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Murder of Santos Rodriguez (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 month ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/wikipedia@sh.itjust.works

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Two Dallas Police officers broke into a private home without a warrant, snatched two boys, 12 & 13 years old, out of their beds, handcuffed them, drove them to a burglary scene, and then one cop, in a "game of Russian roulette as interrogation technique" supposedly gone horribly wrong, blew the cuffed and seated 12-year-old boy's brains out.

He served two and half years in prison.

Fingerprinting later confirmed the boys had nothing to do with the burglary.

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

"My God, My God, What have I done, I didn't mean to do it."

He pointed a gun at a teenager to force them to give a (false) confession. Repeatedly. Even if he didn't mean it or if the gun never shot, it's sick to imagine the whole lead up to that crime. His actions were disturbing and wicked from the very start. And that important nuance was seemingly ignored when he was sentenced.