Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIffi{: Louis Amador Page 16 LA: right now has better rights than the white people. Far better rights and yet they still crying about brutality, the policeman hit me, the law is the law and no matter what you do, if you wreck the law you expect to pay for what you do. I don't side with the law but yet I give the law the right. For instance you can't go up here in the street and try to throw rocks at somebody the law comes on is got a right to apprehend me, the best of the knowledge even if they have to rope me like in steel that's the only way I asked for it. FO: Tell me about the matter of the police and the Mexican community here. Do you feel that the police, is there a different view now than there was when you first came here or do the people in the Spanish speaking community feel differently about the police than you suppose the rest of us might? LA: Well, I'll tell you, some of us have one way to think about it and some of us have another one. Just what I was talking now previous to these. If you break the law the law is entitled to, you know, go through it's course. Hany of times I wonder especially when I was single and my mother was there, I kicked the bottle right and left, I'm not ashamed to say it, because that was the truth. But the policeman meet me and want to grab my arm, 'what you doing, I'm going home, okay.' They never stop me or mistreat me or tell me, hey what are you