A mother who was shot in the leg while shielding one of her four sons from gunfire during the Dallas sniper attack paid an emotional tribute to the police officers who saved their lives.
Shetamia Taylor broke down in tears during a press conference at Baylor Medical Center on Sunday as she recounted the terrifying sequence of events that unfurled during the Black Lives Matter protest last Thursday.
From a wheelchair, the 37-year-old described in alarming detail how her family was preparing to leave the rally when the shooting began. As she tried to run away, a bullet struck her in the leg.
Taylor tackled her 15-year-old son, Andrew to the ground and covered him with her body. A police officer then risked his own life to shield the pair.
“There was another one (officer) at our feet, and there was another one at our head,” said Taylor. “They stayed there with us. I saw another officer get shot right there in front of me.”
When it was safe to do so, the officers bundled Taylor and her son into a bullet-riddled patrol car and rushed her to the hospital for treatment. There she underwent surgery for a fractured bone, and is expected to take five months to recover from her injury.
Taylor, who brought her children to the march following the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, said she was “so thankful” for the officers’ heroic actions.
“Thank you for being heroes,” Taylor said. “I’m thankful for the police because they had no regard for their life and protected us.”
“They stayed there with us, they surrounded my son, and I’m so thankful for that because all I could do was lay on top of him and pray,” she said, adding she was “so sorry” that five officers lost their lives.
Despite her ordeal, Taylor plans to march in future rallies.
“I don’t want them to think I’m a quitter, because I am not,” she said.
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