Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.
That is incredibly fortunate and I am happy they are unhurt. However, that isn’t really a better situation imo. That means that the cop fired multiple shots and never managed to hit their target. That puts them in danger if they ever are in a fire fight, and dangerous for everyone nearby who isn’t who they are trying to shoot.
This usually doesn’t fix things. Bad cops that get fired just get hired as a cop in the next town, city, county, etc. It’s a serious revolving-door problem.
Yes. I actually just made another comment with a similar sentiment.
I have interacted with police as a guest, and some of the things I witnessed and heard from them regarding weapons were worrying. Obviously anecdotal and not a universal statement, as I have also interacted with tactical teams that were both capable and restrained, but some of the small town teams can be very Acorn-mode.
Officer Scaredy Pants is luckily a very, very bad shot, as are his fellow officers.
Did I miss what’s been done about this? Surely he has been fired and disqualified from ever working in LE again. And surely the handcuffed person in the back of the police car has been offered therapy for the PTSD he must suffer from? (sadly, /s)
The officer has been fired. The internal investigation actually did rule against him.
The suspect, Marquis Jackson, has not as far as I know been offered anything but he likely has a very good case against the city with a combination of the publicly embarrassing footage and the official LEO determination of, in the investigation’s words, unreasonable excessive force.
When the internal investigation concluded that he failed the standard for “objectively reasonable force” and therefore further concluded that he applied unreasonable excessive force, and he quit immediately without even attempting to fight the process, I consider that functionally a firing.
He was not hit.
That is incredibly fortunate and I am happy they are unhurt. However, that isn’t really a better situation imo. That means that the cop fired multiple shots and never managed to hit their target. That puts them in danger if they ever are in a fire fight, and dangerous for everyone nearby who isn’t who they are trying to shoot.
That cop if a fucking moron and should never be trusted to be in this situation ever again because they should be summarily fired.
And disqualified from ever owning so much as a paintball gun if their first instinct on hearing a loud noise is spray and pray.
This usually doesn’t fix things. Bad cops that get fired just get hired as a cop in the next town, city, county, etc. It’s a serious revolving-door problem.
As the arrticle mentioned, he resigned.
And got rehired elsewhere.
Yes. I actually just made another comment with a similar sentiment.
I have interacted with police as a guest, and some of the things I witnessed and heard from them regarding weapons were worrying. Obviously anecdotal and not a universal statement, as I have also interacted with tactical teams that were both capable and restrained, but some of the small town teams can be very Acorn-mode.
Officer Scaredy Pants is luckily a very, very bad shot, as are his fellow officers.
Did I miss what’s been done about this? Surely he has been fired and disqualified from ever working in LE again. And surely the handcuffed person in the back of the police car has been offered therapy for the PTSD he must suffer from? (sadly, /s)
The officer has been fired. The internal investigation actually did rule against him.
The suspect, Marquis Jackson, has not as far as I know been offered anything but he likely has a very good case against the city with a combination of the publicly embarrassing footage and the official LEO determination of, in the investigation’s words, unreasonable excessive force.
Both of you missed the article says he resigned while the investigation was going on…?
When the internal investigation concluded that he failed the standard for “objectively reasonable force” and therefore further concluded that he applied unreasonable excessive force, and he quit immediately without even attempting to fight the process, I consider that functionally a firing.
Absolutely does, in cuffs and in their car he’s their responsibility and his safety is up to them.