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the not guilty verdict against all six defendants in the now famous low set. A murder trial came Saturday evening. Yet all six still are in jail here at the Hall of Justice because of legal technicalities and because of lesser charges pending against them. But the big

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ordeal is over. They know that they will be released on bail shortly. Their emotions now a mixture, Joy and bitterness were there times in the last year and a half when you felt in your own mind that there was no way that you could escape the

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gas chamber. Well, E, I always tended to expect the worst because, you know, if I would have got my hopes up too high, you know when things would have went reverse, you know, I really would have felt shot down, you know? So I more likely a

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pessimistic, you know, before way were arrested. All I had my my doubts about the system, you know, But the government and the way our people are treated by, uh, just this instant had just convinced me more or the great struggle there is ahead of us. I

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want people, you know, when the police Department picks up six minutes and you and really changes their lives and the worst kind of way. No kind of justice being done. It just makes me Seymour. You know what's ahead of us on how much you know harder.

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We have to fight. All except Gary Less Colette were in the San Francisco City prison. Let's call it is in the county jail. All six are being held for San Mateo and Santa Cruz County authorities on minor charges. Their attorneys say that they expect all to

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be released on bail before another sun sets way. Heard that they had They had a verdict. I was real nervous, you know? I was sweating, you know, uh, you know, I couldn't think straight, but when, uh, they started reading off, they started off with Jose Rios.

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Verdict. You know, then I knew, you know that. You know, it wasn't gonna be bad after all, You know, And, uh, when they just came out with the massive acquittal on, you know, the first and the attempted murder. You know, I just felt beautiful. Jose, are

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you bitter? Yes, I am. Can you express it? Well, you know, the way I see it. I mean, I guess there's not much you can do about it now, But, you know, I just look back, you know, like how these people are at our age were

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17, 18 years old and they picked six was up. Seven of us. No one is still running for his life. And they completely changed our lives. Yeah, there's no words that cannot They can say the the amount of suffering that they have cost of our people.

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You know, simple. Sorry is not going to get all that back. Yeah, I'm bitter. The victory that we have gained, you know, he has has given them a stable point, a rallying point for our people. You know what I'm very proud to say? You know that

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the rise of the brown people in this country have probably been never been protected, you know, and so vigorously protected, you know, as except in this case, you know, probably they were. They were vigorously protected in in a new Mexico with Serena, you know, beside outside

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of New Mexico. I think you know this case, you know, have some. That's that's why it has such great importance, you know, because of this case. Do you think you'll ever be able to lead a normal life again? Well, I don't think so. Turned around and

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looked at my people, You know, everything. We just seemed beautiful. You know what you gonna do now when you get up plan? So I spent a lot of time with my family. My people, you know, go back to school, if possible, work in the community. Do

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you think this experience has changed you a great deal? Yes. In what way? Well, it showed me a lot of things that even though, you know, you get messed around in the streets a lot, you know, there is a way of combat, you know, coming back

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and trying to straighten up the mess that is in the community. And just being here is only one incident that may have happened in the last a couple of months or something with this. You know, it's just it's a way, you know, It's like a new

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way of making something now for what we did. You know, someone else could, you know, if they get railroaded, you know they can fighting and come out with something good out of it. What do you think this case means? What? What is the importance of this

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case? That this acquittal? What is it going to mean to you? What is it going to mean to the community? Well, to me, it just It means that, you know, I had a got a break and that the community means political power. A lot of people

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have, you know, had a different view about everything. You know, like us. We're just cop killers. Now. They see that their way were found innocent. Uh, they'll see that we're not the only one that makes mistakes. The police is also makes me make mistakes to the

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lawyers. And, you know, I had a lot of confidence in their intelligence and their ability toe fight for us in the court. We're gonna get out. I'm not guilty. Not guilty verdict. But, uh, you know what I felt in my heart after I e heard the

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verdicts. You know, I just felt a great big load dropping off my back and that I would once again be free