Read and let your thoughts marinate on this article. Angeli Gomez ran into Robb Elementary School to rescue her two children during the Uvalde school shooting. She accused law enforcement of threatening her to keep her from telling her story to the press about her engagement with the police.
According to msn.com, “Gomez said she was threatened by an officer who warned she would be charged with "obstruction of justice" if she did not stop telling her story.” The report points out that an obstruction charge—perhaps any charge—would have serious consequences because Gomez was on probation for a crime she said she committed nearly 10 years ago. She added that a local judge said there would be no legal repercussions for telling her story.
According to her statement, Gomez said she had been at the school in Uvalde, Texas, for a graduation ceremony earlier in the day. She heard that there was a shooting in progress. Gomez hurried back to the school “and confronted police officers about why they were not in the school rescuing the children. The incident ended with the mother being arrested by federal agents.”
Gomez told CBS News: "He said, 'Well, we're going to have to arrest you because you're being very uncooperative.'" Gomez said, "well you're going to have to arrest me because I'm going in there. Y'all are standing with snipers and y'all are far away. If y'all don't go in there, I'm going in there."
Evidently, moments later, Gomez was released from custody and hopped a fence to get into the school, where she rescued her two sons. At the time, the gunman, Salvador Ramos, was shooting in one of the classrooms. Both of her children survived the shooting. Two adults and 19 children were killed. Fourteen others were wounded in the massacre.
"You could hear the gunshots," Gomez said. "There was not one officer inside the school while I ran to my second son's class. There was not one officer. They could have saved many more lives. They could have gone into that classroom...they could have done something." Gomez, allegedly thereafter was threatened by police to remain silent about her encounter with the police.
The report adds that the police response to the May 24 shooting has been under what is euphemistically described as “tight scrutiny” as conflicting reports came out in the week following the shooting. Reports included that officers waited over an hour for backup while the shooter was still in the school. In what might well be described as the bureaucratic understatement of the century, the decision to do nothing was described as: “A decision Steven McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said was the wrong call.”
The Department of Justice launched an investigation into the police response last weekend.
The news report continued: “The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events," DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said.”
The msn.com report concluded with the following assertions and allegations: “Eighteen-year-old Ramos was killed on the day of the shooting, but authorities found warnings on his social media accounts that he was about to attack a school. Friends and family have described him as a twisted person who enjoyed hurting animals. Ramos shot his grandmother in the face and sent a message to a friend on the day of the massacre that he was about to shoot up an elementary school. Ramos bought 1,000 rounds of ammunition days before he attacked the school, as soon as he turned 18, according to the Independent.