Dallas Morning News
Originally Posted: August 30, 2015
Seattle park honors Dallas 12-year-old killed by police
At Santos Rodriguez Memorial Park, the playground draws children with its red-and-blue slides and green-and-yellow monkey bars. The lush gardens entice adults to stroll and smell the blooms. A plaque honors the memory of a boy killed by a Dallas police officer in 1973.
The irony here is that the park sits in Seattle, some 1,600 miles from the city where Santos was raised and died. In Dallas, there is no park or plaque in his honor, and that puzzles some who want that to change.
“They can do that in Seattle, but they can’t do that in Dallas,” asked Bessie Rodriguez, the 71-year-old mother of Santos, who died 42 years ago this July. READ MORE