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(i ™ Fain UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; Tomato Picker Pickets and Members (Unnamed) of United Farm Workers Union; San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office Stockton, California - Complainant between officers of the SJCSO, a Deputy District Attorney from San Joaquin County, an attorney representing the UFW, and Mr, Manuei~Chavez, cousin of UFW leader Cesar Chavez. At this time, according to the SJCSO, when a complaint was not forthcoming for the arrest of the grower representative, Chavez accused the SJCSO of being a racist police department, that they were on the growers' side, that they were going to hear fram them, that they were going out into the community to get them (SJCSO), and stated thatf--- the police, we are going to take them on. Chavez departed the scene of the sit-in at that point after talking to his people. Tomato picking activity in the Stockton vicinity has been curtailed as of August 1, 1974, due to the drop in the eastern market and a corresponding drop in picketing activity has occurred and is anticipated to be somewhat reduced for the immediate period. However, UFW demon- strations are occurring at the county courthouse, and it is anticipated that there will be some courtroom disruption when the Mexican-American defendants who have been arrested by the SJCSO are brought in for court appearance, i. po as in a radio news broadcast in WQOXNE Stockton stated that the matter concerning his allegation of civil rights violations against his department is under consideration by the Civil Rights Nivision of the U. S. Department of Justice. 3*