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    Jesse Hernandez, a police officer in Florida, opened fire on his own patrol car after mistaking an acorn falling on the hood for a gunshot. Hernandez had a handcuffed man, Marquis Jackson, sitting in the back of the car. Hernandez's partner also began shooting at the vehicle. Jackson was not injured. An investigation later revealed that Hernandez misidentified the sound of an acorn hitting the car as gunfire. Hernandez resigned from the department after the incident.

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    Jesse Hernandez, a police officer in Florida, opened fire on his own patrol car after mistaking an acorn falling on the hood for a gunshot. Hernandez had a handcuffed man, Marquis Jackson, sitting in the back of the car. Hernandez's partner also began shooting at the vehicle. Jackson was not injured. An investigation later revealed that Hernandez misidentified the sound of an acorn hitting the car as gunfire. Hernandez resigned from the department after the incident.

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    National News | VIDEO: Cop mistakes acorn for gunshot, unloads…

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    VIDEO: Cop mistakes acorn for gunshot, unloads on car with cuffed man inside

    Body camera footage shows a Florida police panic and open fire on a patrol car, with a handcuffed person inside, after officials said he thought an acorn that fell on
    the vehicle was gunfire.

    By Joseph Wilkinson | jwilkinson@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News


    PUBLISHED: February 14, 2024 at 12:43 p.m. | UPDATED: February 14, 2024 at 3:12 p.m.

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    A Florida police officer confused a falling acorn for a gunshot and responded by unleashing a hail of
    bullets on his own patrol car while a man sat handcuffed inside.

    Jesse Hernandez of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office shot up his vehicle after the acorn struck the
    hood during the Nov. 12, 2023 incident. His partner, Beth Roberts, also opened fire on the vehicle
    after Hernandez yelled “Shots fired!” and said he had been struck by gunfire.

    The handcuffed suspect inside the car, Marquis Jackson, was not struck by any of the bullets.

    “Windows were shattering on me the whole time as bullets continued flying across me,” Jackson
    wrote Feb. 7 on Facebook “I was blessed not to get hit by any bullets or get hurt physically but
    .

    mentally, I’m not ok. I haven’t been the same since and I don’t think this feeling I have will ever change.”

    Hernandez, Roberts and two other officers responded to two calls in Fort Walton Beach in the Florida
    Panhandle. A woman had reported that her boyfriend, Jackson, refused to return her vehicle and sent
    her threatening messages, including an image of a firearm silencer.

    While Roberts spoke with the woman, Hernandez returned to his vehicle to grab some papers. As he
    was walking past the vehicle, the acorn fell and struck the hood Hernandez convinced himself that
    .

    he’d been hit by a bullet, then dove and rolled dramatically on the ground.

    Jesse Hernandez’s body-camera shows him on the ground shooting at his patrol vehicle.

    “Ifeel the impact. My legs just give out,” Hernandez told internal investigators. “I returned fire until I

    could get cover behind another vehicle that was parked in a driveway there.”

    Later in the interview, Hernandez was shown video of the acorn falling on his car .

    “Deputy Hernandez asked, ‘Acorn?'” the report reads. “Investigator Hogan answered, ‘Acorn.'”

    Hernandez resigned on Dec. 4. Roberts remains a member of the department.

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