Video appears to show officer firing at fleeing car in incident fueling calls for removal of armed officers from schools
An 18-year-old woman is on life support after a school safety officer shot her near a high school in Long Beach, California, this week, sparking outrage and renewing calls for armed officers to be removed from schools.
The victim, identified by her family as Manuela Rodriguez, was shot while in a moving vehicle on Monday afternoon. The Long Beach police department (LBPD) said an officer for the school district was driving when he observed an altercation between Rodriguez and a 15-year-old girl taking place down the street from Millikan high school and attempted to intervene.