Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired

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Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car
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It's easy to shit on cops but I hope the guy is okay. It kinda sounded like he resigned after self-realizing how this is not an okay situation. He's probably been in a handful of fucked up situations to be triggered like that tbh.

Either that or he's actually retarded.

Why do you assume there's trauma? He's just reactingly exactly how he has been trained to react.

You don't empty a whole clip like a schizo after hearing one shot lol. I think the protocol would have been to call back up or "I heard shots fired on main Street"

You're right, it's a bat shit insane response, but cops in the U.S. are trained to be afraid and react without thinking on a hair trigger. His reaction is unfortunately way too normalized.

I do hope he gets the treatment he needs. It is not normal behavior.

I also don't want him with a gun near a school, mall, or any other place with lots of bystanders. Not until he has a good record of not overreacting.