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to be fair, acorn cop resigned before the investigation concluded. in the released investigation documents, it's pretty clear the institution recognized pretty quick what a threat he was to literally everyone and probably told him to get gone, because they weren't going to cover for him. it will probably be weeks before some other suburban Florida shithole scoops him up.
having read the entire investigation transcript (it is hilarious), the absolute wildest and overlooked detail is that the acorn cop (Jesse Hernandez, former Deputy sheriff of Okaloosa County Sheriff's Department) was known to the department via his resume as a former officer in the army special forces with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, though he admitted in the investigation having never been in actual combat, but had "commanded men who had been in combat". however the fuck that works. anyway, he was new in the department, but was regarded up until then by his supervisor on the scene as being a reliable, level-headed person with a calm, professional emotional temperament.
the deeper story behind this crazy shit is this Tier 1 Bozo pulling all this special forces clout to become barney fife and winding up being the most incompetent and mentally fragile clown in possibly all of florida law enforcement, and therefore arguably the planet and human history.
like this guy should be lowjacked and monitored for the rest of his life, and for certain should never carry a gun again, but dollars to donuts he will use that same "i'm former special forces" b.s. to get into some other high trust position.
It's stuff like this that makes me think the US army would just fall apart the instant they had to fight a peer competitor that could actually fight back.
At the minimum the officer corps would get shaken the fuck up real quick. Look at Syria. Initial losses and setbacks to ISIS. Desk pilots got tossed. Competence got rewarded. The SAA is pretty fucking battle hardened now.
I wonders to meself... "Self? If this asshole didn't immediately resign, would they have made him take a blood/piss test for illegal substances? If so, what would the lab find?"
Quite the prestigious accomplishment considering the competition.
This sounds like corporate speech from someone who didn't knew him but had to write an answer to a journalist.
you're not wrong about the language, but the audience was the investigation panel and the official record. the other cop involved also shot a few rounds into vehicle, and the way they played it, she had her legal representation with her during questioning/deposition and her reason for shooting was she "believed" the deputy's claims of being shot at/taking fire and being hit and "believed" she was about to see a cop die, so it's certainly self-serving for her to claim her interactions with him up until this point made him reliable and not, a deranged lunatic prone to losing his shit.
again, the official investigation document is a hysterical read. it's the story of the entire apparatus putting all possible weight on the acorn cop so they can exonerate the other cop present for drawing her weapon and also shooting at an occupied cop car with no target. so they make absolutely sure to go over acorn cop's moves with extremely funny detail.