To do whatever it takes, to maintain order on the streets. When faced with Latinos in the thousands marching through the streets. It can be a police officer worst nightmare. What was once a peaceful protest, inspired by the Black Panthers, can turn into a all out suburban war. As Castañeda, Oscar Rosales, talks about in The Chicano Movement in Washington State 1967-2006 , that police have been known to arrive to this protests in almost military like outfits and begin beating people down and arresting people for non justifiable reasons. This was a tactic quite commonly enforced by the police to maintain order among the Latino community. This legal violence was one of the many ways that they use to make sure that the Latino community stays in their social class and keep their heads down. They were targeted and hunted as dogs in the gram scheme of the white supremacists. These people of color, Latinos, was a futile, slave like workers that were insignificant to the white rulers that ran this farming businesses.This was not going to stop the Chicano Movement though as they persisted in keep protesting. They kept pushing forward not letting the white men in uniforms hold them back. They wanted to show them that the Chicano Movement was there and they were turning
To do whatever it takes, to maintain order on the streets. When faced with Latinos in the thousands marching through the streets. It can be a police officer worst nightmare. What was once a peaceful protest, inspired by the Black Panthers, can turn into a all out suburban war. As Castañeda, Oscar Rosales, talks about in The Chicano Movement in Washington State 1967-2006 , that police have been known to arrive to this protests in almost military like outfits and begin beating people down and arresting people for non justifiable reasons. This was a tactic quite commonly enforced by the police to maintain order among the Latino community. This legal violence was one of the many ways that they use to make sure that the Latino community stays in their social class and keep their heads down. They were targeted and hunted as dogs in the gram scheme of the white supremacists. These people of color, Latinos, was a futile, slave like workers that were insignificant to the white rulers that ran this farming businesses.This was not going to stop the Chicano Movement though as they persisted in keep protesting. They kept pushing forward not letting the white men in uniforms hold them back. They wanted to show them that the Chicano Movement was there and they were turning