It was 50 years ago Monday that 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez was murdered by a Dallas Police officer.
Dallas also now has Latino Police Chief Garcia, who apologized to the mother of Santos Rodriguez two years ago on the anniversary of the 1973 murder.
In his squad car, questioning Rodriquez with a gun to the boy’s head over alleged theft of $8 from a vending machine, which the child did not commit, Cain fired the fatal shot by mistake. He was playing Russian Roulette and pulled the trigger on his weapon, thinking the gun was not loaded as he pressed Rodriguez to confess.Maples said he was 7 years old at the time when his father took him to the very first Rodriguez protest.
Dallas League of Latin American Citizens leader Hilda Duarte said the brother of Santos Rodriguez, who was with him in Cain’s squad car 50 years ago, is still suffering from the tragedy.
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