As they were leaving, she had to throw herself over them to shield them from sniper fire, which caught her in the right calf, her sister Theresa Williams told The Associated Press.
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– A North Texas mother who was shot while attending the protest in downtown Dallas Thursday in downtown is now thanking the officers who literally risked their lives to save hers.
Shetamia Taylor broke down in tears while sitting alongside her doctors and family Sunday at Baylor University Medical Center.
She started her address to the media and others gathered, “First and foremost, I want to say my prayers to the family members of the officers who passed”.
Her comments began about the 16-minute mark in this YouTube video.
“As he was going down, he said, “He has a gun”.
She said she tackled her 15-year-old son, Andrew, and “laid on top of him”. All she could think about was her three boys – where are they at.
Shetamia Taylor and her son were taken to a hospital after the officers put them in the back of a police auto. She was obviously emotionally affected while she recapped what happened that night. I saw him kind of tall, hefty, white guy, bald. “Run!” Then she felt a bullet hit her in the back of the leg. Another police officer appeared, asking if anyone had been shot.
“I kept praying for everybody”, she recalled, “for my sons to be safe, for the officers to be safe”. Another cop [was] at my feet and another [stood] by us and they protected us.
The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the police chief said. Taylor had to take a few moments to compose herself but continued.
Taylor, 37, said when she first heard the gunfire, she thought it might be fireworks left over from Fourth of July celebrations.
Wiser took him under her wing, thinking of her own sons, and they walked with them toward her truck, hoping to charge a phone enough to get in touch with his family. It was hundreds of rounds. “And it only happened to me, so I’m thankful for that”.
“Being a mother of five young black men, I sat down with my kids when I came home from work on Thursday and we talked about everything and I talked to them about how they needed to comply if, for whatever reason, they were ever stopped by the police…” “I look up, I see my mom’s leg bleeding, and I freak out”.
Dr. Laura Bruce Petry was tending to another patient in the emergency room when her beeper started to go off. “And immediately I heard sirens”, she said.
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Andrew was crying for police to move them, but they said it wasn’t safe.
