Disturbed Man Pulls Grenade on Cops! Michael Wordon

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with retired Port Jervis, New York Police Sergeant Michael Worden as he tells us about the day he had to pull the trigger on a deranged man who threatened him, his partners and a hospital parking lot full of people with a live grenade. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and talk about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recent comments about possible future permitless carry legislation. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	So at that moment, he pulled out of his pocket a baseball-style hand grenade.
0:04.9	I could see it playing his day.
0:06.7	It was like my eyeball zoomed in on it.
0:08.9	I could see his left hands shaking as he was trying to pull the pin out.
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0:48.7	All right, gang, welcome back to the Active Self Protection podcast. I am your host, Mike Williver,
0:52.9	your favorite. Former Fed
0:55.5	with us today, Michael Warden, he is a husband and father of five. He is a retired police sergeant
1:02.1	from the Port Jervis, New York Police Department. He's here to talk to us about his critical incident,
1:07.7	which happened a while back. Michael, how are you, sir? Good. How are you doing? Thank you for having me on the program. So, Mike, you are retired, Ellie. How long have you been retired from law enforcement? So I retired at the beginning of June of this of 2021, actually. So what, about seven months now? Okay, pretty, pretty recent. Yeah, same as me. Okay, very, very cool. So what part of the countries you grew up?
1:27.7	Are you from New York originally?
1:29.2	Yeah, I was pretty much, I was born in Michigan, but I was from here, my family. I was raised here in the, basically right outside of New York City, about 60 miles, 70 miles. What made you want to go into law enforcement? I always ask cops that question. And I don't tell me because you wanted to help people because I know better.
1:45.7	Yeah.
1:46.4	So I actually became a cop a little bit later. I was 29 when I got
1:50.9	hired. I actually turned 30 in the academy. I had studied sports medicine in college and I worked in
1:56.7	exercise science for quite a few years. And enjoyed doing that but my brother is a police officer
2:03.1	and you know it just seemed like something naturally that I was being drawn to and with age
2:08.5	limits you had I had to make a choice would I be happy not pursuing it or would I be
2:14.4	happier pursuing it and see if it was something I wanted to do and I decided that I was going to go for it and I never looked back.
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