Los Pinche Rinches – The Starr County Farm Workers Strike, 1960s.
To many Latinos in South Texas, Allee did little to dispel their fear and mistrust of the Rangers. José Ángel Gutiérrez recalled the captain’s confronting—and allegedly shoving—the Hispanic mayor of Crystal City at a rowdy city council meeting. “[Allee] tells him, ‘You goddamn Mexican. Tell these goddamn Mexicans to shut up,” Gutiérrez said. “Something made Allee hate Mexicans.”
Rangers attempted to arrest Dimas for brandishing a gun, but they had no grounds for a warrant. Instead, they tailed other union supporters to a house where Dimas was, called a justice of the peace to fill out warrant forms so they could enter, arrested Dimas and another union member, and beat Dimas so brutally that “his spine was curved out of shape” (see SCOTUS excerpt below). Allee claimed Dimas had tripped during the arrest
Los Pinche Rinches – We Can not forget, nor should We
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