Nearly 50 years after a 12-year-old boy was murdered by a Dallas police officer, hundreds of people gathered to remember Santos Rodriguez and the crime against him.
Nearly 50 years after a 12-year-old boy was murdered by a Dallas police officer, hundreds of people gathered to remember Santos Rodriguez and the crime against himThere was an emotional ceremony at Pike Park at the aptly named Santos Rodriguez Recreation Center Saturday morning.She didn’t speak publicly during the ceremony for her son, but her silent gratitude and sorrow spoke volumes.
“I think that this statue allows his memory and what happened to live on,” said Fonya Mondell, with Dallas Park & Recreation, Council District 2. The spot of that statue was once a swimming pool in Pike Park that Santos Rodriguez visited as a child. This sculpture is how he looked when in 1973 a Dallas police officer pulled him and his brother from their home, accused them of an $8 theft from a vending machine, and shot and killed the teenager.
“So much change happened because of this. The marches that happened, and the political activism from the Hispanic community really helped make a change in where we’re at today, with their voices being heard,” said Mondell.
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