An acorn falls on his car, an American police officer opens fire. The officer, a former soldier, was convicted of excessive use of deadly force.
He resigned from the police. The facts, difficult to believe but illustrating the psychosis linked to weapons in a country where they abound, took place in November 2023 in Okaloosa County, according to a video recently made public by the local sheriff. The sound of the falling acorn can be heard in the body-worn camera recording of Officer Hernandez who, precisely 1.1 seconds after the harmless impact, begins shouting “Gunshots!”