Cell phone video captured the harrowing moment a teenage mother from California was shot in the back of the head by a school safety officer, leaving her brain dead.
And the non-left on Twitter are making much of the fact that she's not receiving the Saint George Floyd treatment from activists and the press, because the official who fired the shots is black, and she's Hispanic.
But let's look more closely at the actual details, shall we?
Rodriguez, who has a five-month-old son, was shot as she drove away from the scene near Millikan High School in Long Beach on Monday.
The scene of what? Well, not just the shooting:
That afternoon, Rodriguez had gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl. She was struck by a bullet while leaving the school in a car with the father of her child, Rafeul Chowdhury, 20, and his 16-year-old brother. None of the people in the car were students at the school.
Translation: She went to finish her beef with the girl, aided by her baby-daddy. But surely, you cry, that shouldn't warrant shooting her?
Video shows the officer fire two shots at the car, which nearly hits him as it speeds out of the parking lot. Chowdhury was driving the vehicle.
Gosh, that puts a different complexion on it, doesn't it?
Alex Cervantes, Mona's cousin, told reported she did not deserve to get shot. 'She might have been doing something she wasn't supposed to, but she was unarmed,' he said.
She was in a deadly weapon being aimed at an official trying to stop her fleeing the scene of a crime, though...
The family have launched up a GoFundMe page to help cover funeral and legal expenses, and to help support Rodriguez's son.
I hope she gets what she's worth.
"leaving her brain dead."
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to her condition before she was shot??
LOL!
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