When police misconduct occurs, records often stay secret. One mom's fight to change that.

[SummerMadness]

When police misconduct occurs, records often stay secret. One mom's fight to change that.

Leticia de la Rosa sat impatiently in the hospital lobby, desperate to find out if her son was still alive.

Hours before, a relative had spotted what looked like her son's Jeep in a TV news story about a police shooting. De la Rosa arrived on the scene and burst past the police tape, demanding to know the name of the man who had been shot and where he had been taken.

De la Rosa would later learn that one officer who was assigned to stay with her son's body decided to play with it, moving James de la Rosa's head to see if it would move back, and tickling the corpse's toes.

 

[Ana the Ist]

When police misconduct occurs, records often stay secret. One mom's fight to change that.

I'm curious why they would have an officer guarding a corpse. I can't say I've ever heard of that before.