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Mother Who Rescued Her Children From Uvalde Shooter Threatened With Probation Violation if She Speaks to Media

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 4th, 2022

In the wake of the horrific massacre that took place in Uvalde, Texas last week, stories began to surface of a heroic mother who took it upon herself to rescue her own children while local law enforcement sat by and did nothing.  

Angeli Rose Gomez was handcuffed by police after attempting to save children when it became apparent that the police weren’t going to act. Upon her release from restrainment, she immediately rushed inside the building, essentially taking matters into her own hands.

Now that the shooting has become a household topic across the nation, the widely scrutinized Uvalde Police are threatening Gomez with probation violation for obstruction of justice if she speaks to the media. This is based on a charge against her from a decade ago.

“Nothing was being done,” Gomez said of the cops who held her back during an interview with CBS. “If anything, they were being more aggressive against us parents who were willing to go in.”

“I told one of the officers, I don’t need you to protect me. Get away from me. I don’t need your protection,” Gomez said. “If anything, I need you to go in there with me and protect my kids.”

Gomez says that she had heard shots in one of the classrooms while she was inside the school, and that there were no police in the building with her at the time. This apparently took place after the police declared there was no longer an active shooter, which is certainly newsworthy.

“He said, ‘Well, we’re going to have to arrest you because you’re being very uncooperative,” Gomez told CBS. “I said, well you’re going to have to arrest me because I’m going in there.”

“I’m telling you, I don’t see any of y’all in there. Y’all are standing with snipers and far away. If y’all aren’t going in there, I’m going in there,” she said, describing what she told the officers.

If there were still shots being fired and local law enforcement was saying that there was no longer an active shooter, then it is either gross incompetence or something more nefarious. Regardless of which way you slice it, the fact the Uvalde Police are threatening Gomez over talking to the media is not helping their case.