Unarmed Teen Shot, Killed By Police, Cried For His Mother: 'Mommy, Mommy, Please Come' (xpost GD)

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/hector-morejon-police-shooting_n_7165106.html

Lucia Morejon cannot escape the haunting memory she has of the final desperate words spoken to her by her teenage son after he was shot by police: "Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come."

Hector Morejon, the youngest of five children, made that plea for help after he was shot by a Long Beach, California, police officer, who allegedly thought the 19-year-old was in possession of a firearm Thursday afternoon....

"He was reaching for her -- reaching out to her for help," lawyer Sonia Mercado told The Huffington Post. "She identified herself as his mother, expecting to ride with him to the hospital, but they refused to let her in."

The chilling words -- "Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come" -- are the same words Lucia Morejon hears when she closes her eyes today, five days after her son's death, Mercado said.

Gosh, I love my Blue state!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. To be unable to save your child.....horrible, horrible. My heart goes out to her.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. Nothing blue about that area of the state, and there are many others just as bad.

[KamaAina]

3. Long Beach?

That's L.A. County.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. It is real close to Orange county I thought

BUT

BUT

doesnt matter, lots of asshole LA cops too, for sure

[KamaAina]

5. It is

but it's quite diverse.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. I once got on a ship there

that is about all i know

[BrotherIvan]

7. Very diverse

But cops are a problem everywhere it seems. LAPD is one of the worst. Guess the same applies for Long Beach.

I can't even imagine what this family is going through...How can we make it stop??

[libdem4life]

8. Same with the LA County Sheriff's office. This was 25 years ago...last I lived there.

[No Vested Interest]

9. I have read that young soldiers, wounded and dying on the battlefield,

cry out for their mothers, during wars from the Civil War to WWII, and perhaps our recent and continuing wars.

There most be something very basic about the need for comfort and love from their mothers in the last moments, when life is slipping away.