sobbing

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Bodycam footage recorded by the officers shows his mother, Coutts, sobbing on the floor and telling them it was "unfair".

From BBC • May 11, 2026

“He was sitting in my office sobbing his eyes out,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

"I was trying to keep the phone still to film her and sobbing at the same time," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

"He did not want to leave the town. He stayed, but is now in the cemetery," she told AFP, sobbing in the church hall.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Cat would be sobbing, her tiny face blotched, and her mother rocking back and forth outside, both of them with nowhere to go.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff