BREAKING: Female California sheriff’s deputy slams ‘anti-cop’ jury for freeing man who tried to shoot her – EVOL

A California sheriff’s deputy has criticized a jury for acquitting a man charged with her attempted murder, calling the decision a “stab in the back” and a dangerous precedent for law enforcement and victims of violence.

In a shocking 2019 incident captured on video, former San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy Meagan McCarthy was brutally attacked by Ari Young, who overpowered her, seized her gun, and fired shots at her.

Despite the disturbing footage, a jury found Young not guilty of attempted murder and assault with a firearm on a police officer on May 31. Instead, he was convicted of a lesser charge—firing a gun with gross negligence—and was released from jail.

McCarthy, who spent nearly four years recovering from the attack, told Fox & Friends First that she was “heartbroken” by the verdict. “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,” she said.

She blamed a recent reform in California’s jury selection process, which she argues allows jurors with an

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