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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Why did he say "I'm hit"

Cops are trained to say that before shooting as a psychological trick to manipulate witnesses. Your brain doesn't perfectly record the order of events in a situation like that, so to make sense of things you're likely to misremember one or more of the gunshots being before the "I'm hit" rather than correctly remember that the cop shot first.

Because he's a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.

He probably got it from South Park with the "its coming this way" defense for hunting out of season

Reading the article is hard.

... felt a “tingliness” all along the side of his body. He then said his “legs just give out” and he fell to the ground, assuming that he had been seriously injured by something.

My bad, just watched the vid on another thread and was asking here

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