In light of the latest incident of police brutality committed against Navajos in Farmington, we can see that nothing has really changed since the 1945 police beating death of former Navajo tribal chairman Deshna Clah Cheschillige and the 2006 police shooting death of Clint John. I, myself, was caught up in the famous police riot in downtown Farmington during the long hot summer of 1974–in which my life was directly threatened by a member of Farmington's finest. The following is a personal statement that I was asked to write by my attorney at the time about that particular incident, and a more recent postscript.