A former California Sheriff’s deputy is speaking out after her attacker was acquitted despite a shocking video showing him brutally beating her, taking her gun and firing at her.
The suspect, Ari Young, was acquitted of attempted murder and assault by a jury in connection with the 2019 incident. The beating, caught on camera, shows the pair wrestling as they fell to the ground, shortly before he grabbed her firearm and shot at her while she attempted to flee the scene.Â
Former San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy Meagan McCarthy joined “Fox News @ Night” to discuss the harrowing incident, recounting the frightening moment she said her own gun was pointed in her face.Â
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“The only thing that I thought was that was it,” McCarthy told I had so much pain to my face from the broken bones and the punches, that that was the only thing I thought that I just got murdered.”
“And by the grace of God, a malfunction saved my life. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be here today,” she continued. “So I turn, and I run away, and I hear another gunshot go off, and I know he’s firing at me as I’m running away.”
A California jury found Young not guilty of attempted murder and assaulting a peace officer, instead finding him guilty of the lesser charge of negligent discharge of a firearm, and failed to reach a verdict on several other allegations, including resisting arrest.
Raj Malin, the defense lawyer, told Los Angeles’ ABC 7 that McCarthy did not have reasonable suspicion to justify patting down his schizophrenic client when she arrived on scene.
“The issue was, was the initial detention of Mr. Young legal?” he told the station. “If it’s not, then he’s not guilty. … He could punch her 100 times, and it wouldn’t matter.”
McCarthy rushed to the home and saw a man with “clenched fists” who came outside and then made a “bee-line” in her direction as she got out of her patrol vehicle. Behind him was his…
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