Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
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.