The State - News from Sept. 21, 1988

San Francisco’s criminal grand jury will investigate police crowd-control procedures at a demonstration that led to the serious injury of United Farm Workers union leader Dolores Huerta, Dist. Atty. Arlo Smith said. Smith asked the foreman of the panel to investigate whether criminal charges should be filed as “the best way to clear up any questions.” Huerta, suffered a ruptured spleen and two broken ribs in the demonstration in which police shoved a group of protesters from the front of the St. Francis hotel where presidential candidate George Bush was speaking at a fund-raiser. Bush opposes the UFW’s boycott of table grapes. The police, the city Office of Citizen’s Complaints and the farm workers’ union are all conducting independent investigations.