A note from Te'Erica's mother:

Hello, my name is Shamika Tuggle, and I am the proud mother of Te’Erica Mosely, an unsung hero with a camera. We live in Denver, Colorado, but were at a store in Aurora, Colorado, an All-American city with a particularly heinous police department. This police department is known to employ brutal and lethal force on its citizens. Their own numbers indicate that they had 757 use-of-force incidents in the last year alone. I am coming to you because my daughter, Te’Erica Mosley, is now one of those victims.

But she survived. 

As we were leaving a store on the evening of November 5th we heard a man screaming “I can’t breathe.” Seeing about 10-15 Walmart employees standing at the entrance yelling at the officers. I asked Te'Erica to start recording. He had his hands in the air, no shirt on, it's snowing and he's hollering he can't breathe and begging for water. The amount of force that was being used on this young man was beyond excessive. He became surrounded by police officers and we could count around 11 cruisers. They were brutalizing this man. As Te'Erica, was still recording this incredibly brave act to record and bear witness.

When one of the officers walked over and punched her in the face. She fell back onto my cart. I pushed her up and in the same motion the officer picked her up and body slammed her to the wet snowy ground and a few of the officers, including the one who attacked Te’Erica, then detained her bringing her back to one of their cars as she was having a seizure. Te’Erica, like myself, is disabled.  

Te’Erica has been in and out of the hospital since. Her actions on November 5th were not only legal, but the responsible ones to take. 

Now, my daughters and I have to contend with hospital bills, as well as the everyday struggle of feeding our family. Every donation you make will help us fight this battle.