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Marta Rodriguez, a seventeen year old farm worker, is assaulted, handcuffed, arrested after the Kern County Sheriff Department breaks up a picket line at the Giumarra Ranch, 1973. Rodriguez spoke little English, and did not understand the deputies' commands. Nearly 130 picketers were arrested during this incident, many sustaining injuries.