Uvalde mother who rescued sons from school taking pictures reacts to police reaction: ‘Turn in your badge’

The mom who saved her small children through the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school taking pictures has a message to police officers who she blames for their inaction and for keeping again mother and father: "Turn in your badge." 

Angeli-Rose Gomez, positioned in handcuffs outdoors Robb Elementary University on Might 24 just before hopping a fence and pulling her two sons out of the constructing herself, spoke with G3 Box News Electronic previous week — before a scathing 77-site report was released Sunday noting "systemic failures and egregiously lousy conclusion-building" on behalf of law enforcement responding to the lively taking pictures scenario. 

In spite of a strong response of at the very least 376 regulation enforcement officers, the new report notes a chaotic and uncoordinated scene, stressing how law enforcement officers prioritized their own security about the lives of students and lecturers and waited extra than an hour to confront 18-calendar year-old gunman Salvador Ramos. 

"Information to the cops: transform in your badge, this isn’t the position for you, you aren’t prepared to secure and provide. If you just can't own up to your occupation, flip in your badge. You permit all people down," Gomez instructed G3 Box News Digital. "All need to have to convert in their badge. All the cops mistreating us outside the house need to be punished. If they would’ve just left all the moms and dads would’ve performed way much more than they would’ve accomplished." 

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Uvalde law enforcement officers and other legislation enforcement officers are observed responding to a mass capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, in a bodycam video recorded on May possibly 24, 2022.  (Uvalde Law enforcement Department)

"I really don't know in which I bought that bravery," she extra. "I just held pondering I am not heading to stand listed here and hold out for my youngsters to die and wait around for them to tell me hrs later that my kid is lifeless." 

Her remarks arrived in reaction to previous week’s release of surveillance and entire body camera footage displaying how officers – heavily armed and outfitted with overall body armor, helmets, and some protecting shields – walked again and forth in the hallway, as others qualified their weapons or spoke on the phone or sent textual content messages or reviewed floor programs – all though hardly ever making an attempt to enter any lecture rooms. 

After the gunman experienced already opened hearth outside the house the university, prompting many 911 calls from inside and exterior the creating, the surveillance footage exhibits Ramos experienced walked inside of and peered close to a corner. As he proceeded toward classrooms 111 and 112, a boy exiting a lavatory observed the gunman standing by a classroom doorway and firing a barrage of bullets. The boy operates again into the toilet, as the gunman enters a classroom, and children are listened to screaming as the gunfire proceeds. 

"Everything has been tough now that the video has been produced. Truly feel like we are back again at sq. just one with the simple fact that cops didn’t do anything like I had always been stating. It is just horrific," Gomez instructed G3 Box News Electronic very last 7 days. "My a person son who was at recess during the shooting, he is now observing him [the shooter] in the genuine watch — viewing who he was, sees him walk close to the college, viewing how cops didn’t support his close friends and how they ran away.  It is just unforgiving."

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"I just continue to keep pondering about how my children weren’t going to get saved. I am just so grateful that I could get my sons," the mom ongoing. "Now observing the video clip, I know my sons would’ve been screaming within and they [cops] wouldn’t have completed nearly anything. Devastating they did not do nearly anything." 

The taking pictures claimed the life of 19 little ones and two grown ups. 

"I don’t know how they just did not react the way I did and the other moms and dads. I really don't know how they could not do just about anything," Gomez explained of officers inside the making. "Horrible just looking at them standing there, just one receiving hand sanitizer, another on his phone. Other police officers currently being held back."

The footage also contradicted initial claims by law enforcement officers that officers have been waiting for products. 

"Just reveals that they’ve been lying to us from the start — at initially mentioned they did not have the proper machines. I just never have an understanding of, how they were mistreating us outside the house, keeping us again, tased us, but they didn’t do just about anything like that to the shooter," Gomez stated, noting how mothers and fathers collected exterior. "I’m like what the hell, we had so a lot of dad and mom willing to go in, and they had been standing in the hallway hiding. I did not see any cops crying or receiving outraged. No sympathy, no indicator of them attempting to preserve the young children." 

The Robb Elementary University indication is seen protected in flowers and items on June 17, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas, the locale of a May mass capturing that killed 19 pupils and two instructors. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures)

"This is what everybody has been expressing, cops didn’t do everything and now there is proof," the mother added. "Some family members were mad about the video currently being unveiled, but we all wanted answers, what transpired to you all wanting to know?  Now there is evidence cops did not enable." 

Gomez also alleged that she has been harassed by police following speaking out right after the taking pictures. 

"And I experienced cops arrive and park, or they’d comply with me, but I really do not know why any one is upset with me, I just needed to save my youngsters. I didn’t eliminate any one.  I am just devastated," she mentioned. "We observed it very first just before the media, and I am satisfied it was launched.  This is what we wanted to know that they didn’t save them." 

Sunday’s report released by a Texas House of Reps committee pointed out that two officers with the Uvalde Police Division arrived at classrooms 111 and 112 just minutes right after the gunman commenced opening fireplace. The gunman fired at the officers, who have been grazed by fragments of bullets, and speedily retreated without having at any time returning fire. 1 of them then exited the developing altogether.   

According to the report, failures expanded further than just law enforcement, as the committee states "a lifestyle of complacency" rendered most safeguards meant to discourage any intruder ineffective. 

Uvalde police officers and other regulation enforcement officers are viewed responding to a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in a bodycam movie recorded on May well 24, 2022.  (Uvalde Police Office)

Instructors frequently propped inside and exterior doors open up or doors ended up still left unlocked partially thanks to a lack of keys. 

"We will need new management, feels like they are making an attempt to include almost everything up. Too many lies. Everything was a lie from the commencing," Gomez instructed G3 Box News Digital. "Why is the college staying opened in a month? We really do not even have security at the university still.  The shooter could’ve completed so substantially a lot more injury." 

The mom expressed stress with the university district and metropolis in the aftermath of the taking pictures. 

"Only a single faculty with an indoor fitness center — the large faculty, so our minor youngsters actively playing recess outdoors can be shot from the road now?" Gomez claimed. "It’s just horrific, I do not know how they feel we’re heading to belief them to set our young children again on the bus."  

"The town also took down all the stuff at the plaza that memorialized our kids and the city council stated they requested mother and father, but they did not," she said. "We needed that there for men and women not to overlook what took place, and they took it all down. I sense like they’re taking anything absent like they want to get over it." 

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Gomez pressured that lots of mom and dad and lecturers are hesitant to return come the new university 12 months. 

"We have young children in summertime college and lately there was an immigrant speed chase near the college and the young ones had to cover under their desks and after once more the young ones had to endure heading underneath the desk yet again stressing about a shooting," she reported. "It is sad to know things are not prepared. Mother and father are agreeing to not enroll young children this yr, and we have academics not ready to go again either."