This article comes from Figaro Magazine
Ah, police violence... Behind these uniformed officials there is systematically a criminal, and often a racist to boot.
The French should take a trip to the United States, where you can get checked just for walking in Los Angeles.
There, some police officers are trigger-happy.
They are tense, nervous.
Thus this recent rather astonishing news item: on February 14, in Florida, in Okaloosa County, a police officer thought he heard a gunshot just as he was about to enter his vehicle in which he was, at in the back, a handcuffed suspect.
The car was parked under an oak tree.
Suddenly, an acorn falls on the roof of the car.
The man, with super-fine hearing, believes it is an attack and begins to scream:
“Gunshot!
Gunshot!"
This is the man who was worth three billion.
He has bionic ears.
He throws himself to the ground, rolls over, pulls out his gun and starts shooting at his own car.
A fan of
Lethal Weapon
or
Die Hard,
probably
.
"I am touched!
I’m touched!”,
he screams.
Touched by an acorn.
One of her colleagues, nearby, in turn empties her charger on the car.
The handcuffed man in the back seat was miraculously unharmed.
Neither does the glans.
As for the policeman, he had difficulty getting over it.
The
Journal de Montréal
explains:
“According to the investigation report, he explained that he mistook the sound of the falling glans for the detonation of a silenced pistol.
He resigned from the police.”
Fortunately there was no hail, the neighborhood would have been decimated.