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Their chest like this. bandoliers of ammo, obviously. >> and a radio transmission comes out for the team to deploy tear gas. >> be advised, we're deploying gas now. >> one round goes into the side lapd did notire rs we fired the tear gas round. that was to cause them to surrender. then the gunfire erupted. [ sound of gunfire ] >> it was amazing. it basically scared the hell out of me and i dropped to the ground. i mean, i tried to dig a hole in the cement. the guys that were out in front thought that i was hit. i get up on my knee and put my thumb up saying i'm okay. >> swear to god on my gran...

The reporters on the staff of knxt in los angeles. we used to call ourselves cbs channel 2 news. >> the morning of may 17th, i just crews into the station and i usually get in between 7:30 and 8:00, some time like that. when mel's sporting goods happened and the shootout happened with patty hearst, we figured the sla is in l.a. i got on the story that morning. we got the sense that the lapd was going to get these guys. they had a reputation of cracking heads, and, unfortunately, not all but some of the heads deserved cracking. they were using this new unit called s.w.a.t., and they had up to t...