the shotgun would hold like five or six rounds. so i thought it would be a good idea to get her this shotgun bandolier where she could hold about 25 rounds. then all of a sudden i got paranoid. i was nervous about buying the bandolier. it was a combat bandolier and i was nervous about buying it. and i set it back down. everything was smooth and we were getting ready to leave. we pay $40. and as i m walking out the door, this young black guy comes up behind me and yells, hey, bill. and i believed to my very fibers he was referring to me. and my heart starts racing. i turn around and he says, sir, i need you to come back inside. i need to search you. turns out his boss is a guy named bill hewitt, i think. so he s calling his boss to back him up. he saw me with the bandolier and he didn t see me put the bandolier back on the shelf. i ain t going back in the store. no way.
and this would be a greater pig justification to continue that harassment and disarming of the people. we realized that we just had to get the hell out of there. that was not a cool place to be. patricia was encouraged to reconsider going home. she already robbed a bank and burned a number of bridges with that. it wasn t impossible for her to wiggle out of that one. you might survive it. it might be better for us to not have you with us. she hated that idea. we couldn t go on living as nine people in a cell. the only way to really do it is do it in group of threes. i hope it would be me and angelo to do it together but it didn t work out. in the end, emily and i got stuck with patricia. i think it was defreeze, angela and camilla and nancy, willy and ms. moon. so we went to l.a. defreeze was familiar with it. he lived there. none of the rest of us had ever lived there.
way. in 1974 i was 18 years old. i was a senior in high school. i had a ford econoline van for sale. 7:00 thursday night, the door knock on my front door and it was a woman wanting to test drive my van. i said, sure. i just tossed her the keys. i got in the passenger seat. we just drove one block and turned right, and then she stopped. and she said, can my friends come along. all i notice was william harris getting out of the car, because as he got out, there was something bulging out of his jacket. and opened up his coat, and sure enough he had a machine gun. said they were with the sla and they needed to borrow my van. as soon as he said sla, i knew who they were. patty got in the van behind william harris. and he pointed to her and said do you know who this is? i shook my head no. i didn t recognize her. she had a black curly wig on. he said this is tania, and he kind of smiled.
at least 150 of those officers were deployed around the perimeter of that location. a patrol perimeter unit was approached by an elderly lady. the woman said are you looking for those white folks with guns. and they said, yes. she said, they are in my daughter-in-law s house. she said it s five houses from the corner. i was approaching the fourth house and as i got to the front door, i heard a voice. the voice was that i believe to be right up against the house. i was right up against the house. he was ordering people to do things inside of the house to move the furniture, to barricade the front door. i immediately contacted the team at the rear. i said the fourth house is the suspect s house. that ironed it for us. we knew we were at the right place. so we deployed right away. we would have not done it that way originally.
disgraced and manipulated and coerced. in a theatrical, cruel way. patricia s performance in that bank robbery only solidified what we already suspected about her, somewhat of a revolutionary we kidnapped a freak. people freeze in certain situations. patricia hearst is not the kind of person that freezes ever. i think she was spectacular, and i think it was obvious. it was obvious to us. everybody had a side arm, and her performing admirably in a bank robbery gets her the gun that was originally the side arm of the security guard at the bank. now she has a side arm as well. patricia was 100% equal member in this cell. she had the same responsibilities we did. we weren t making her do anything against her will. at that point it was against her will to go home.