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240: Part 2: EXCLUSIVE! The media went after her - Here's what they got wrong

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Former LAPD Officer Toni McBride survived a life-altering officer-involved shooting on April 22, 2020. She was cleared. She did everything right. But being right didn't protect her from what came next — the media firestorms, the public hatred, the departmental politics, the lawsuits, and the battle against an autoimmune disease that attacked her body just as the world was attacking her name.

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0:34.4

with Indeed. I was in so much pain i refused all treatment anything possible

0:39.7

because my condition was really severe and i was losing so much weight and i was in so much pain

0:45.7

that i was literally pregnant and i would just collapse on the ground and my husband would say baby

0:50.9

let me move you to the couch like and i was no just leave me here just put a blanket. Just put a blanket over me. I can't move anymore. I can't. And my husband's, one, you have to fight. You have to keep going. And I looked at him and I said, I'm done. I can't do this anymore. I can't keep doing this. And I will never forget his face because he was so let down. And he was, no, it's okay. And for him, he said,

1:11.7

it's okay, baby. Like, I have enough faith and I have enough strength for the both of us.

1:16.0

I'll carry you. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA special agent retired and now host of the Game of Crimes

1:21.7

podcast. If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story. I now bring you stories of heroism and bravery from our law enforcement and military heroes

1:32.7

and occasionally from the criminals that they faced.

1:36.7

Welcome to Game of Crimes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to part two of this week's episode.

1:53.6

I am, I'm sitting here sweating.

1:55.9

If you saw yesterday's interview, you know why.

1:59.8

If you didn't see yesterday's interview, go listen to it before

2:02.3

you listen today because it's not going to make sense because we're going to take up right where we

2:05.8

stopped yesterday. Tony's just been, this is our guest this week is Tony McBride, former LAPD police

2:11.7

officer. Second, two and a half years on the job gets involved in an officer involved shooting legitimate

2:18.6

shoot thanked by other people on the scene for saving their lives and then the public gets

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