Medrano / Local Issues
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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 |