Defense Questions Uvalde School Aide's 'Perception' & Implies Mistaken Identity

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The defense cross-examination of Melodye Flores in former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales child endangerment trial focused on her testimony about the gunman's location and her interaction with a police officer she believes was Gonzales. Gonzales' lawyer Nico LaHood implies Flores actually spoke to a different officer when she urged a cop to stop the gunman before he went inside the fourth grade building. (You can watch Flores testify in direct-examination with Prosecutor Bill Turner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL8WE6Afr5o) 00:21 "it's not that I'm questioning your character, but we're going to be — I may be questioning, questioning your perception or your memory, okay? But just don't take that as a personal attack," LaHood tells Flores 01:36 "But you described outbursts, and you have to deal with outbursts, and as a daddy of us, son on the spectrum, it's a meltdown." 04:44 "The jury's heard a lot about lockdowns, but one of the things you said is a major part of the lockdown is you have to make sure the doors are locked. You remember saying that?" "Yes. "Why is that so important in a lockdown?" "Just make sure nobody's ... gonna go in." "And so those doors are really, are really the only barrier between anyone with bad intentions and the teacher and the children inside, right?" 07:05 "The shooter was some somewhere out here when he shot you.." "No, he comes out right here..." 07:24 "And these shots towards you, are these the first shots that you had heard?" 09:14 "Are you aware that there's no evidence of shooting, they call them defects, that they're shooting on in that direction — are you aware that there are no?" "No." Turner objects for misstating the evidence, says " there's a defect in building 24" 12:27 "Okay, and so you described that officer in that vehicle as having a khaki pants, correct?" "Yes." "A white shirt, correct?" "Yes." "Short-sleeve white shirt?" "Yes." "And a full beard." "And so if I represent to you that Mr. Gonzales had a dark uniform on, no white shirt, no short sleeves, and no khaki pants, and did not have a beard. That's kind of an example of your perception, right?" 14:50 "There's a lot going on in your mind at that time, right?" "Yes." "And so you perceive Mr. Gonzales as you didn't know was him at the time, him as pacing, right?" "right?" "But he was getting out. He's assessing you because you're yelling things at him, right?" "Yes." 20:15 "You really thought that he had entered here?" "Yes." "And so you're yelling at the officer, and you're telling them, you're saying he's on this side of the building, and you're pointing here because you really thought it was on the south side of the building. And so there's this dialog back and forth between you and the officer for those two to seven minutes, right?" 23:16 "you describe it a jury, and the government asked you, you go to that classroom, and you see that officer go, move up. He moves up at some point, right? Do you agree with that?" 27:42 "At some point, you told the Ranger Pettis and Mr. Garza that you believed the gunman had a handgun?" "At some point, yes." 28:52 "So this officer didn't even know where the fourth grade building was, right?" "Right." "That's how you perceived it. That's what he said. Because Robb Elementary, unfortunately did not have a full-time officer." 29:45 Turner on re-direct 31:38 "And when you saw the man with what you perceived as a gun, whether handgun or rifle, you turned and ran?" Turner asks "Right," Flores answers ****************************************************************************** Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/subscribe