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Showing Original Post only (View all)When Dolores Huerta suffered broken ribs and ruptured spleen during the 1988 election campaign [View all]
from being beaten by police batons:
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http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-16/news/mn-2389_1_police-chief
Labor leaders and top city officials are demanding an investigation into police conduct at a protest in which United Farm Workers Vice President Dolores Huerta suffered two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen.
Huerta was injured Wednesday night when police forced demonstrators away from a hotel where Vice President George Bush was holding a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser, officials said Thursday.
Huerta, 58, a slight woman who is just over 5 feet tall, was in stable condition at San Francisco General Hospital after surgery to remove her spleen. Family members and UFW spokesmen said the injuries were caused by a baton-wielding police officer outside the St. Francis Hotel.
Mayor Art Agnos, a friend and political ally of Huerta's for the last 20 years, declared that he "will not tolerate" misuse of police authority here. Agnos, who visited Huerta in the hospital, spoke with UFW President Cesar Chavez to assure him that the city will investigate fully. ".... (more at link)
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I have to think that a Democratic caucus in 2016 was the last place Huerta expected to be shouted down and have to witness ham-handed disenfranchisement of Spanish-speaking voters by Bernie Sanders supporters.