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An 18-year-old mother has been left brain dead after a school safety officer shot her in the back of the head, her family says.
Mona Rodriguez, who has a 5-month-old son, was reportedly driving away after a fight with a 15-year-old girl, when the officer opened fire. Rodriguez was in the passenger seat; the 20-year-old father of her child, Rafeul Chowdhury, and his 16-year-old brother were also in the car at the time. Neither male was hurt.
The shooting, which occurred near Millikan High School in Long Beach on Monday afternoon and not on school grounds was captured by a witness on cellphone camera, and obtained by KTLA; it appears to show the officer approach the stopped car's passenger-side window.
The car suddenly turns right and speeds off past him, when at least two shots are fired at the departing vehicle.
"He has his gun!" the witness can be heard exclaiming. "No! Get down!" she screams as the shots ring out.
https://toofab.com/2021/09/30/cali-teen-mom-brain-dead-after-being-shot-in-back-of-head-by-school-safety-officer-while-driving-away-from-fight/
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
This is straight up murder.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)riversedge
(69,727 posts)kids were not going to Mexico. No excuse to start shooting!
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)Even with weapons he has no business firing at a car moving away from him. He shouldn't even have had his gun out. He has no business following a suspect off school grounds as well.
This is wrong in so many ways.
calimary
(80,699 posts)How about his freedumb for about 20 years? A nice room in the nearest state prison would be appropriate.
brush
(53,475 posts)of the case of the white guy shooting into the car of several unarmed Black teenagers at a convenience store because he thought their music was too loud.
He's in jail now.
All that trigger-happy, bozo cop should've done was get the car's license plate number to follow up later on whatever happen at the school. Now he's ruin his life, his family's life and the life's of woman shot and her family's.
Just dumb. Every tom dick and harry shouldn't be entrusted with gun.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)And go to jail. Do not pass GO.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)Could probably find a better source tho.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,854 posts)He could not possibly have "feared for his life". This is malice aforethought.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Whatever authority he even had, did not exist, since he wasn't even at the school when the shooting occurred. He just had a gun, and was determined to use it, and figured he could hide behind his so-called "badge."
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)year old girl, and possibly the two men, may have assaulted the 15 year-old.
Thats serious and they may have sped away from school police. Again, highly unlikely shooting was justified, but thats serious enough to make some effort toward detaining them.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... or didn't ID himself and the kids just saw a gun and the driver stepped on the gas.
Unfortunately the driver turned towards the LEO which ... well of course shot at anything moving.
This is another case where they didn't have to detain with use of deadly force seeing it was a school fight.
The kids who were fighting were known, they had tags etc etc ...
You'd think LEOs would be more scared of CV than teenagers seeing CV has killed more of them than anything1
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)those in car later if they found 15 year-old was assaulted by the 3 people.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)... called until after after the woman was murdered. None of the entire event happened on school property. He had walked up to the side of the car after they drove from the scene, and stopped at a stop sign. As the car made the right turn, the cop pulled his piece and shot the woman who was in the passenger side back seat.
Driving slow enough to have a person walk up to the car and stopping at stop signs are not the hallmarks of a wild escape.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... let people go versus shoot at everyone and endanger everything.
I wonder if other countries cops get paid vacation after they shoot someone.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... everything moving.
She DID turn into were the cop was standing but it was the cop who pulled the gun and spooked everyone in the car.
This will be another one of those "justified" shootings because the reaction of the driver but another instance where shoot everything moving isn't the best way to serve the public.