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Pauly Chavez (continues) . . . Due to this harrassi(¥ Yrs, Andreas Gallegos who Ornoit hit by officer Burrows was so scaret”by this activity she almost fainted and had to be taken into a tar for treatment. Mrs. Gallegos lives at 11520 N. 79th Ave. Wrs. Soledad Belarde was also pushed by one of the police cars. Altogether there were 3 patrol cars present, 31 officers and the paddy wagon. ~, C, : Mrs. Andrey\Gallegos er account of same incident We were walking on the picket line. The sheriffs parked their cars on either sie of the tracks and the pickets had to wald between the two cars. Each sheriff moved his car approximately four feet from the tracks $o that the 25 - 30 of us present were supposed to march between that space. As they moved their cars closer, they came up against the people, actually touching them with their cars. I became so upset by the sheriffs" actions “that I had to be taken away when I felt 1 wes becoming §11..1 was then unable to continue picketinf for the remainder of the time the pickets were there. We. then moved the picket Jine to the other shoulder of the road. Carolinatrosales Hh : ee Even though fn three solid weeks of picketing there have been no arrests except for the first day when two men were arrested for supposedly blocking traffic (see above acount of Mel Huey) the shefiffs have brought out their paddy wagone just about every day. Often they back it up right next to the picket line and open the door. Other time they park it directly across the > street from the picketers or drive it slowly back and forth past the Coe picket line. Also [ have frequently seen officers go into the fields to get’ se" _ grapse f the ranchers and then return to their cars to eat them. EVioMolavers(July 1, 1969) BELZ a While picketing at the Bodine ranch, one of the ranch supervisors who I saw - Several time inside the ranch during the day, drove his Buick Riviera with a smashed rear up to the sheriff parked outside and gave him a thermos bottle. Pauly also saw tiis same man bring the sheriff a thermos earlier in the day. - Pauly Chavez (duly 6, 1969) “Iwas distributing leaflets with Tony Mendosa at the corner of Cotton > _ and Olive. I had asked two plain clothes men who were ther:{f 1t would be wall right, They said 1t would be al)-right 4f J didn't obstruct traffic. te SS “ gontinued to do so and the plainclothesmen watched us. Then Lt. Land drove =~ @round the corner, stopped his car and came up to me. He shouted at me- - “Get out of the goddamn road" J said that I wasn't on the road but on the shoulder. He them repeated “Get out of the goddamn road." - * : Biias\elavers (duty 4, 3969) pte Z - ; Pauly and were standing bythe side of the road picketing. Officer Pitts - who was parked nearby called Pauly over to Ais car and said "Listen Buster, I'm going to tell you once and only once not to throw things at passing * cars. The next time I tel] you anything 1'11 be advising you of your gights”. I had been with Pauly the whold time and nothing had been thrown at any * time. The passing car that occasioned this warning had been one of oui a | RIOR TR Sree | Purves Caplan: