Horrifying bodycam shows Houston mom mowed down by cop before screaming children sob by her body

Police screamed successful panic and desperately tried to revive a parent they ran implicit successful the thoroughfare arsenic her distraught children watched, bodycam and dashcam footage shows.

Desire Pool, 41, was mowed down astatine afloat velocity by Houston policewoman Shelby Kennedy astatine 9.52pm connected September 19 and died connected the roadworthy contempt CPR efforts.

The Houston Police Department released video from 5 differnet angles conscionable hours earlier Thanksgiving showing Pool being hit, and the contiguous aftermath.

Pool and her 2 daughters, aged 10 and 18, and their sibling had conscionable got disconnected a autobus and were crossing the street, without a crosswalk, and she dropped her autobus pass.

As she bent down to prime it up, Kennedy's constabulary car, that was carrying a fishy to lockup, plowed into her astatine afloat velocity arsenic her children got retired of the way.

'Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Oh, my... God! You didn't spot them?' Kennedy's spouse Officer Joshua Rosales shouted. 'No!' she replied.

The brace got retired of the car portion radioing for help, and began CPR connected Pool arsenic her children watched, screaming and crying hysterically.

'My mom! Y'all killed my mom!' 1 shouted astatine them.

Another got down and grabbed her hand, pleading 'Mama, bash not dice connected me... Come on, pray, pray.'

As Rosales adminstered CPR, helium told his spouse to 'breathe'.

Pool was officially pronounced dormant nce she got to hospital.

Her uncle Lee Gordon said Kennedy needed to beryllium 'held accountable', and a nationalist apology from HPD wouldn't beryllium enough.

'Her 2 children saw their parent get mowed down successful the street. They're having nightmares. We're trying our champion to get them intelligence wellness attraction truthful we tin get them backmost to normal,' helium told ABC.

Pool's household said they weren't warned astir erstwhile the footage was going to beryllium made nationalist connected the department's YouTube channel.

"I don't cognize what she (Kennedy) was doing. She could've been looking astatine the small machine that she has close there, oregon immoderate she had, oregon immoderate she had truthful that her imaginativeness was obstructed to wherever she had to had to look determination else,' Pool's 18-year-old lad Jalen Gary said.

The deadly clang was besides caught connected camera by a surveillance astatine a adjacent business, showing the 3 kids lasting connected the thoroughfare arsenic their ma kneels down.

As the achromatic and achromatic bull car barrels past the autobus halt and towards then, the kids are capable to scramble retired of the road, but not their mom. 

Witnesses described seeing the ma look to driblet her autobus card, and spell backmost into the roadworthy to get it erstwhile she was deed by the car.

'We got a large crowd. They were precise upset astir what had conscionable occurred and they kinda conscionable each dispersed,' Houston Police Commander Luis Menendez-Sierra said.

HPD insisted astatine the clip that the officers did thing wrong. 

'The patrol conveyance struck a pedestrian successful the roadway, not successful a crosswalk,' the Houston Police Department said successful a statement.

Two officers riding successful a marked patrol car were taking a fishy to the section jailhouse erstwhile the car collided with the woman. 

'Officers instantly stopped and rendered assistance to the injured female.' 

The pistillate was taken to a section infirmary wherever she died.

None of her children were injured.  

'A preliminary probe indicates that velocity is not believed to beryllium a origin successful the clang and that the pedestrian failed to output close of mode to a vehicle,' HPD said.