Manuela Sahagun, left, mother of Mona Rodriguez, is hugged by her son and Mona’s brother Oscar Rodriguez at a news conference on Friday. Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez, the 18-year-old mother shot by a Long Beach school safety officer, died Tuesday after more than a week on life support, her family’s lawyers announced in a statement. The school district is a “separate …
A Long Beach Unified School District safety officer speaks to a woman Wednesday outside Robert A. Millikan High School, near where 18-year-old Mona Rodriguez was shot by a different school safety officer Monday. Seth Stoughton, a former Florida police officer and a University of South Carolina law professor who studies shootings, said most law enforcement training today strongly discourages officers …
