The State - News from Sept. 25, 1988

The Chicano Civil Rights Network of Fresno and other groups are banding together to fight what they claim is widespread “police terrorism” against Latinos in several California cities. The effort comes after the alleged police beating of Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers first vice president and co-founder. Huerta, 58, was hospitalized with a ruptured spleen and two fractured ribs in a Sept. 14 protest in San Francisco against Vice President George Bush. Huerta is out of the hospital, but she is “still having difficulty breathing and is in a lot of pain,” a UFW spokesman said. “It’s no longer just the young kids in the street that are getting beat up,” said G. Casas Acosta, second vice president of the Mexican American Political Assn. del Valle. San Francisco, Fresno, San Diego, Victorville, Selma, Salinas, Bakersfield and San Jose all “have serious problems with police brutality against Chicanos,” a member of the network said.