Posted on 06/04/2022 4:26:34 PM PDT by conservative98
Angeli Gomez told CBS News that she received a call from law enforcement suggesting that she could face consequences for speaking to media outlets about her experience.
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A Uvalde mom who says she was handcuffed by law enforcement while trying to rescue her sons from the school shooting has claimed that authorities warned her not to speak to the media about her experience.
Angeli Gomez, a farmworker in Uvalde, spoke to CBS News on Thursday, describing how she was able to rush into Robb Elementary School and save her kids during the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers, despite law enforcement’s attempts to stop her.
Gomez, who previously spoken to the Wall Street Journal about her experience, said she had just gone back to work after her children's graduation ceremony when she first received news about the shooting. She quickly drove 40 miles back to the school, but said that she was prevented from going inside.
“Right away, as soon as I parked my car, US Marshals started coming towards my car saying I wasn’t allowed to be parked there,” Gomez told CBS News. “He said, ‘We’re going to have to arrest you because you’re being very uncooperative,’ and I said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to arrest me because I’m going in there, and I’m telling you right now — I don’t see none of y’all in there.’”
Gomez alleged that the US Marshals handcuffed her to stop her from rushing toward the school.
"I told one of the officers, 'I don't need you to protect me. Get away from me. I don't need your protection. If anything, I need you to go in with me to go protect my kids,'" she told CBS News.
The US Marshals have previously denied handcuffing parents, telling WSJ that their deputy marshals “maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the school.”
CBS News also reported that Gomez, who is reportedly on probation for previous charges against her, claimed that she had received a call from “someone in law enforcement” telling her that if she kept talking to the media and sharing her story she might face some kind of violation for obstruction of justice.
According to CBS News, Gomez said she was able to speak out after a judge called her “brave” and told her that her probation would be shortened.
Uvalde police did not respond to requests for comment and BuzzFeed News could not independently verify Gomez’s account about the call and her probation.
Gomez said that she was able to convince local police to uncuff her, and as soon as she was free, she jumped over a fence and rushed into the building to grab her two sons, who are in the second and third grade, from inside. According to her account, police chased her while she ran toward the building.
Gomez claimed that she did not see officers inside the building while she was in there, but that she could hear gunshots coming from somewhere in the school. When she knocked on the door of her first son’s classroom, she recalled finding teachers and students hiding inside.
Angeli Gomez speaks to CBS News. CBS News/YouTube / Via youtube.com Angeli Gomez with her two sons.
Gomez said the teacher asked her if they had time to get out and she replied, “Yeah, you have time, I’m going to run and get my other son.’”
She said that authorities tried to escort her out of the building when she approached her other son’s classroom door, but that when she saw them opening the door, she ran back to get her child.
Gomez was captured on camera holding her sons’ hands while running out of the school.
KHOU 11 / Via khou.com Angeli Gomez is seen on camera running out of the school with her two sons.
“Nothing was being done,” she told CBS News. “If anything, [law enforcement] were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there.”
Several videos widely shared on social media showed authorities confronting desperate parents who were angrily asking why armed police officers were not rushing in to save their children during the shooting.
In one video, an officer who was seen pushing parents back was asked by a parent why police weren’t trying to save their kids.
“Because I'm having to deal with you!" the officer replied.
The mishandling of the shooting by law enforcement has sparked national outcry after it was revealed that police did not enter the classroom to confront the shooter for more than an hour after the shooting began, and have reportedly ignored requests for follow-up interviews by Texas state investigators. The Justice Department has opened an investigation to review the police response to the attack after authorities admitted that mistakes were made.
Even as Gomez recounted being able to rescue her own children, she broke down in tears, thinking about how many other kids’ lives might have been saved if not for police inaction.
"They could have saved many more lives," Gomez said. "They could have gone into the classroom and maybe two or three would have been gone but they could have saved the whole, more, the whole class. They could have done something, gone through the window, sniped him through the window. Something, but nothing was being done."
Ajnin, come and defend your cowardly “heroes” of Uvalde.
You are so right! This woman might have ended up standing outside the room for 78 minutes and let the madman kill 17 children and 2 teachers! Oh, wait...
“There are a lot of good cops out there who have to be furious about how this happened.”
You certainly wouldn’t know it from the boot-lickers here.
Because Team Biden's henchpersons groomed the murderous freak in advance, softened the target in advance, then made SURE law enforcement would STAND DOWN and AVOID THE KILL BOX TO ENSURE A HIGHER BODY COUNT.
Team Biden needed the body count.. Orders from on-high to MAKE SURE NO PARENTS INTERFERED WITH THAT.
So STINKING obvious, isn't it?
Poltroons.
/pälˈtro͞on/
noun
an utter coward
Yep.
Why is Ajnin defending the cowards? Look at his picture on his About Page. That LEO ninja turtle would protect a cop that shot a baby in the face for fun.
Anybody on a government payroll who “commands” ordinary citizens to NOT speak to the press about what some government person said or did is the problem. Both government types should have their employment terminated immediately. (Less paperwork than nuking them from orbit just to be sure.)
It's been 11 days.
You think someone would have come up with a coherent timeline.
I've heard the term "confusopoly" to describe when interested parties are trying to fog the issue at hand.
We are “citizens,” NOT “civilians.”
Exactly.
Deep state plan was to have many deaths, not just two or three.
His name is a play on the word “ninja”.
Is he really an 18 year old who just got two new guns for his birthday?
Waiating for even one of them to speak up... waiting... waiting... Nope just crickets.
“ A million things could go wrong...*very* wrong...if a civilian,particularly one without a gun,were to be in there. ”
Stop making sense.
Don’t you know we are supposed to be outraged?
This!
Bunch of punk ass cops.
When you have a dozen cops and 9 of the are bad but the other 3 do not do or say anything about it, how many bad cops do you have?
12 – you have 12 bad cops.
“If anything, [law enforcement] were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there.”
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Patterned after Jan 6. ‘prosecution’.
Wait till they track everyone’s cel phones.
Especially those who drove toward that school at all.
A million things could go wrong...*very* wrong...if a civilian,particularly one without a gun,were to be in there.
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The most ‘wrong’ I can figure is that the mom gets shot.
That would be one thing wrong. Death count rises from 19 to 20.
Small percent increase.
If she had a gun, then does she shoot a bunch, upping the count toward the million wrong things?
I do not understand your logic.
The police ‘chief’ who told him men to stand down is a Beto supporter. A coward and and thug... he should have been fired that day...
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