Before he was shot and killed by a Dallas Police officer nearly five decades ago, Santos Rodriguez would play at Pike Park. Now, a statue of Rodriguez is coming up in the same park where he once played
Pictured is David Rodriguez, 13, and his brother Santos in 1973, only months before Santos was murdered by a Dallas police officer.Before he was shot and killed by a Dallas Police officer nearly five decades ago, Santos Rodriguez would play at Pike Park. In 1973, the 12-year-old Mexican-American boy, along with his older brother, were picked up by police who suspected they robbed a vending machine.
Darrell Cain, the now-deceased officer who killed Rodriguez, was later convicted of murder in a criminal trial but only spent two and a half years in prison. People still shout Rodriguez's name at protests against police brutality all these years later. This weekend, the city of Dallas will memorialize Rodriguez with a six-foot statue at one of his last playgrounds: Pike Park.
“After nearly 50 years following the murder of #SantosRodriguez, we will forever memorialize Santos with the dedication of a statue in his likeness,” Moreno said in a post on Twitter. “We must apologize as a police department, a department made up of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said. “On behalf of the Dallas Police Department, as a father, I am sorry. We are sorry that someone trusted to protect you, someone who wore the same uniform I proudly wear today took your son and took David’s brother away by way of murder.”
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