The mother, who bravely enrolled inRob Elementary School, Texasto save her children, says she is currently being harassed by local police officers.
Angeli Rose Gomez tells San Antonio News 4 that 19 children and 2 adults died in a shooting at her school last month, soshe has her own hands. Said that he solved theproblem.
Gomez heard she had an active shooter on the premises and she said she hurried to school. When she came face-to-face with an officer standing outside the school door, sheshe could hear gunshots and children's screams. Her police officer told her she couldn't get into her school and temporarily hand-locked her when she tried to get into her school.
She said they released her from her crotch after she persuaded them to calm down.
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That's when she saw the opportunity. She told the press that she jumped over the fencenearand began beating the door window, and she moved towards her eldest son's teacher, who was visible in the school.
Gomez said to her, "You already have a doorway, so you should go out. As if I were going to run out with him, you. All come along. "
Once inside the building, she was able to gather her eldest son and some of her classmates and drive them out of school. After that, she returned to the door of her youngest classroom.
"At this point, I'm shaking the handle and opening the door won't open it. , I stand behind, the policeman is already on top of me, like "wife, calm down". "She told KATU News.
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She will not leave the hallway until she begins to evacuate theclassroom to the policeSaid said.
"Soon Then they started evacuating from the classroom,son rushed to me, he seems to be "mom, mom".
Since the tragic incident, her lawyer says Gomez has been the target of harassment and hostility by some officers to the Uvalde army.
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"As far as we know, there aretwo clear cases," Mark Dicarlo told HuffPost, and his client recently pulled at a transportation stop. He said he was mistakenly accused of having illegal immigrants in his car. Di Carlo says police also parked outside her house for 45 minutes and made her and her mother blink the lights of the car when they went out for a walk.
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Uvalde executivesThere was a lot of criticismabout their actions on the day of the shoot. Steve McLaugh, director of public security in Texas, said police officerhad waited more than 70 minutesbefore attacking the school and killing the shooter.
"Three minutes after the subject came in, the building on the west side was enough to isolate, distract, and incapacitate the subject. A number of armed officers wore body armor. "
"The officer had a weapon, but the children did not. The officer had a body. He had armor, but the children didn't have anything. The officers were trained, but the subjects weren't. "
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"1 hour 14 minutes 8 seconds — this is the time the kids wait in room 111 and the teachers wait "Rescue."
The May 24 attack at Rob Elementary School was the deadliest school shooting in the United States in almost a decade, and police were confused for three days. , Sometimes providing a contradictorytimeline, anger and frustration of the people.
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Authorities repeatedly sought help from 911 operators while students were telling police chiefs to wait in the hallways for more than 12 police officers. Officials said the suspect was barided in an adjacent classroom and believed that there was no longer an aggressive attack.
The chief's decision, and the officer's apparent willingness to follow his instructions for the established active shooter protocol, is more life because the officer did not act faster to stop the shooter. Responsible for prompting questions about whether it was lost and who should do it.
Di Carlo wrote to the Huff Post to the Uvalde police about what happened, but he said he didn't respond. Police have not publicly commented on Gomez's allegations.
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"They could have saved more lives." Gomez said in an interview earlier this month. "They could have been in the classroom, and maybe two or three were gone, but they could have saved the whole class, and even the whole class. What are they? May have been able to — go through the window and bite him through the window. Somethingnothing was done”
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Last week, Hal Harrell, director of the Uvalde Integrated Independent School District, saidArredondo has been confirmed to be on administrative leave.
"From the beginning of this horrific event, I shared waiting for the district to complete the investigation before making a personnel decision," Harrell said. "We have left some uncertainties and we don't know when to receive the findings, so we decided to put Chief Aledondo on administrative leave on this day."
— From Kathryn Mannie of Global News Use files
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