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+ ae: —_ © ry '. ehecking our identification and telling us how well he knew the law, He loure . a1] the picketers would be named in ft and he implied they all ‘would be @alked with the man in the house who Lane said had threatend to make the gon-_ ; oe - a ee me the people inthe | “ds threw rocks at us. Then hi -4d, “Listen gir? - I can give you two t..kets, one for honking and 2K. talking back to an officer and ( gould arrest you too? So I saio ahead. Then Gus was coming and McCluskey said to me if: those guyscome I'm going to tell them to Teave and ff they don't leave they're going to be thrown in. fail. When Sus asked what we had done , McCluskey wouldn't tet] him anything. He just. “told him to leave and go back and join the other people. ; oe artredAlcutierres whirAiay a y_12, 1969) continuation of above incident - We saw a sheriff stop a car down the road with two girls in 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 ufficer with the girls said get back in your car and get out of here. Gus asked him why and he said I'm conducting official business here and I don't want you interferring. I asked him if we 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 HcCloskey had arrested us and he told him. Lane said OK. Then the paddy wagon came 7 and Lane told the driver to take fim (pointing to Gus) righyt-#n. lee McCloskey then said to me "J'11 teach you that when I give you an order Tmean it; I'll teach you respect for an officer.’ " They then handcuffed us together and put us in the paddy wagon. oT duerMiivarez _ fF (Ze | re a oe yaaa am We dere 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 ; cent plate was dirty. He wouldn't allow us to ask any questions and became very JB ‘defensive when we did ask him some. He kept Bert and J about 15 m inutes _ 1 calted Bert a "hippie" and even made him show identification even though .~ =a, - he was only a passenger fn my car and the alleged t reason for stopping] Le was the dirty plate. — Ee fer 4 Another thing that #s very obvious is that Lt. Lane, the officer in charge. ° of the sheriffs is always very defensive whenever you ask him questions. ee ud started setting up‘*the picket Vine around 5 a.m. and while we were © doing ae so Lt. Lane came over to Gus and warned him about making too much noise with “=. the ?.A.-syctem or that the family across the street would file a complaint. ea ‘Gus had to leave for a while and about 1] minutes 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 Ss = had talked with Gus about using the system. During this time one of the -.= >=... foremen had driven up in his pickup @ ¥GN 7321) and was having an obviously ig 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 © — arc. arrested. After this the owner of the ranch joined Lane and the Foreman = > a= oe and continued the friendly conversation. The owner then went over and _ spe Prmiaaeaic ——— ers ie