Episode 880: Realities of an OIS with Meagan McCarthy
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with former San Bernardino County Deputy and OIS survivor, Meagan McCarthy.
Meagan's incident took place on Sept. 4th, 2019 in San Bernardino County. McCarthy was responding to a 911 call for a domestic disturbance. 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 mother, with a knife in her hand and still on the phone with dispatch.
The events that unfolded after she arrived changed her life forever.
Today, Dennis and Meagan discuss her OIS in depth, her reaction to the not-guilty verdict of her attacker, the learning points and take aways from the incident, lack of training, putting in the time to prepare yourself for these situations, seeking help, the toxicity of social media and importance doing the training whether you want to our not because it could save your life.
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| 0:00.0 | I had put out I'm 4.15 and the only part that dispatch caught was teen and actually one of my partners heard me and said oh that sounded like 415 like why else would she be saying teen and then there was nothing else and then we were in the middle of like I said fighting and he has a hold in my left hand so I'm basically trying to do everything with one hand and then I try and put it out. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm 415 and that's when dispatch, |
| 0:27.1 | I think, started sending units my way. |
| 0:29.6 | And then when it had gone for like a minute or two |
| 0:32.0 | and I wasn't responding she sent you know everybody |
| 0:36.4 | which without a doubt saved my life. |
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| 1:24.0 | Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop |
| 1:26.5 | training podcast, me he was founder and CEO of street cop training. |
| 1:28.8 | My name is Dennis Brino and today we have with us Megan McCarthy. |
| 1:31.6 | Some of you may know her from some of the shits going on in her life, it's fucked up. |
| 1:37.0 | And typical California, typical fucking bullshit state California, and being a police officer there and the county |
| 1:46.0 | that you're in and what you went through and what the outcome was it's ludicrous |
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