Title: Voices: Remembering the Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar
Headings: Voices: Remembering the Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar
Voices: Remembering the Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar
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Content: There were all sorts of people there, from children to senior citizens, even a wedding party. The march wound its way through East L.A., and then ended with a rally in a park. As he told it, my father was under the shade of a tree, listening to the speeches. All of a sudden he heard a pop-pop-pop sound and the crowd began to disperse in panic. I gotta get out of here, my dad thought. He darted down an alley, where he was confronted by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officers charging at him with guns drawn. Reversing course, my father ran around the corner, only to be blocked by more officers wielding tear gas. As the largely peaceful gathering degenerated into a melee, my father made a break through a side street and walked home. He was so shell-shocked that he forgot he had driven to work. As a kid, this was the most memorable part of the story: