One year after a California school officer killed a teenager, families fight to remove armed campus guards

Mona Rodriguez's killing fueled a movement to transform Long Beach's approach to student safety: Fund schools, not officers"

On 27 September 2021, a school officer in Long Beach, California, tried to intervene in an altercation between teenagers down the street from a high school where he worked.

As a group of the youth drove off in a car, the officer fired two shots at the vehicle, striking 18-year-old Mona Rodriguez, who was a passenger and unarmed. Eight days later, she was taken off life support and died. She left behind a five-month-old baby.