“Maybe she just got shot in the leg”, she said as his cousin arrived to drive him to the hospital.
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Mother shot at protest speaks publicly?
She had initially taken her sons to the rally so that they could “see unity and how we can come together to make a difference”, Shetamia Taylor, 37, told “Good Morning America” today from her home in Garland, Texas, where she is recovering from a bullet wound in her leg.
“So, we understand that there are a few bad apples out there, but they don’t spoil the whole bunch”.
Pushed into the news conference at Baylor University Medical Center in a wheelchair and hospital gown, Taylor wept as she recounted seeing two officers shot in front of her.
Four of Taylor’s sons were with her during the press conference.
The woman who took her children to the Black Lives Matter march Thursday night in Dallas to protest two recent police shootings of black men ending up praising the “hero” cops who stood between her and an assassin. “And then the police officer, I saw him. And there were several of them lined against a wall”, she recounted. “‘Cause I really feel as though if it’s going to happen to one of my sons, it’s going to have to happen to me first”. I remember seeing him and, uh, that second shot, as he was going down, he says, ‘He has a gun.
Ms Taylor’s is a story of courage and hope in a country marred by division.
Through tears, Taylor said “And then, I saw another officer get shot…” Taylor also said her youngest son wants to be a police officer when he grows up, and she thanked Dallas police for protecting her family during the shooting. Taylor said that the back of the vehicle was riddled with bullets and that by the time they made it to the hospital, the tires were completely deflated. “But I’m thankful. I’m so thankful”. She was “so sorry they lost their lives” and kept saying she was “thankful, so thankful”.
“I look up, I see my mom’s leg bleeding”, he said. But Taylor was neither white nor a police officer. “I saw an officer tell another officer that an officer didn’t make it, and I [was] celebrating my kids”.
Taylor said everyone panicked and ran.
“He said, ‘He has a gun, run, ‘ and my kids started running”, she said.
When asked about the current state of national affairs and the aftermath of the shooting, Taylor responded, “It’s disheartening”. “I just want to protect my family”. I don’t know what’s going to happen but I’m not going to stop.
But he didn’t know how, “and I didn’t want to be by myself”.
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A second civilian was shot during the ambush but police have not released information on their condition.
