When she got to the hospital she also saw one of the officers who was shot right in front of her being rushed into the emergency room.
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The woman who helped protect her four sons from bullets Thursday during an ambush-style shooting on police at a protest march in Dallas implored Americans to “learn to love” as they leave behind a tumultuous week. In her hospital interview, Taylor said she wanted to show her sons that they could make a difference. She shared her story with reporters at the hospital Sunday afternoon. She told KDFW-Fox 4 News she is a better person for the experience, and she thinks her sons are better for it too. That’s when Taylor got shot herself.
“She’s not so much anxious about the gunshot wound she has on her leg”, Williams told WFAA.
Taylor said that she made a decision to bring her children to the protest after speaking about the police shooting deaths of two black men, Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
Taylor didn’t want to alarm him, and called out quietly to one of the officers, “Yes, sir, I’m hit in my leg!” “All he could do was run up to my sister and myself and hug our necks”.
Taylor’s fours sons were uninjured and she is expected to be ok.
Another of her sons, Wavion Washington, hailed the officer who shielded them as they escaped.
Officer Jorge Barrientos never saw the gunman.
In the press conference, Taylor detailed how another “officer jumped on top of me and covered me and my son; and then there was another one at our feet and there was another one over our head”.
“She caught a stray bullet in the back of her leg shattering her bone from the calf up”, Ms Williams wrote.
“It was hundreds of rounds”, she said, “shots all around us”. That hatred, that racism, was another lesson that Taylor, her sons and perhaps Dallas and America were not ready for. “Any mother would have did what I’d done”.
They chose to leave early to beat traffic since she was scheduled to work early the next day. She said her youngest son wants to be a cop. “I had never seen anything like that before, the way they came around us and guarded us like that”.
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Taylor’s sister, Theresa Williams, told the Associated Press earlier Sunday that Taylor had gone to the protest because she was fed up with the recent shootings of black men by police.
