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- with his lights blinking. I stopped. He came and asked me for my Vicense and W'3) just shoot n the head" 1 don't know if Ors serious. 1 guess he was Just trying frighten me. tues PZ _— One morning I drove with Gustovo to Litchfield from Arakelian Ranch to buy @ newspaper and take a phone call. One of the sheriffs followed us~ all the way into Litchficld. He then waited while we made the call and then followed us all the way back. He Hue fi Ktie s and I and four others in the car were following the bus of contractor Rosales which goes to £1 Mirage and Surprize. We followe them fcr about four miles when on Waddell Rd one of the sheriffs cars got fn front of us and deliberately tried to slow us down so we would Jose the bys. Then fn £1 Miragethe sheriff got in front of us and the £1 Mirage patrol car behind us. They stopped us and said we couldn't follow and “harass’ the people like that, They took all our fdentification. Gus said that we -had a right to talk to the people and their homes. Then we left and tried to catch the bus again on Grand Avenue. Then the same police car Stopped us again and said one of the sheriffs wanted to talk to us at the police station in £1 Mirage and asked us to follow him there. We went to the police station but there was no sheriff. They asked us our names and addresses again and then told us to leave. They actually had noting to, talk to us about _ but only wanted to preven: us from following the bus which we had a i right to do. - On another occasion Albert Torres and a few other men who had been on strike — with us decided to bo back to work at Sikes Ranch where there was no strike at the time. The sheriffs spotted them on the road and followed them al) the way into the ranch. There the sheriff deputy went to the foreman and told him that these men had been on strike and had been picketing. Me} (duly 12) 1 saw a dirt clod thrown from inside the field hit 2 striker's car.-The strtter went and complained to the sheriff who indifferently replied “I don't ee know who threw it.” No effort was made ti {nvestigate the incident or to Speak to a foreman to prevent further ‘Ancidents. : ; cet Matta & Mell Me were driving to Get water and as J passed ‘throughg the other group of picketers 1 honked to them. Officer McCloskey heard me and then came after me I told him I didn't have ft with he. He asked my name and address and called “dn to see ff I had a license and they told him yes. Then 1 asked him shy : he stopped me. He said because there was a law against honking ‘horns. 7 told him we had been doing it since the beginning of the strike and the officers never said anything before. He said the rule started yesterday = g@orning. Then I> said they hadn‘t told us about that rule. Mellie then Baid that the police were Just harassing the people on strike. He said he - was on nobody's side. I then asked him why they didn't do anything when