The State - News from July 26, 1988

A Latino leader called on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors to seek a grand jury investigation into an alleged beating of five Mexican nationals by sheriff’s deputies in Victorville on June 30. The request was one of a host of recommendations by Armando Navarro, president of the Congress for United Communities, aimed at ending what he called a “history of police brutality” in the county. “This no longer is an issue of Hispanics versus the Sheriff’s Department,” he told the board, “it is an issue involving all people: black, white and brown.” Last week, Sheriff Floyd Tidwell announced that an internal investigation of the incident, which was videotaped by an unidentified witness, had cleared his deputies of any misconduct.