Cop Who Saved 200 Lives on the Golden Gate Bridge Opens Up
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🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Bet-David sits down with California Highway Patrol Sergeant Kevin Briggs. In this interview, they talked about how he got the nickname "The Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge" and how he has saved over 200 people from jumping off the bridge.
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| 0:00.0 | I received my first call of an individual over this this four-foot pedestrian rail. |
| 0:04.8 | Your only out you feel is giving up your life. The look in her eyes is they want to live but they |
| 0:11.2 | can't see how and they're in such emotional pain that they just can't take it anymore. What will be |
| 0:16.1 | the first thing you would ask me? We've all seen it where an officer or a citizen rushes up on a |
| 0:20.6 | bridge and grabs someone and pulls them over. Fantastic, great. I want that individual to come back |
| 0:25.5 | over that rail on their own. So if you have the courage to come back over the rail, |
| 0:29.0 | you have the courage to fight and continue on. What got them to jump? Usually when they let go |
| 0:35.7 | for negotiators is not to look. Don't look down and watch that body. Oh my gosh. Many times it's the |
| 0:41.8 | folks who have been suffering for a long time. They've just had enough. They're emotionally exhausted |
| 0:46.9 | and they can't see a way out. We want to get them some help. But it is difficult. You know, |
| 0:51.5 | there's not a lot of money put into mental health. Sometimes they're waiting two months to get |
| 0:55.6 | an appointment with a mental health professional. I mean, that's not right. If you're in crisis, |
| 0:59.1 | we need to get help now. My guest today is Sergeant Kevin Briggs 23 years CHP veteran in the army |
| 1:10.6 | prior to that. And he gave a talk on Ted, which it was so powerful, the bridge between suicide and |
| 1:18.8 | life. And then later on, he wrote a book called The Garden of Golden Gate protecting the line |
| 1:24.2 | between hope and despair. Over 200 lives were saved of people who are about to commit suicide, |
| 1:30.5 | jumping off that bridge, which is known for suicide. And the motivation behind why he wanted to change |
| 1:37.7 | people's life is very deep. And I want to really get into it. It is something that a lot of people |
| 1:42.4 | struggle with today, mental, anxiety, panic, depression. And I really want to hit up that topic. |
| 1:49.2 | And that's not just in regular life. People go through it in business. There's a lot of people that |
| 1:52.7 | are running a business that are running out of money. They're buying themselves. They're |
| 1:55.8 | alone. So I wanted to bring him on. So Sergeant Kevin Briggs, thank you so much for being a guest |
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