Former San Bernardino County deputy Meagan McCarthy tells Fox News' Todd Piro how she felt after being told she was 'not a victim' for being assaulted and shot at by a suspect who was recently acquitted.says anti-law enforcement bias is to blame after a jury acquitted a man seen on video beating her to the ground and trying to shoot her with her own weapon.
"If you express an implicit bias towards law enforcement, you are allowed to sit on a jury. And that has never been the case before," McCarthy said."So in my situation, we had many jurors who expressed this bias towards law enforcement, and they were still allowed to decide guilty or not guilty on my suspect.
Young's defense team called the video an"illusion" and argued self-defense, saying McCarthy had no right to pat down the schizophrenic suspect. "I was heartbroken," McCarthy said of the decision."You know, I've spent nearly four years healing from this incident and to be told 'You're not a victim. You don't get to speak. You don't get to have that closure.' That was kind of the knife in the back that I was hoping I wouldn't have."