Jillian Wuestenberg, the 32-year-old white woman who faces felony charges for threatening a black family at gunpoint outside a Michigan restaurant last week, tearfully pleaded her case Thursday in a interview with a local television station.
“There’s a lot of missing facts, a lot of things that were only seen from one side, and not through our eyes,” Wuestenberg told WXYZ Channel 7.
Wuestenberg was accompanied during the interview by her husband – Eric Wuestenberg, 42, also charged in the incident and fired – as well as their attorney.
“It was just an attack, plain and simple, from the other side,” Jillian Wuestenberg said. “We were reprimanded, our race was dragged. I just wanted to go home with my kids and feed my kids. »
Wuestenberg acknowledged that she may have hit 15-year-old Makayla Green with her bag as she left the restaurant, but said she did not understand how the incident escalated. Wuestenberg claims she tried to apologize to Makayla but eventually pulled out her gun – which had been placed under her t-shirt – after being ‘approached quickly and aggressively’ by ‘several people’ who approached each other. found “less than a meter” from her. (Makayla Green and her mother, Takelia Hill, were unarmed.)
“It’s hard to watch, it’s scary,” Wuestenberg said of the video of the incident, which has been viewed millions of times online. “The more I see it, the more I realize that I am more afraid of this situation now than I was then. I was terrified then and my terror has just been exponentially greater since then, looking back, seeing how much danger I really was. … I remember thinking, I’m not going home tonight. »
Wuestenberg said she grew up with lots of guns and rifles – “they were just a part of everyday life” – and admitted to chambering a bullet during the incident. “It meant I’m about to die and I don’t want to die,” she said.
She also spoke about allegations of racism: “I never saw myself as ignorant or racist. I have genuine love for every person I meet. Everyone has a story, everyone is important, and it really crushed me to the core of who I am, because I really adore every person I meet. … There’s so much hate in this world right now and I don’t want a single person to feel what we’re feeling right now. »
When asked if there was anything she would have done differently, Wuestenberg replied, “I would have stayed home and cooked.”
Watch the interview as well as the original video below.
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