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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 17 LA: doing here or we're gonna run you in or they never done that to me, of course I don't know they might have done it to . somebody else. But they never found me staggering or laying in the middle of the street, if a man lies down in the street, then the law's got the right to come and pick me up and put me in the place where •... for my own self-protection because a car run over me, I'm laying down in the street, a car run over me why that's it. And I don't see anything wrong with that doing the law. Now, for instance, at some demonstrations they might be right, I don't say they not but they don't have to destruct. Now for instance, that's what you got your five senses of your life, your hearing, your smelling, your seeing, your ears, I mean your mouth, to speak, what you wanna do. But if instead of speak, get a rock and throw it to one building, the building hasn't got no fault because you're sore, no, and tha fs when the law comes in and then they say the law mistreated them. You ought to see what happened this little incident happened in Mexico. Bunch of demonstrators went the same way over there, students from the University, big boys and I tell you some people claim they're wrong but I think they're right. The lawmen took a bunch of soldiers and they didn't ask questions they just put the machine gun and now about fifteen or twenty of them,