Young mother shot by Long Beach school officer to be taken off life support

The family of an 18-year-old mother who was left brain dead after she was shot by a Long Beach school safety officer said Friday that she would be taken off life support in the next few days and called for the officer to be criminally charged in the case.

Mona Rodriguez, the mother of a 5-month-old boy, will probably remain on life support for the next 72 hours while her body is prepared for organ donation, family members and their attorney said at a news conference outside Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. The family visited with Rodriguez earlier to say their goodbyes.

“I raised that little girl,” said Iran Rodriguez, her older brother, who attended the news conference with his brother Oscar. “The officer needs to be charged.”

Mona Rodriguez was involved in a fight with a 15-year-old girl in a parking lot near Millikan High School on Monday afternoon, then got into a gray sedan with two teenage males, said Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Arantxa Chavarria. As the sedan sped away with Rodriguez in the passenger seat, the school safety officer began shooting.

Video posted to social media appears to show the officer firing at least two shots at the vehicle after it already passed him. Rodriguez was hit in the back of the head by one of the shots.

No evidence has emerged that anyone involved in the fight was armed, and a friend of the driver said no one in the car that drove off attended Millikan High. In the video, screaming can be heard from inside the car as the passengers inside realize Rodriguez is critically wounded.

Luis Carrillo, the Rodriguez family's attorney, called on California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to open an independent investigation into the shooting. The Long Beach Police Department and Los Angeles County district attorney's office are conducting their own investigation of the case.

Yahoo News wrote:As the sedan sped away with Rodriguez in the passenger seat, the school safety officer began shooting.

Original Quill wrote:

Yahoo News wrote:As the sedan sped away with Rodriguez in the passenger seat, the school safety officer began shooting.

I don't understand.  What was the school pepsi-cop shooting at?  You can't just pull a gun and start shooting everything in sight.  Too bad that California doesn't still have the death penalty.

eddie wrote:

The family of an 18-year-old mother who was left brain dead after she was shot by a Long Beach school safety officer said Friday that she would be taken off life support in the next few days and called for the officer to be criminally charged in the case.

Mona Rodriguez, the mother of a 5-month-old boy, will probably remain on life support for the next 72 hours while her body is prepared for organ donation, family members and their attorney said at a news conference outside Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. The family visited with Rodriguez earlier to say their goodbyes.

“I raised that little girl,” said Iran Rodriguez, her older brother, who attended the news conference with his brother Oscar. “The officer needs to be charged.”

Mona Rodriguez was involved in a fight with a 15-year-old girl in a parking lot near Millikan High School on Monday afternoon, then got into a gray sedan with two teenage males, said Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Arantxa Chavarria. As the sedan sped away with Rodriguez in the passenger seat, the school safety officer began shooting.

Video posted to social media appears to show the officer firing at least two shots at the vehicle after it already passed him. Rodriguez was hit in the back of the head by one of the shots.

No evidence has emerged that anyone involved in the fight was armed, and a friend of the driver said no one in the car that drove off attended Millikan High. In the video, screaming can be heard from inside the car as the passengers inside realize Rodriguez is critically wounded.

Luis Carrillo, the Rodriguez family's attorney, called on California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to open an independent investigation into the shooting. The Long Beach Police Department and Los Angeles County district attorney's office are conducting their own investigation of the case.

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My only question is this: What the fuck was a school security guard doing with a gun and why fire at a car that’s driving away?

Maddog wrote:

eddie wrote:



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My only question is this: What the fuck was a school security guard doing with a gun and why fire at a car that’s driving away?

They are cops, not security guards.

He will claim they were trying to run him over.

He will probably get away with it. A cop did a few weeks ago as he lit up a car with girls screaming..

Yahoo News wrote:Video posted to social media appears to show the officer firing at least two shots at the vehicle after it already passed him. Rodriguez was hit in the back of the head by one of the shots.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:

They are cops, not security guards.

He will claim they were trying to run him over.

He will probably get away with it. A cop did a few weeks ago as he lit up a car with girls screaming..

Yahoo News wrote:Video posted to social media appears to show the officer firing at least two shots at the vehicle after it already passed him. Rodriguez was hit in the back of the head by one of the shots.

Repeat: "...after [the vehicle had] already passed him."  I'm not sure a California jury, especially in Long Beach, and in today's climate, will buy that after viewing the video.  California's Bane Act requires 'specific intent', and here they have it.

Original Quill wrote:Again, California does not have the same immunity laws for law enforcement, that other state's have.  The Bane Act is as follows:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=52.1.&lawCode=CIV

Maddog wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Again, California does not have the same immunity laws for law enforcement, that other state's have.  The Bane Act is as follows:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=52.1.&lawCode=CIV

We shall see.

Plenty of unpunished police in California.  

Civ. Code § 52.1(c) wrote:Any individual whose exercise or enjoyment of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of this state, has been interfered with, or attempted to be interfered with, as described in subdivision (a), may institute and prosecute in his or her own name and on his or her own behalf a civil action for damages, including, but not limited to, damages under Section 52, injunctive relief, and other appropriate equitable relief to protect the peaceable exercise or enjoyment of the right or rights secured, including appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate a pattern or practice of conduct as described in subdivision (a).