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Medrano / Police Brutality and Tri-Ethnic Coalition

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Interviewer-"There is still a lot about Dallas Brown Berets that.." Mr. Medrano-[?], Interviewer-Yea, but even if you look at history books kind of mentioned here and there and I'm kind of confused on timelines and other people are too, um, so there was July 28th 1973 there was a riot downtown, do you remember that? Mr. Medrano-Yes, I remember, Interviewer-"Were you there? Mr. Medrano-Yea, Interviewer-Ok, well can you tell me about it? Mr. Medrano-Well, at that time [?], well, you know, we already know about police brutality, so its not the first time prior to that one, the officer that actually murdured [?] running away from the grocery store, shopping in the back

Interview Interview with Robert Medrano
Subjects Housing › Neighborhoods › Residential Segregation
Housing › Public Housing
Race Relations › Black-Brown Race Relations
Race Relations › Race Relations with Other Ethnicities
Police and Law Enforcement › Police Brutality
Police and Law Enforcement › Community Relations and Law Enforcement
Black Power › Black Panthers
Chicano Power › Brown Berets
Tags Dallas Police Department
Lipscomb, Al
Bois d'Arc Patriots
Polk, Ed
Rodriguez, Santos
Young, Charlie
Cain, Darrell
Morehead, Michael
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Interview date 2015-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Medrano, Robert
Interviewers Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Locations Dallas, TX
Duration 00:04:26
Citation "Police Brutality and Tri-Ethnic Coalition," from Robert Medrano oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola,  June 10, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/254/police-brutality-and-tri-ethnic-coalition, accessed October 18, 2025