At Rest

Deadly force
On a Sunday evening Rada's father called police to a domestic dispute at his house that had grown violent. Repeatedly he warned police that Rada was mentally ill and off his medications. Police arrived and confronted the unarmed sometime-bodybuilder in the front yard who refused to back down. Rada's fatal shooting was one of a string of similar incidents with mentally ill victims for which the Miami-Dade Police were criticized.
This record exists so that Cesar A. Rada, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
More lives from the archive.



