Nearly five decades after the murder of Santos Rodriguez by a police officer, the city of Dallas will dedicate a memorial statue on Saturday to the youth...
“When I see the picture of young Santos, I see myself,” says city councilman of murder by a city police officer.
Santos was yanked from his home before dawn, shoeless, with his brother, David for a police interrogation in a squad car. The officer thought he could force a confession with his .357 Magnum pointed near Santos’ left ear. The handcuffed boy denied he’d taken $8 in change from a vending machine. As now-deceased Officer Darrell Cain continued his questions, he pulled the trigger.
The ceremony for Santos starts Saturday, at 10 a.m. near downtown at Pike Park, his last playground, said his mother Bessie Rodriguez.the police officer was convicted of murder with malice. But Cain was given only a five-year sentence after the criminal conviction. Rodriguez has fought for years to have her son remembered, his life valued.
City councilman Jesse Moreno has pushed for a memorial for Santos since at least 2006, when he sat on the park commission. That year, a park garden was set aside in the boy’s name with the support of the Dallas Mexican American Historical League. His City Council predecessor, Adam Medrano, set aside funds to commission the art work at Pike Park. Moreno now represents the district containing Pike Park.
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