Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia apologizes to mother of Santos Rodriguez, murdered by a cop in 1973

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/07/24/dallas-police-chief-eddie-garcia-apologizes-to-mother-of-santos-rodriguez-murdered-in-1973-by-a-cop/

It’s been nearly five decades since the murder of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez by a Dallas police officer.

On Saturday, Dallas police Chief Eddie García formally apologized to Bessie Rodriguez, Santos’ 77-year-old mother. It was a first for a Dallas police chief, Rodriguez’s mother said during a memorial at Oakland Cemetery observing the 48th anniversary of Santos’ murder.

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Santos and his 13-year-old brother, David, were yanked from their beds for an interrogation in which Darrell Cain, a Dallas police officer, played Russian roulette with Santos’ life over the theft of $8 from a vending machine at a Fina gas station in what’s now Dallas’ Uptown neighborhood. Cain tugged on the trigger once. Then he pulled a second time and a bullet shot into the left side of Santos’ skull, just after the boy said again he was innocent.

His last words were: “I am telling the truth.”

[marble falls]

1. Cain killed two kids and got only five years and was out in two and a half.

[exboyfil]

2. Any apology from the corrupt judicial system

2 1/2 years for executing a kid.