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Interviewer-"With statewide meetings, were you guys ever in fear of getting [?] by the police?" Mr. Medrano-Oh no,no,no we were always advised to were not going to be [?] late at night, daylight you could be witnessed, sniped you know the [?] they're always very cautious, always very cautious, were going to make it, were going to make it to 3 or 4:00 after that, we knew, we feared that we could get hurt easily, easily to be based on things we heard, what had happened so this and get apprehended, get in a SWAT car and [?]. So, the best thing is daylight, daylight, daylight and immediate helping us out, "Can you please help us out. Show them that we didn't do nothing wrong, show that when they would be beating us up, that would be [?] as a result, we didn't [?]. We're supposed to get hurt, but in the long line, wer're prevail based on documenting integrity [?]. So, fear, we never feared [?] Even when they went to the school board for the name change [?] of course with anticipation something would happen, [?] so we're not here to disrupt anything, we're here to ask what we want, thats all. We want the school name to be changed and justification, what does it hurt you to name it when this kid who [?] role model, that want to mentor somebody, this is the thing that name changes were [?].....

Interview Interview with Robert Medrano
Subjects Police and Law Enforcement
Police and Law Enforcement › Police Brutality
Police and Law Enforcement › Community Relations and Law Enforcement
Media › Mainstream Media
Media › Supportive Journalists and Editors
Chicano Power › Brown Berets
Police and Law Enforcement › Informants
Police and Law Enforcement › Federal Law Enforcement
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Interview date 2015-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Medrano, Robert
Interviewers Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Locations Dallas, Texas
Duration 00:02:00
Citation "Local Issues," 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/860/local-issues, accessed December 08, 2025