Body cam footage shows the moment officer mistook sound of acorn for gunfire, before unloading multiple rounds at oblivious suspect detained in back of patrol vehicle.
Footage out of Okaloosa County, Florida, captured the moment an overzealous cop opened fire on an unsuspecting man sitting in the back of his police vehicle under arrest after the officer mistook the sound of a fallen acorn for gunfire, and erroneously claimed he was shot.
Police body cam footage made public this week shows the November 2023 incident in which former Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy Jesse Hernandez calmly approached his vehicle where a detained suspect sat in custody.
All of a sudden, Hernandez hears a sound and immediately begins yelling, “Shots fired!” several times as he drops on the ground and rolls around on the grass before drawing his sidearm, at which point he shoots towards his patrol vehicle.
Firing several shots from a kneeling position, Hernandez is joined by his partner Sergeant Beth Roberts who also fires at the vehicle.
Hernandez then drops onto the pavement and finishes emptying his magazine at the vehicle, while grunting and yelling, “I’m hit! I’m hit!”
Taking cover from the phantom threat behind a vehicle, Hernandez tells Sgt. Roberts, “I’m good, I feel weird, but I’m good,” adding, “It might have hit my vest,” after possibly realizing he was not shot.
After a few moments, other police arrive to back up Hernandez against the perceived threat, as he asks responding officers if he’s actually hit.
Unfortunately for Hernandez, the sound he’d heard that sparked the commotion was later discovered to be an acorn that fell from a tree and hit his vehicle, according to an internal report. He also sustained no gunshot wounds.
At the same time, 22-year-old Marquis Jackson, the unarmed handcuffed black man who was in the back of the patrol vehicle under arrest on suspicion of stealing a vehicle, said he was “scared to death” as police opened fire on the vehicle in which he sat.
In a Facebook post last Thursday, Jackson recounted:
A few moments later I hear an officer scream “I’m hit , he’s armed”! As soon as that was announced multiple shots were fired at me while I was stuck in the backseat. All I could do was lean over and play dead to prevent getting shot in the head. I was scared to death and I knew all I could depend on was God! I ignored everything and prayed! Windows were shattering on me the whole time as bullets continued flying across me. 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. I truly believe I’m damaged for life!
In his post, Jackson criticized the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s department of attempting to cover up the incident by refusing to release the body cam footage of the incident.
Jackson also claims once he was taken to the courthouse for booking, he sat in a cell “for hours” before he was eventually released and told he wouldn’t be facing any charges.
Hernandez resigned last month after an internal investigation into his use of force determined it “was not objectively reasonable.”
Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden released a video message last Friday urging people to read the 44-page internal investigations report into the incident, adding he was thankful Jackson wasn’t harmed and saying he was sorry over the incident.
Meanwhile, it remains to be seen whether Jackson’s family will file a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department over the distressing misuse of force.
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