Los Angeles DA George Gascón walked back his statement after being called out by Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
called out Gascón and said "We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency," Gascón's office corrected the statement on Saturday, stating that the sheriff's office was not involved.
Video surveillance caught the incident on camera, which shows the car hitting the mother, who was walking her child in a stroller. "I thought those were the last moments of our lives; we were dead," the mother, who asked to be identified only as Rachel, wrote in a. "That feeling, along with the memory of a car accelerating directly into us, will haunt me forever."
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