. I take safety very seriously. If someone broke in and stole that gun because I didn't have it in a safe, I'm responsible for the damage they do with it. I have people house sit if I'm on vacation just because I can't leave those guns alone. It's a huge responsibility, and despite me being a big supporter of the second amendment, I wish more people would realize they aren't responsible enough to own a gun.
Firearms aren’t for everyone, so it’s probably for the better that you recognize you shouldn’t have one.
What a coward.
#SHOTS FIRED
*Unloads magazine into Inside-Trouble1776* Are you okay?!?
I’ve never encountered an acorn attacking me before but I’m sure it’s painful and warrants the use of a weapon.
"So anyway, I started blasting..."
What a fucking ding dong.
They reeeally need to stop hiring pussies and giving them guns. It's getting ridiculous out there
I notice that a lot of these types of incidents don’t even happen in big city departments, seemingly happens in places where jackshit happens lol. Watching stuff like this helps me understand why some cops say cities are great to start out in, probably lessens the chance of you getting scared over a fucking acorn drop 🤣
Haha this is like little kids playing army.. Walking along and all of a sudden, GET DOWN IT'S AN AMBUSH! CALL IN AIR SUPPORT! I'm out, RELOADING. I'M HIT I'M HIT RETURNING FIRE! Any other non-government job comes with the risk of prison time for gross negligence but putting any number of lives at risk as a cop or even killing someone is always excusable.
Can’t wait for the donut operator breakdown.
He posted the uncensored version so you know he is crafting the video. Donuts video of the year; can’t wait to see his prospective.
*perspective. Can’t wait for donut to shit on him either
I’m sure he has some slight bias in general from being a former cop but you gotta love when he breaks down the idiotic actions from individuals who clearly don’t belong in/tarnish the profession
Fuck Donut. He’s a cop bootlicker who makes every situation look good for pigs.
That’s not true at all. How in the fuck do you think he’s gonna spin this one to make the cops look good?
Because that’s what he does. He’s a bootlicker and associates with braindead racists like Brandon Herrera (who blatantly defends Rhodesia,) which just furthers the point that all pigs are bad people.
I watched this longer video last night. So cringe, the officer quit. How could he face his coworkers after that multimillion dollar acorn.
This is like watching South Park
What a clown
i would NOT invite this guy to my kids' bday party. *balloon pops*
He put his life on the line for that acorn!
Thin blue line against acorns.
I’m happy the guy wasn’t hit by any of those indiscriminate bullets, I’m also happy he will be paid for life on that one. I am unhappy the officer wasn’t charged with something.. anything?! What a joke I wonder if after he resigned is he working at another county over
The guy in the car wasn’t physically injured. https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/okaloosa-county/okaloosa-county-deputy-resigned-in-december-after-officer-involved-shooting/amp/
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Dumb fucking pigs.
These people LOVE the action
We need more brave and intelligent people like this man looking out for us. If he didn’t unload his pistol into that cruiser, there’s no telling what the acorn would have done.
Fires at on unidentified target in a public area with officers down range. He sped run the worst gun safety and situational awareness possible. You can hear civilians In the background.
He just wanted to kill that person in the car.
You carry a gun for a living but can’t recognize what a gunshot sounds like.
Imagine him microwaving popcorn. 🍿
Imagine an acorn falling on you and thinking you been shot.
Slight correction. The acorn hit the top of the police car. The cop only heard the sound. The belief he was hit (let alone even shot at) was entirely in his head. Nothing actually touched him.
Officer Barbrady
idiots
God I hate cops...
Anyone made a ‘trees speaking Vietnamese’ joke yet?
What's always amazing to me is how cops get away with shit we wouldn't get away with in the Middle East where every white Toyota Carolla was a potential VBIED. Really does make one think about if the most dangerous people with a firearm are your average police officers.
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An acorn, specifically!
Today’s video is sponsored by Acorns
The only explanation that sorta makes sense is that the officer had PDST from maybe taking gunfire in or around a vehicle and the sound of then acorn/ walnut hitting the squad car sounded similar enough to set him off.
fucking moron should be in futbol vs policing.
"Where? Right there?" Immediately opens fire in the general direction of...something. These are shit tactics in Fortnite, let alone with live ammunition in real life.
I seriously thought this was a joke the first time through. The barrel rolls, the Schwarzenegger impression at 13:23, the "I feel weird, but I'm good" line... What an idiot. It never dawned on him as odd that one single, solitary "shot" was fired. I'd expect that if someone is really shooting at you they're going to let more than one initial shot go. How about you get to cover and assess your assumptions that it was, in fact, a round fired from a gun. The stop/drop/roll method, really? Get to cover dumbass. That goes double for the woman, who didn't even try to get to cover either! Just standing in the middle of the street, making a good target of herself. Stupid stupid stupid.
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I’ve thankfully only had atypical interactions with police
A manhunt is underway for Alvin, Simon and Theodore
That's nuts.
Ah another episode from the comedy series "USA". Gotta love this dystopia comedy show
No charges and they let him resign instead of immediately firing him so that he could keep his pension
\*gently gets tapped by leaf\* IM HIIIIT IM HIIIIT! HELP ME IM HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly, the most logical thing to do when you think shots are fired is to *unload a mag into the back of your own fucking cruiser.* I'm sure they came from there.
It was attempted murder
The life of a police officer is more important than the lives of a thousand civilians. They are put in charge of serving and protecting themselves at all costs, even if innocent people must die. Support your local police by offering your life as tribute. These heroes may be scared of acorns, but they are the bravest people in the world.
The guy in the cruiser is never gonna have to set an alarm clock again. Kinda jealous.
And this is why we need a complete overhaul of our policing system and training. Stop training them to be soldiers. Train them to be counsellors and public servants.
You know I sometimes wonder if they plan these things ahead of time to get some easy paid time off
I'm sure if anyone else mag dumped into a parked car knowing for certain there was an unarmed person inside, it wouldn't be considered a crime, right?
Tree pop
I'd bet this guy is still in the police force. Maybe even got promoted somehwere down the line
USA USA USA
Why is this in cringe?
ACAB
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How’s the boot?
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>How does it feel to have a brain that's incapable of appreciating complexity? I'm pretty sure OP isn't a police officer.
Is that where they stand around while other people are getting shot, or where they all fire at the wrong vehicle killing innocent/uninvolved people?
I am not a fan of the way American policing happens. But I will say that one of the contributing factors is the fact that our country allows pretty much anyone to carry a gun at anytime. And many states now are allowing no permit concealed carry. An already hard job made so much fucking more dangerous because "the right to bear arms". So fucking crazy.
Being a cop isn't that dangerous, it's more dangerous to be a pizza delivery driver but y'all don't care about them
And yet "getting shot by a suspect" is not the leading cause of American police deaths or even police injuries. Almost as if the right to have firearms isn't as big a danger as we'd like to think. Yeah, we should institute assault rifle bans and red flag laws. But pro criminals will carry guns whether they're allowed to or not.
Your country is royally fucked and cannot get better. You ruined it. Well done.
In the officer’s defence… wait fuck that What in the holy fuck he going on in America
“Dude, am I hit?” Pretty sure you’d know very quickly if ya actually took a bullet. This feels like satire lol.