Posted on 12/12/2009 4:07:49 PM PST by kingattax
ALTON - Angela Gutierrez says she had to do something when she saw a police officer being attacked.
"Nobody wants to be in that situation," she says.
Gutierrez, who is nine months pregnant, was driving down the road with her husband and child, when she saw a group of teens attack a police officer.
The Alton officer was called to the scene to break up a fight. Before arriving he already knew he would need help and called for backup. The teens the officer spotted refused to cooperate. Instead, they attacked.
Dashcam video recorded sounds of the teens beating the officers repeatedly.
Help finally arrived for the officer. It wasn't another officer. It was Gutierrez, whose baby is due in two weeks.
She says, "Something felt like I had to help. I told the guys to leave him alone."
Gutierrez is shown in the dashcam video trying to stop one of the teens. The group continued wrestling. At one point, the teens tried to grab the officer's gun. The pregnant Gutierrez continued to help the officer.
She says it was a gut reaction. The teens soon took off running.
Police tracked down the suspects a few days later. The three teens were arrested. They were charged with aggravated assault on a public servant and evading arrest. A judge set each of their bonds at $3,100,000 bond.
The officer who was attacked is recovering at home.
The husband let his wife do that?
Too bad she didn’t have a firearm. Some acute lead poisoning was needed, and she was ill equipped.
Glad it mostly worked out.
She’s lucky one of the punks didn’t harm her and her baby.
I probably couldn’t have gotten out of the van without a crane at that point in pregnancy.
Yeah, about nine pounds.
Never mess with a pregnant woman THREAD BUMP.
Then again, all she needed was the assistance of Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
Brave gal! She needs to get a medal and a monetary award from the city.
what was her husband doing?
Or her husband who I guess sat in the car.
Actually she was just pissed they were between her and her ice cream.
It’s not impossible that she was just plain pissed over *something*.
Some research show that pregnant women have more nurturing and protecting feelings than usual, so watching a person being attacked by kids I think invoked that feelings that led her to act. Apparently, the kids also respected a pregnant woman more than a police officer.
I’m not sure I’d call Angela Gutierrez a “wise Latina”, but she is a darn, “brave Latina”. God bless her and her unborn child.
Had it been my wife, she’d have dropped the punks. .38spl surgery.
Glad she’s a “Gunnie Girl”... Got “Gunnie Kids” too.
Out of the van without a crane...
Yup, with my first when I delivered i did not look pregnant. With my second I could have used wheels under the belly just to ease getting around. Doubt I could have helped any one period.
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