[dragonme666]

Just in dispute with officer

[docfr8]

Timing is of the essence

[WindsofWoe22]

Atleast he's not going to jail now

[HeyJealousy]

Inb4 the cop is accused of being culpable in the poor SOB's "preventable death".

[11B2P]

Originally Posted by HeyJealousy ↗

Inb4 the cop is accused of being culpable in the poor SOB's "preventable death".

Smells like you are a fuckin cop lover. They are no different from other humans. You must love the uniform. There is no reason to suck the unknown cops ass. As far as he is concerned , he'll shoot you're dumb ass too. Or detain the fuck out of you for some irrational reason and you will still thank him. Fuck off clown.

[kellyhound]

hey broke a family forever,” Evelia Granados says as she hands me her phone.

The clip she wants me to see is of her three-year-old niece wailing as she rocks back and forth while clutching a photograph of César Rodríguez, her uncle (and Granados’ brother), to her chest.

The 23-year-old Rodríguez died last August 29 after being crushed by a Blue Line train during an altercation with Long Beach police officers who had engaged him at the Wardlow station over his non-payment of the $1.75 fare.

The unexpected and rather inconceivable nature of the loss and the failure to get any conclusive answers from Metro, the LBPD, or anyone else regarding what really happened that night has left the family feeling unmoored.

Granados flips through her phone looking for more clips of her niece crying about how much she misses Rodríguez. She tells me that one of her teenage nephews had such a hard time concentrating that they feared he’d be derailed from finishing high school. He would eventually pull through and graduate late, becoming the first grad in their family. But another nephew with autism was knocked off balance emotionally, even becoming suicidal at one point.

She finds a photo of her own three-year-old son and turns the phone my way again. Dressed in his Captain America costume for Halloween, the little boy stands in front of the lovingly maintained altar encompassing one side of their otherwise sparsely furnished Boyle Heights apartment. He had asked her to take the photo of him with his uncle, Granados says. He still kisses Rodríguez’ photos goodnight, greets them in the morning, and says good-bye to them when he leaves the house.

Rodríguez’ mother and sisters are also struggling to move forward. When they took their annual family trip to Big Bear, says Granados, they took his ashes hoping it would feel like he was there with them. They ended up coming home a day later instead – it just wasn’t the same. Holidays have been robbed of their shine. And this past Mother’s Day, they didn’t feel up to celebrating at the San Antonio Winery, as they usually did every year. It was just too hard.

“They stole a part of our hearts with my brother,” Granados reiterates.

The “they” she refers to is the Long Beach Police Department.

According to the official LBPD statement regarding events on the evening of the 29th,

Long Beach police officers were assisting Metro Fare Compliance Officers in the area of Pacific Avenue and Wardlow Road. While on the train platform, officers detained a suspect for fare evasion and subsequently located narcotics on him. The suspect failed to comply with the officer’s orders and attempted to flee the officer’s lawful detention.

As the suspect was attempting to get away from the officer, both he and the officer fell onto the platform. The suspect’s lower extremities were partially off the edge of the platform and the suspect was struck by an incoming Metro Train. The suspect was trapped between a train car and the platform.

It’s a slightly different story than what her family had heard when detectives finally spoke with them several days after Rodríguez’ passing.

In fact, they had not been able to get much in the way of information at all, says Granados, because the detectives seemed more interested in interrogating the family and painting Rodríguez as a potential aggressor or a hardened criminal who had good reason to flee.

“They come in and instead of telling us what happened, they start questioning us. Like, ‘Oh, what did he do for a living?’ ‘Oh, who did he live with?’ [and] ‘Do you guys know if he did any drugs?’”

Angry and confused, the family pushed back, asking if the officers had come to question the family or tell them what had happened. At one point, the exchange got testy, she says, because one of the officers admonished her for believing what she had heard on the news when she questioned his claim that Rodríguez’ fall to the platform had been an accident. The detectives, she says, made no mention of a struggle, saying only that Rodríguez had been running from officers. When she countered that the account she was referring to was the LBPD’s own statement, she says the detective paused for a moment before the questioning resumed regarding Rodríguez’ drug history and whether he had any gang affiliations.

[kellyhound]

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"Granados flips through her phone looking for more clips of her niece crying about how much she misses Rodríguez. She tells me that one of her teenage nephews had such a hard time concentrating that they feared he’d be derailed from finishing high school. He would eventually pull through and graduate late, becoming the first grad in their family. But another nephew with autism was knocked off balance emotionally, even becoming suicidal at one point."

I know these weren't intentional, but...

[Shakey]

He fought, he lost.

[sexpig4u]

Taxpayers win again