Her four adult children “can’t sleep because of what’s going on”, and worry about their own children, she said. (He was) kind of tall, hefty, a white guy and bald. “It was very informative, the kids had a good time”. “And then the police officer, I saw him”. She let them know she had been hit and immediately they jumped to cover her and her son. “But I’m thankful. I’m so thankful”.
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She went on to say that she and her sons were running the moment she felt the bullet hit her at the back of the leg. She was fast enough to pick her son Andrew and lay on top of him behind a vehicle.
“I wanted to show them we can be unified, that there could be a peaceful march”, she said.
“That vehicle was riddled with bullets”, she said.
“I’m just a mother and a wife”.
Pushed into the news conference at Baylor University Medical Centre in a wheelchair and hospital gown, Ms Taylor wept as she recounted seeing two officers shot in front of her. She was brought to a local hospital and underwent surgery Friday morning, KDFW reported.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help pay for Taylor’s medical expenses and to assist her family during this hard time. “I’m so thankful. I had never seen anything like that the way they just came around us and guarded us like that”.
“We all have so much more in common than I think that we all want to admit”, she said.
Fort Worth police say they are investigating whether the crash was an accident or deliberate.
Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest…
What happened Thursday night was not an experience Taylor thought she’d ever have to deal with, but she believes she’s a better person now because of it. She also thinks her sons are better for it.
“I was scared and didn’t really know what was going to happen”, Jermar said, his voice shaking. I’m sorry that that person thought that that would be OK, or that he thought it would solve something…
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The bullet had indeed fractured a bone in Taylor’s leg, but a surgeon repaired it with a metal plate and screws and said she would be able to walk in a few months. “I want my people to be unified”. I’m angry and I’m frustrated because of course we want action, but you have to think first before taking that action.
