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oe ee mpewrenpere eT Ls alll ae ae a ~- ae ‘the people inthe | “4s threw rocks at us. Then hi. -qd, “Listen gir) - I can give you two t..kets, one for honking and o talking back to an officer and ould arrest you toot So I sai o ahead. Then Gus was coming and McCluskey said to me ff: those guyscome I'm going to tell them to leave and ff they don’t leave they're going to be thrown in. jail. When Gus asked what we had done , McCluskey wouldn't tel] him anything. He just. told him to leave and go back and join the other people. eee aitresPeutierrer ( ty 12, 1969) continuation of above incident . We saw a sheriff stop a car down the road with two girls fn it who were “= strikers. So Gus and I drove down to see why they had stopped the car. when we got out of the car the vfficer with the girls said get back in your car and get out of here. Gus asked him why and he said J'm conducting official business here and I don't want you interferring. I asked him if awe could wait in our car. He said “I'm teliing you to get out of here" Then I asked how far we had to go, He said 1'31 tell you in about 30 seconds. Then another patrol car drove up. Right then, ficCloskey, the officer questioning the girls tols us we were under arrest and seid put your hands on the car. We asked him why we were under arrest and he said for disobeying a lawful order, They they searched us, handcuffed both of us behind our backs. Then Lt. Lane came and asked why McCloskey had arrested us and he told him. Lane said OK. Then the paddy wagon came ee and Lane told the driver to take fiim (pointing to Gus) righyt’#n. so emer McCloskey then said to me "J'11 teach you that when I give you an order I mean it; I'1] teach you respect for an officer." They then handcuffed us together and put us in the paddy wagon. . seve : a ae Z . rr cee fe were the last car out from the picket line and one of the sheriffs ° stopped us. The only reason he gave us was he claimed our license Lo plate was dirty. He wouldn't allow us to ask any questions and became very defensive when we did ask him some. He kept Bert and J about 15 m inutes checking our identification and telling us how well he knew the law. He called Bert a “hippie” and even made him show identification even though - he was only a passenger fn my car and the alleged reason for stopping] wes the dirty plate. . : . i a Another thing that fs very obvious fs that Lt. Lane, the officer én charge ~ of the sheriffs is al very defensive whenever you ask him questions bd : . . DimAvtkowski Jul pole _ &é started setting up*the picket line around 5 2.m. and while we were doing -. 22> 3o Lt. Lane came over to Gus and warned him about making too much noise with “=. - the P.A.-system or that the family across the street would file a complaint. “<>. ‘Gus had to leave for a while and about 11 sinutes later Raul Gallegos . = began using the system to say huelga to the workers in the fiels. ‘He had not saidit more that three or four times when Lene came over and asked $f he had tatked with Gus about using the system. During this time one of the - forenen had driven up in his pickup © ¥GN 7321) and was having an o’viously friendly conversation with Lane. dane then told Raul that if he didn't - stop using the system the man next door would file a complaine,and - all the picketers would be named fn tt and he implied they all would be - arrested. After this the owner of the ranch joined Lane and the foreman = and continued the friendly conversation. The owner then went over and = _-; talked with the man in the house who Lane said had threatend to make the gon- = TSP 43] a