"Florida Deputy Fires at Unarmed Man Mistaking Falling Acorn for Gunshot"

A Florida sheriff's deputy mistook the sound of an acorn hitting his patrol vehicle for a gunshot and fired multiple times at the SUV where a handcuffed Black man was sitting in the backseat, but the man was not injured. The officer who initiated the shooting resigned, and an internal affairs report concluded that his use of force was "not objectively reasonable." The sheriff's office has incorporated the incident into training for other deputies and does not believe the deputy acted with malice.