This story is not a scene from ‘Police Academy’, although it may seem like it. A tremendous shooting is assembled in a Residential area off the coast of sunny Florida, when an agent, Jesse Hernandez, believing that he has been shot and with clouded judgment, opensfire against his own car police, where a detainee was detained for alleged robbery and weapons. However, the reality is that no one had shot him.

Hernández’s patrol had responded to a call about a car that was driving honking and disturbing public order in the middle of the morning. Another caller, from a woman, told investigators that her boyfriend, Marquis Jackson, had stolen that car and was threatening through text messages and phone calls. Additionally, she said that Jackson had a silencer and more than one weapon.

After opening fire, the officer He collapses, screaming, as if wounded, and continues shooting, now without a clear objective. As he crawls for cover, shouting “I’m here, I’m here!” his police partner also shoots… just in case. Because in the ‘bodycam’ video released now you can hear her doubting: from the other end of the street she asks him.

Hernández, still shouting and gun in hand, while nerves take over the neighborhood, places the threat “in the car, in the car!” and he points out that the shot he says he heard would have hit his bulletproof vest. “I’m fine, I feel strange but good!”, he assures.

It was good because there was no such shot: it was an acorn which fell on the hood of the car. And the detainee was not carrying weapons either. In the investigation, the agents clung to the fact that they heard a sound that could have been a muffled gunshot. It also suited some witnesses, but the investigations have determined that such use of force “was not objectively reasonable”.

An error in judgment, which luckily did not end in tragedy, but it did end in tragedy with the agent resigned. Hernández resigned on December 4, when the investigation was closed, but the video and the case have now emerged.