The lawsuit alleges the officer used a more lethal “hollow point” round, killing an 18-year-old who was a passenger in a car driving away
in criminal court. The lawsuit further alleges that the district was “negligent” in its hiring, training and oversight of the officer, and “vicariously liable” for his conduct.
The slaying of Mona Rodriguez occurred on September 27th, in a parking lot more than a block away from the campus of Millikan High School. The 51-year-old Gonzalez was conducting after-school traffic duty when 18-year-old Mona Rodriguez and another teen allegedly engaged in a scuffle in the street. The officer helped break up the altercation. But when Rodriguez — who was not a student at the school — jumped in the car of her boyfriend, Gonzalez moved to confront her.
The civil suit calls the shooting of the teenager an “intentional, reckless, negligent, and unjustified use of deadly force,” noting that Rodriguez was “unarmed and she was not an imminent threat” to Gonzalez, whom the suit underscores was “far outside of his jurisdiction” as a campus officer. The Long Beach Unified School District, the suit alleges, shares in liability for the incident. The complaint describes the district as “vicariously liable” for the actions of its employee. But it also alleges the LBUSD was negligent in hiring and retaining Gonzalez in the first place. Gonzalez had been terminated, the suit claims, after short stints as an officer at two Southern California police departments — Los Alamitos, and Sierra Madre.
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