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141: Part 2: Mario Rodriguez Survives Being Shot But Doesn’t Get Justice

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mario Rodriguez was a Detroit cop who was shot in the stomach by a felon with a long history of crime. Body cam footage shows the shooter backing into his police vehicle, firing shots at Mario and two of his partners, wounding Mario, getting shot 7 times from return fire, and requiring SWAT to finally take the shooter into custody. It should be an open-and-closed case, but not in Detroit. See how Mario was treated by an incompetent District Attorney.

Check out Mario’s new creative site at MRCreative.Studio.


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0:00.0

And stop here for a second before you go any farther because what I want people to understand too is up into this point you guys were in body cameras right?

0:19.5

Yeah, our body cams are activated. Body cams are active.

0:22.9

That's, so you're capturing everything

0:25.1

from, you know, when the first gunfire happens,

0:27.8

the vehicle backs up and he goes running off.

0:29.6

You've got this all on body cam.

0:31.3

Yeah, but it's on our body cam as well as our dash cam.

0:34.1

And yeah, and so he turns around and he flicks,

0:39.5

he flicks around at me, you know,

0:41.2

his little ghetto shoot, and he hits me just below my vest.

0:46.0

So I see him pointing and I will go back a little bit.

0:48.6

I see him pointing towards me and so I'm trying to get off the X. I'm extending my weapon out at the time to fire.

0:55.5

And he fires one off first, and it hits me below my vest.

1:01.2

And you know the thing that sucks, I'm sorry it's that these sons of

1:04.2

bitches who don't spend any time at the range. We'll hit anything anytime.

1:08.1

They hit they hit the one exposed piece, you know the one exposed I mean, thank goodness, we don't want to say

1:14.2

thank goodness it was the abdomen, but you've got soft armor, do you have a plate on or just soft armor?

1:18.9

It's just soft armor at that time. Okay. Yeah, so if I didn't punch out and I was a little bit lower it would

1:25.1

hit me right in the bottom of the soft armor but since I was punched out my

1:27.9

vest raised up just a tad and I got off I moved to the right and luckily I moved to the right, and luckily I moved to the right, because we'll just say this.

1:36.4

If I, if it had struck me a little bit more in the more center of my stomach, I probably

1:42.3

either would have bled out internally or I would have had some bad damage

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