A Florida panhandle officer has resigned after a bizarre incident. Jesse Hernandez, of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, got in trouble after his bodycam showed that he 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.
The subject was in his patrol car and cuffed when Hernandez heard the acorn hit the car, threw himself to the ground and yelled “shots fired.”
He then took cover saying “I’m hit.” Then realizing he was fine, he said “I’m good, I feel weird, but I’m good.” Then later “It might have hit my vest.”
There was no gunfire, and yet his partner also fired rounds at the patrol car. Luckily, the suspect in the car was uninjured.