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you ALREADY know that answer!  TBL folks will be here to defend this shortly. whole lotta WTF in that video.

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Really?  You can't hear 100+ decibels near you?  

How did she hear him yelling then?

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Cop was likely an awesome guy caught in a series of unfortunate events while under an immense amount of tension.  With the hostility LEOs have had to deal with these last few years who can blame him for being so stressed out while patrolling the streets?  Could have happened to anyone.

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I'm a fat, useless retired cop now.  But I used to investigate officer-involved shootings.  We had to explore every avenue in our investigations, even what some may consider to be moot issues that the officers' defense counsel may bring up.  Try these issues on for size:

-My client received absolutely no training at the academy regarding the functioning and/or the actual report that results from suppressed firearms.  Here's a copy of the classroom and range training lesson plans.  You'll notice that no such information was included.

-My client received no training from his FTO in the area of suppressed firearms.  Here's a copy of his satisfactory completed FTO book.

-My client had no prior incidents wherein he was shot at or any rounds were fired by him or any partner officers.

-My client was informed that the suspect had possession of a suppressed firearm at some point in time prior to the incident in question.

-My client recognized that the suspect had not been thoroughly searched prior to being placed in the marked police unit, which had tinted windows, thus making it difficult or impossible to see what the suspect may have been doing while inside.

-My client had previously experienced suspects who were able to bring their properly cuffed hands to the front of their bodies by "walking through" the cuffs, thus making them far more dangerous to officer safety than had their hands remained behind their backs.  A secreted firearm could then be aimed and fired as though the suspect had not been handcuffed.

-As documented in the IA report, a sound emanated from the marked police unit just as my client approached it.  He interpreted the sound made by an acorn onto the vehicle as a bullet exiting from inside the vehicle, aimed at him.

-As my client fell to the ground to avoid being shot, he immediately felt pain throughout his body and believed that he had been shot.  That belief, as well as his conclusion that the sound made by the acorn was suppressed gunfire, led him to alert the sergeant with him on the call that shots had been fired.  He reacted by firing his duty pistol into the vehicle where he believed that shot had emanated from.  The sergeant, seeing that my client was down, responded in kind by firing her duty pistol at the marked unit in an attempt to stop the threat.

If you think these assertions are outlandish, you ain't seen nothing compared to real LEO IA defense cases.

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Cop was likely an awesome guy caught in a series of unfortunate events while under an immense amount of tension.  With the hostility LEOs have had to deal with these last few years who can blame him for being so stressed out while patrolling the streets?  Could have happened to anyone.

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Who shot 1st or was it a " I heard " shots.

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Because in his training he’s never been shot so he assumed that he was hit.  Just like neither of them were never trained on what suppressed weapons sounded like so they assumed that a falling acorn was a suppressed shot.

All stuff that reasonable officers do.

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As stupid as these cops were in this incident, the vast majority of citizens are still even more stupid.  And certainly not capable of policing themselves.

Pretty scary.

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I wonder what kind of treatment any of us normal plebs would receive if we suddenly mag dumped a car because an acorn fell on the hood or some other equally absurd reasoning?

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I want to see the body cam footage from after as his partner starts to figure out what happened.