Armed Bank Robbery Goes Wrong (understatement) - The Norco Shootout (1980)

May 9th 1980 - five armed robbers storm the Security Pacific Bank in Norco, California. Armed to the teeth and willing to get into it with any police they encountered, it became one of the fiercest firefights in US history....
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[@Revoknight99]

This also reminds me of the 1997 los angeles bank robbery shootout where it's just 2 guys robbing a bank basically turned into a warzone as well

[@davejones9469]

I think this one is way more interesting. The Hollywood bank robbers you're talking about was indeed crazy, but it was all on one block basically. These guys drove 40 miles while having fired 1000 rounds from semi auto rifles, grenades and molotov cocktails. This was way more GTA than the Hollywood shootout lol.

[@MitchJohnson0110]

Ah yes, the North Hollywood Shootout

[@alitlweird]

Been to that B of A. Withdrew cash from the ATM to have a receipt with that branch’s now iconic address… it wasn’t on the ATM receipt. Very disappointed.

[@RedBud315]

@@davejones9469 For the North Hollywood robbery the police went to B&B guns to get bigger guns and ammo. That's where I used to get mine. They got in trouble with the law for letting the police take the guns.

[@fredparkinson1289]

@@davejones9469 Yeah but the North Hollywood shootout has better video.

[@Truckngirl]

But did Southern California law enforcement learn their lesson from this? NOOOOOOO! The North Hollywood Shootout happened in 1997, with Los Angeles Police Department so outgunned that they went to a neighborhood firearms store to get better weapons! But now, you'd best believe they have some real guns just in case!

[@arnoldhenry]

Don't blame the LAPD, blame the Los Angeles City Council for not buying the equipment they need. The council controls the police budget. At that time of the North Hollywood Shootout, only SWAT teams had the automatic rifles. The patrol officers only had their sidearms and shotguns, which did little to two bank robbers who were on drugs, wearing full body armor, and firing rifles which illegally made into full-auto.

[@lolatmyage]

"The police should fear the citizens"

[@Truckngirl]

@@arnoldhenry No it was Michael Moore's fault. He was the worst Chief of Police LA ever had. Even worse than Daryl Gates.

[@Truckngirl]

@@lolatmyage Yeah that sounds about right. You an AnCap or something?

[@lolatmyage]

@@Truckngirl Who knows, I need more guns...

[@bikeny]

You're getting a sub from me for 2 reasons: 1. You told a story in such a way that I wanted to keep watching til the end. 2. You didn't ruin the video with music. I hope that your other videos are also quiet in that respect.

[@theravenseye9443]

Thanks for the sub!

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

They created their own apocalypse.

[@al3440]

True dat

[@finalascent]

They saw the movie Apocalypse NOW a few months prior and took it a bit too literally...

[@Hobbsdad]

7:53 " it seems that surrendering at this point was seemingly not an option for the gang" Best line in the video

[@sjames304]

Rumor has it the Uvalde police were called but are apparently still waiting for confirmation...........to this very day.

[@Imperium83]

What a weird joke to make.

[@bjrnterjesen651]

😂😂😂

[@robloonlakewa895]

That was a stupid comment shut up

[@sykrss9534]

Sad cause that’s probly one of the few places in texas that would have responded like that, most of them would have a swift deadly response with their 2 or 4 man swat element mixed in with regular officers

[@HighlanderNorth1]

​@@Imperium83 ❓ Why is it weird to use ironic humor to expose the actions of a large group of obvious cowards who refused to do their jobs to protect their community? It's also an opportunity to point out how just a few BRAVE police officers were recently successful in moving right into active shooter situations and quickly taking out the shooters, so that they COULDN'T just sit back and kill lots of children at their leisure. That's the opposite of what happened in Uvalde, when a bunch of COWARDLY Uvalde police officers chose to stand around doing nothing for almost an hour as a single kid took his time killing a bunch of school kids. That cowardliness SHOULD be called out often.

[@malcolmcook6268]

I love The Raven's wonderful droll, tongue in cheek narration of this amazing incident. Well worth watching for that alone.

[@eadweard.]

I didn't pick up on any of that.

[@malcolmcook6268]

@@eadweard. Really? It was the first thing about this video that struck me.

[@TriviaFreak]

@@eadweard. What about when he describes the '60s as "a groovy, all-night party" and the '70s as "the bad hangover the next morning"? Both similies are accurate, *AND* hilariously delivered in that deadpan tone of world-weary cynicism. Which just fits.

[@malcolmcook6268]

@@TriviaFreak Spot on.Excellent delivery.

[@dougdeepdown]

I think he might be from The Midlands...UK. Sounds very familiar to me? Raven?

[@Jammo1978]

All that carnage for $20,000 that they never even got, what a bunch of tossers and a waste of life 😒 RIP TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES 😢 🙏 🕊 ☮

[@initial_C]

My dad was a Riverside County deputy during this time and went to the academy with one of the officers killed. I think my dad was lucky enough to not have had to have responded to the incident but he recalled a LOT of details about it. Marge in Fargo has the perfect quote that suits it. "And for what? For a little bit of money." Also just a few (completely extraneous) notes on the police weapons: The .38 pictured is a Colt Official Police and the Riverside Sheriff's office at the time issued Smith and Wesson Model 10 or 15; also, they weren't issued 15 round semi autos following the shootout (a few high capacity 9mms did exist at the time, but didn't really take off until after the FBI Miami shootout) but Sig Sauer P220s (7+1 capacity) in .45 ACP. Thankfully, my dad was able to retire in the early 2000s. He never fired his weapon once in the line of duty.

[@oldcop18]

Your dad was lucky. I retired in ‘97, but not before three officer involved shootings & losing seven of my friends/colleagues over the course of my 30 years. Hope he’s doing well in retirement. I’m enjoying mine for sure.

[@initial_C]

@@oldcop18 He's doing well, very healthy for his age and enjoying peace, quiet, and motorcycle tours.

[@swampd1966]

Unfortunately I think there are A LOT of cops, deputies, state troopers and patrolmen that are anxious and excited to use their weapons. I’ve had at least 3 interactions with cops where I walked away thinking “That man literally can’t wait to shoot somebody” Frankly, it’s too easy to become an entry-level officer and it always has been. It needs to be a whole lot tougher to qualify for a government issued, weapon, badge, and the powers of arrest. If that seems unreasonable, please know that I’m well aware of how difficult it is recruit, develop, and train quality people. The answer is simple. Make the job more attractive with A LOT MORE FUCKING MONEY. I recently finished onboarding for a job as Resident Aide at a large homeless shelter. One of the people in training with me was an exceedingly bright, and idealistic young woman who had just left her job as a county sheriffs deputy, after only 18 months on the job. She worked primarily as a CO at the county jail, but was fully qualified to work in the community doing police work. All the training she went through to become a law enforcement officer and she quit to become a case manager at a homeless shelter. She told me it was a pretty easy decision for her. The pay simply didn’t match the work as a deputy.

[@MrRolyat98]

While we are pointing out extraneous stuff, I don’t believe any of the weapons used by the criminals had an EOTECH holographic sight. They hadn’t been invented until about 20 years later

[@banyakolemulenga7072]

God has a way with things...no matter what hell exists some will be preserved to tell the tale. It's not luck it's the way of things. See the hell in nazi gas camps but some lived through it all and told at Nuremburg.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

It's a shame this event isn't as well known as the North Hollywood shootout from 1997. This one was every bit as dramatic and terrfying.

[@skyden24195]

Oddly enough, despite "lessons learned" from this incident, police were again completely outgunned (initially) by only *two* armed robbers in the 1997 N. Hollywood shootout. However, the police in N. Hollywood were able to keep the robbers contained to the immediate area around the bank that had been robbed.

[@jefffoutz4024]

People and police agencies forget their history

[@dezznutz3743]

Thats because those bank robbers had body armor and automatic weapons. Not semi-auto rifles like here.

[@christopherorrante289]

The 1986 miami shootout was another one

[@formerlydistantorigins6972]

Listening to the start of your video, I couldn't help but to think - blimey, we're reliving the 1970s

[@christosvoskresye]

In all the wrong ways, too. About the only thing we're doing better is fashion, which was bizarre in the 1970s. In most other areas, we're doing worse.

[@anthonyrausch5708]

Got to disagree with you there (christosvoskresye) 1: back then you could only get your news from 2 sources: A: NEWSPAPER B: CABLE TV We got “THE WORLD WIDE WEB NOW IN 2023”!!! “THE VAGABON’S CALLED BLM AND ANTIFA CAN NOT HIDE ANYTHING ANYMORE” “THE WOKE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT CAN NOT HIDE ANYTHING ANYMORE” Back in “THE 1970’S” people could get off “SCOT FREE” because “THERE WERE FEWER EYEBALL’S PAYING ATTENTION” right now in 2023 there is a lot more “EYEBALL’S WATCHING” then back then And that is a fact….. “THE WORLD WIDE WEB HAS CHANGED THE GAME” and “for all the negative it bring’s” I am at lest “SOMEWHAT CONTENT” that “RADICAL NATIONAL TERRORIST GROUP’S LIKE BLM AND ANTIFA ARE CALLED OUT ON THERE BULLSHIT ONLINE”!!!! “AND THE SAME GOES FOR THE US GOVERNMENT BEING CALLED OUT AS WELL”!!!! Saint Anthony signing off…

[@teresabenson3385]

​@@christosvoskresye Not at all. I lived through the 70s, today is still not as bad. No jobs available, 17% interest rate on mortgages, way fewer social services, and the sequelae of Nam, violence against protesters, and 3 major assassinations within the previous decade.

[@christosvoskresye]

@@teresabenson3385 Admit it: You just miss the plaid pants.

[@teresabenson3385]

@@christosvoskresye 🤣🤣🤣

[@bahnspotterEU]

Take a look at the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis in Germany in 1988, a multi-day hostage taking that featured some of the most insane interactions between hostage takers and the media, where journalists literally interviewed the criminals in their own car. This means the whole ordeal is very well documented. A movie has also been made about the event. The actions by the media sparked a big debate about the morality of chasing sensational topics and headlines and in which way the journalists were obstructing police intervention.

[@thedaisiesgrow]

And somehow the German police didn’t conclude that they needed tanks and assault weapons. Go figure.

[@bahnspotterEU]

@@thedaisiesgrow Dunno what you mean by “tanks” (a police force definitely doesn’t need what falls under the military picture of a “tank”), but they do have APCs and SMGs and rifles.

[@wyattmann8157]

@@thedaisiesgrow You mean the German police who botched the situation nearly as bad as they did in Munich in 1972? Yes, let's learn from them...😂

[@annnee6818]

And we've still not improved this any in 35 years, marvellous species we are

[@annnee6818]

​@thedaisiesgrow A hostage died in the police shootout, you mean she would have died more efficiently if the police had had a tank? Weird take but ok, yanks aren't known for being bright or subtle...

[@keliciaigbinazaka4538]

Such an insane event! Thanks for covering this Raven I’d never heard of it before. Crazy to think they’d never committed a violent act before they decided to rob the bank

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Which was why they weren't successful? 😐

[@craigusselman546]

These guys its 1980 End of world!! 43 years later its 2023 end of the worrrrld!

[@mattkaustickomments]

I had skipped this ep because I was assuming it was another LA area bank shootout - the North Hollywood BoA one. I don’t know how I missed this one before.

[@JosephKulik2016]

The fact that they never committed a crime before isn't surprising at all. If you'd stop believing in the "evil" Bogey Man that True Crime tries to sell you and just looked at the facts, you'd see that MANY Murders are committed by someone who never previously broke the law. Under the right conditions, Anyone can Commit murder, Even YOU !!!

[@steveelder5306]

@@craigusselman546 I know right? I remember those days and its even worse now. I think this sort of thing is going to be going down again soon.

[@tabbitee]

"Well we don't have any experience robbing banks, but we know exactly how we *think* it'll go!" "Exactly! It'll be the perfect crime!"

[@Plutokta]

Damn... Sounds like the "Heat" shootout but longer.

[@wadewilson8011]

North Hollywood shootout of '97

[@eustacethemonk2176]

That's what I was thinking lol

[@OleJanssen]

This sounds shockingly similar to a typical GTA mission.

[@cosmosrunner2468]

That was excellent! I was a freshman living in LA at the time. I don't remember this but as a young teenager I was deathly afraid of the five or six active serial killers at the time. It was crazy.

[@remogatron1010]

Most serial killers hunt women or gay men. Why were you scared?

[@travelerforever8849]

@@remogatron1010 some choose random victims

[@steveelder5306]

@@remogatron1010 the Bonin Butts Murderers and the Night Stalker were rapin everybody out there!

[@tigerwoods373]

I wondered why California produced so many serial killers in the 60-70s. Zodiac, Manson, coed killer, golden state killer, Ramirez and I'll probably missing a few other big names. Seems weird how California was ground one for it and I always wondered what caused it.

[@Highice007]

This needs to be a movie. Glad that Hugh's 500MD helicopter suffered only minor damage. One of the best helicopters ever made.

[@lolatmyage]

You got that right - it was definitely one of the helicopters ever made

[@Highice007]

@@lolatmyage lol. I must learn to spell check.

[@petercarney5995]

Yeh? BullSHIT!!!

[@M.R.BrickFilms]

@@Highice007there was a TV movie called Rapid Fire released in 2006 that’s loosely base on the shootout, and there were reports in 2015 that a norco shootout movie was in development, with Mark Romanek directing, but no word on filming or when it will be released

[@VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

This really reminds me of the 1986 FBI Miami shootout, in which four people were killed. In that case, too, the police (FBI) were initially outgunned.

[@jcBowley]

Hell of a fall from grace for Manny Delgado. Should've stuck with Modern Family.

[@djohnson9083]

Wow… I was only 12 when this happened but even now, many decades later, I had never heard of it. I only knew Norco was a horse town. Thanks for this video!

[@newshodgepodge6329]

They would have been better off calling in a couple of bomb threats in the area to keep police occupied rather than trying to set off an actual bomb.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

That's a better idea....the simpler the better. Actually they could've called in the bomb threat. As the police are preoccupied with the phony call, set off a grenade further away from both the bank and phony bomb call. That would've really stretched police beyond thin. But they didn't think of that obviously. At a police training event we got a detailed rundown which makes this video very mild and dull compared to the wild craziness of the real events**. IIRC there was a 2nd chopper involved but that one didn't go down. California seems to have all the events that change police tactics and procedures, along with training. It all started when 4 California Highway Patrol were killed in one traffic stop in 1970 or 71. Then Norco. Then OJ Simpson which greatly boosted the importance of forensics training. Then the North Hollywood shootout. But Mexico surpasses the US every week in bullets fired between cartels and government. **Not criticizing as the narrator did a nice job getting in the main points of this massive cluster.

[@GoViking933]

I Thought I knew what the Norco Shootout was.. It appears I had no idea about this crazy thing! Good job on the doc

[@ThePursuitofHappiness1988]

The 70s was definitely the hangover from the 60s.

[@popindosin228]

Fun fact: this happened the same day Sunshine Skyway bridge collapsed in Florida. Hella crazy day that was.

[@Morpheus187]

I have lived in Southern California for 40 years and never heard of this.

[@zetectic7968]

Thanks for this. I seem to recall another channel covering this? I sure in part this was an inspiration for the film "Heat".

[@MrMadbrowncow]

I worked for years with the last surviving Delgado brother who wasn't involved, he was a great guy

[@Kenngo1969]

I suppose this is one of those situations in which it might be hard to believe that, apparently, two vastly different "apples" came from the same "tree," as it were, eh? Warm Regards and Best Wishes, @Kenngo1969

[@yelwing]

I was a teenager at the time, and my dad was a West Covina police officer. Cops from all over the place got involved in this event. My dad told me all about it. I remember him telling about the cop car that got stuck on RR tracks, and other officers getting shot😢. Years later I worked as a Deputy Sheriff for Riverside County which is the agency responsible for Norco. It’s always been a mark of shame that the Sheriff Department never made a training film about this epic event. Other agencies had to.

[@Kenngo1969]

Thank you [both] for your Service, Sir(s). I'm glad your dad lived to tell you about it. Warm Regards and Best Wishes, -@Kenngo1969

[@jcr.593]

Thank you for your service!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲 Be safe!

[@banjojohn1489]

"So we declared open war on the police, which was the style at the time.."

[@briantaylor9285]

All that madness, and they forgot the money...

[@johnknoefler]

I grew up on the other side of some hills in La Sierra, a suburb of Riverside. Just a couple miles from the shootout. I was working at the family business but this is the first I've heard of this. Around this same time my mother-in-law needed to transport her horse to a corral on our side and not having a trailer I offered to ride it across the hills. Basically from a few blocks from the shootout over to La Sierra. Strange I knew nothing about this ridiculously planned robbery. I feel bad for the officers killed and wounded and their families. The perps ruined thier lives. Why not just work, save their money and then buy some land? Criminally stupid.

[@werquantum]

My favorite part was when they crashed in to a telegraph pole. Many may not realize that California wouldn’t have widespread telephone infrastructure until the mid-80s.

[@orangehoof]

I love your dry sense of humor. Very entertaining.

[@lyedavide]

Excellent presentation as usual. If the gang had packed Norco mountain bikes as backup rather than indulging in the oral concoction of the same name, they may have well gotten away. Cheers mate!

[@Hartford1992]

I know these are more well known than NORCO, but I'd love to see you cover the FBI Miami-Dade and North Hollywood Shootouts.

[@remogatron1010]

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[@JoshuaTootell]

This is my home 😂 I rented a home right around the corner. They only recently tore down the abandoned bank. My grandmother still lives in the same home my grandparents bought in the 70's, my mom had barely graduated and created me. Obviously, pretty well known to me.

[@RohanGillett]

So many of these people are the same. They say they are going to fight to the death. Instead, they give up and end up in jail rather than die. They must be feeling pretty stupid in prison knowing the world is still here and not about to end. I wonder how they feel knowing they killed innocent people? These crims were just schmucks.

[@ralphjones6165]

My wife was in the Corona hospital having our first child that day when the ER was receiving the aftermath of this incident. It has always since been part of our daughter's birthday celebrations.

[@KriegZombie]

They couldn't afford a cabin in the woods but they could shell out for half a dozen very expensive firearms? Were they all stolen as well or were they just awful at budgeting?

[@adammetzger4182]

Well they failed at selling weed in the 1970s so they don't sound very smart.

[@tt-ew7rx]

Guns were much cheaper those days. A survival establishment is also much more than a cabin in the woods.

[@KriegZombie]

@@tt-ew7rx Property was also cheaper. Being a prepper myself I can tell you that having an acre or two of secluded and undeveloped land with a simple shack on it is a fantastic starting point. You just have to be willing to put the work in.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

They were clearly piss poor at more than budgeting... from planning to follow-through execution... They sucked hind tits... Sure, guns and ammunition were cheaper (like everything else) in the 80's... BUT there was also a lot more undeveloped land, and less competing demand for developing it. Even with the regularity at which cults cropped up and "found" compounds to take up as high security residences, it was a lot easier to accomplish than these idiots made it out to be... and guns were not THAT much cheaper... largely in line with inflation numbers. They FAILED to make their money at selling pot. That right there should tell you all you really needed to know about their "skills" and "self motivation". Pot (in my experience) sells itself... It looks like their only thought in the "planning" stage was "more is always better"... SO they decided they needed more money than the g** d*** fortune they'd already sunk into weapons and ammo. They needed more firepower than the one bomb they couldn't even get built right enough to go off for their diversion... AND they needed to throw more firepower around than ANYBODY else in the bank-robbing business... There was no skill nor finesse put into this... largely from a complete refusal to even research what the hell they were doing. Most robbers of the 80's and 90's would tell you that firepower is NOT the answer you want to use. The guns are largely there to frighten most people into submission so you DO NOT have to shoot anyone or anything. At worst, you should discharge a handful (3 to 12) rounds in the first few seconds, just enough to prove to any "wannabe heroes" that you ARE willing and capable of killing everyone in the place. The guards and tellers aren't paid enough to die for the contents of the vault... or the cash drawers. Customers also already know their accounts are insured up to 250,000, so they don't tend to want to make a fuss, either... A smart, coordinated team can be in and out easily in under 2 minutes, and almost nobody sticks around for 3 minutes unless they're completely noob's AND useless as tits on a bore hog. Most criminals of the day were also highly reluctant to shoot police. Everyone knew that wherever you get one cop dead, you'll have 10,000 cops in less than 12 hours, combing the area for "the son of a bitch who done it"... The public had a much higher regard for police in general, too... BUT rather than think of any such a thing, and rather than put together a short-term to long-term set of goals and strategies to achieve them, these guys were just chock full of TV-wonderland, and decided they could go shoot up a bank and raise enough hell to walk away with a million or two easily. That's NOT a legitimate decision-making paradigm. Real bank-jobs take casing the location, learning schedules, and REAL planning... SO these guys just sucked hind tits at about everything they were doing. I have to guess that they only took up the desperation because they ALSO sucked hind tits at being decent, work-a-day citizens and making ends meet, too. It would explain their self-assurance that the world was about to end. ;o)

[@tt-ew7rx]

@@KriegZombie I am speculating here: they had put all their initial investment into armaments (which according to them were an essential part of the apocalypse preparation) and decided to make use of this initial investment a tool for the acquisition of further funds. This is at least logical. If they had gone for the real estate first it probably could not have been used for generating further funding, not as easily. They quite easily got 20k before bad luck got them. After all, if 7 bank heists happen every day this was a sort of routine operation.

[@douglasmcneil8413]

I grew up in Corona, just down the road and had friends that lived in Norco. In 78 and 79 I had a student aide job at the Norco Navy base. I remember how that shootout affected the whole community.

[@jennyz356]

Sounds like a real life GTA mission

[@lolatmyage]

It's undeniable that all this wild west stuff from the 70s, 80s and 90s was all inspiration for the GTA series

[@iainmalcolm9583]

Thank goodness America solved its gun problems from the past.

[@davidpawson7393]

Not solved at all. Honest people in many places can't own one.

[@gregtennessee8249]

​@@davidpawson7393 honest people are committing Daily Mass Shootings...

[@McIntyreBible]

9:39, that an irony: they left behind the money they stole!!

[@AiMR]

How do you fail at selling pot?

[@davidpawson7393]

I know right. Oh yeah, you smoke it. Don't get high on your own supply.

[@AiMR]

@@davidpawson7393 Because pot smokers are incapable of selling pot 👍

[@rocketamadeus3730]

Probably had the shittiest pot in the world and were just like "money plz."

[@gregtennessee8249]

​@@AiMR it's legal today

[@EnoVarma]

Six banks every day?!

[@davidpawson7393]

Yep.

[@puzzledotgamer5461]

Damn that shotgun to the driver was brutal he survived but was fully paralyzed instantly? imagine just losing control of your body fully aware of it

[@kirkmiller7673]

Chris and Russell both are my great uncle. This happened before I was born. But I remember my mom getting letters from them both. Their sister is my grandmother. Thoughts and prayers to all those that it affected.

[@glenngarvey7283]

I really wanted to watch this but I couldn't stand the narrator...his voice was like finger nails on a chalk board!!

[@barbaralamson7450]

Wow. For me, you ended this brilliantly. The dreaded apocalypse had yet to happen. Love your channel.

[@donaldduck3078]

You sure about that 😂

[@RSF-DiscoveryTime]

RE: "The dreaded apocalypse had yet to happen." Good Point. Rosanne Barr wasn't on TV yet.

[@antonleimbach648]

Your a excellent storyteller. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

You're* an* excellent storyteller ...

[@tonysaldzna2226]

Great job. I live 20 minutes away being 17 at tthe time i remember little about this. This video brought it back to remembrance.

[@richardsanchez5444]

12:47 magazine, not clip

[@FinnishLapphund]

I don't just feel sorry for the families of the police officers, it can't have been easy for the parents of the Delgado brothers. Two sons dead, but after being involved in something that killed police officers, so mourning their sons is basically to mourn cop killers.

[@MM22966]

Weird reverse-Rambo moment - the cop is the former Green Beret, and he gets killed by the guys running into the woods. RIP Deputy Evans.

[@crazy4dariver]

By 1985 I was a Police Officer. We had a Security Pacific branch that held the nickname of "stop and rob" Genius robbers!!! There was a freeway exit directly behind it. The nearest on-ramp was 1/4 mile away. Not a single one was successful as officers cut the path to the on-ramp off and the rest went to the bank. First to arrive, don't let them get to the freeway.

[@matthewpaul6904]

The officer hit reverse to evade gunfire. Ah, the Sgt Powell method.

[@BennyLlama39]

Too bad he didn't use the Danny-Glover-in-Predator-2 method and charge the bank robbers. He probably would've died, but it might've surprised 'em long enough to take out at least one early on.

[@51Dss]

I do not understand how or why the criminals did not get the death sentence they deserved.

[@rustysteed8414]

California!

[@reynard61]

In 1972, the SCOTUS ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. (Furman v. Georgia) In 1976, the court partially reversed that ruling but narrowed the circumstances in which the death penalty could be applied. (Gregg v. Georgia) Maybe the prosecution felt that they didn't have a good case for it at the time? 🤔

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

Nobody deserves the death penalty. Because death penalty is the ritual killing of a human being, fulfilling all criteria in the definition of premaditated murder. Igt should not exist in any civilized society as it is pure schizophrenia to declare a deed illegal but punish it with the very same deed.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

@@rustysteed8414 California still has the death penalty.

[@user-SaputroYono]

U. s. a

[@plywoodcarjohnson5412]

Miserable, event, but great upload, thx.

[@6210195221089]

Excellent video - well done - I always look forward to your videos - keep it up 👍🏼

[@Gamble661]

I don't know about your take on the 70's....I went to high school and college in that decade and I had a hell of a good time! As for the perps, it being California I was shocked to hear that they're still incarcerated.

[@surferdad937]

I was 16 years old and living in Norco at the time. I remember driving down to 4th and Sierra Ave with my sister to get a look at the scene shortly after it happened. In fact, I still live in Norco today!

[@WillSmithAnarchy]

why did these guys not walk in? if they walked in when they were firing and they had an eye on where each round struck they could have dialed in on him even though he was armed with a shotti , there's two guys, obviously get him pinned down and walk it in on him.

[@pzuliomaccavellion9711]

You had me at the harsh, yet realistic indictment of late sixties free love! Nice video! Cheers! New subscriber!

[@bryce2284]

By any chance is it possible for you to cover the 1945 Empire State Building B-25 plane crash 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@johngalt2506]

There used to be a large shooting range at Lytle Creek. Been there many times. The terrain is very rugged in that area.

[@workingguy6666]

Just because the individuals of the group had not been caught before is no indication that they had no history of violence. Their pictures before the event certainly don't paint them as upstanding hard-working citizens.

[@tedsmith6137]

43 years later and no one been willing, or able, to make the mess any better. The USA is sinking into the morass of 3rd world life.

[@carlmontney7916]

If you combine what happened here with the infamous 1986 FBI Miami shootout you can see that the '80s were not a very good time for law enforcement. Let's just say they had a lot steeper learning curve playing catch up after these two incidents.

[@thomasmeyer6407]

This reminds me of a late 80s TV movie that was called: In The Line Of Duty, the FBI Murders *It starred the actor who played Bert in the tremors movies franchise* Anyways eerily similar to this story in a lot of aspects. Has anyone else ever heard of or seen this movie?

[@teresabenson3385]

Yes! One of the actors was the dad from the sitcom Family Ties, I was so shocked to see him playing an evil villain.

[@thomasmeyer6407]

@@teresabenson3385 I also believe that the actor who played Dick Jones in the original RoboCop plays the senior captain of the FBI unit.

[@markbishop1588]

The FBI murders.Michael Gross+David Soul played the bank robbers.Matix+Platt.Ronny Cox+Doug Sheehan were also in it.

[@shawnmiller4781]

@@thomasmeyer6407 Ronnie Cox

[@Reilly-Maresca]

Im pretty sure that's about the 1985 Miami-Dade shootout.

[@LassieFarm]

Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded, before long the little guy was surrounded. He was only 17 in a madman's dream, the cops shot him down, I can still hear him scream

[@pantherplatform]

Aka the Vicodin shootout

[@josephsmith6777]

In my area bank robbery was a civic exercise with the entire neighborhood getting involved in one way or another stolen switch cars ending up on fire quite a bit in the 70s 80s and 90s Boston was a craxy place back then

[@candicebergstrom4490]

Crazy! As an American, I'm surprised that I didn't know about this until now. Thanks for sharing this case with us!

[@tommymitchell2306]

Boy, these were real cops back then, armed with 38's and shotguns they engaged these heavily armed suspects! No way cops today, who are now well armed, would have done this!

[@MemoWardwell]

An Englishman reading American news??

[@sting1430]

For a moment I thought he was talking about things happening today

[@dlpannebakker]

No such thing as a civilian, military grade long gun. AKA, rifle. These weapons use magazines, not clips. If a smart officer is present armed with only a pistol or. Shotgun, he or she is not out gunned, as long as they have enough ammo. 38’s are not a good round. .357 magnum oh yes, 44 yes yes yes but one hell of a lift or kick. 9mm eh okay, 40S&W much better 10mm a super killer pistol, 45 ok round. Hollow points only people use only hollow points.

[@peterjohnson617]

Please, just get on with the story.....@ 1.00 the dude should be locked up for walking around in those pants in public ! enough,it`s only 1.13 & I am out of here. I would have liked to watch this.....

[@jasonmcalister5282]

So from just the first few minutes of this its sounding like its all still around!

[@immikeurnot]

I doubt they had a G3. The HK91 is the civilian market version of the G3, which is probably what they hsd.

[@JL-qe5gl]

The book has a lot more details. They had kidnapped a man that owned the van that they had tried to use for the getaway and abandoned, and he was in the van locked in a cabinet while the initial shootout was happening outside the bank. The chase/shootout in the carjacked utility pickup with high toolboxes along both sides went on for about 40 miles and thousands of rounds were fired by the robbers; 2 in the bed and one firing from the shotgun seat.

[@harryjames7675]

According to the films and television produced in Hollywood for the decades since, this occurance happens on a daily basis in North America. So hearing that this was the biggest robbery shootout in US history is astonishing to me in little old England.

[@Two-Checks]

And it never happened again in California.

[@northwestprof60]

crashed into a "telegraph" pole?? Now these stupid bots are not only Brits but time-travelers....

[@eddieraffs5909]

Shades of the 1981 Nanuet, New York Brink's massacre.

[@cyberfox981]

This thing is not funny at all, but putting unarmored helicopter in effective range of this lunatics is just like OK guys today target practice for free!

[@johnnyjumpup859]

To be fair across Europe Bank robberies were also very common in the seventies .. especially in London Dublin And Paris

[@McIntyreBible]

A great informative documentary!

[@briantaylor9285]

These guys were bonkers. All that mayhem, and they forgot the money??? Bruh. 💀

[@Buttermilkjug]

Your voice sounds like you'd be a great author/writer.

[@-CmonMeow]

80's-90's you could get some badass firearms, so hard to find these days, love h&k

[@leisti]

It's certainly a shame how difficult it is for American civilians to acquire firearms.

[@gregtennessee8249]

Mass Shootings are a daily occurrence nowadays...

[@rael5469]

Interesting.....that video is reversed. The ejection port on the AR style rifle is on the other side. How do you reverse a video?

[@andrewcarter7503]

As a member of my own school chess club, I'd just like to say not all chess players are like that. Certainly no more than half of them.

[@davesworkshop2714]

Another fantastic video, thanks for sharing. Gave me a good excuse to make and gin and tonic and sit down to watch 🙂👍

[@i_dont_live_here]

You think they would’ve been better ready for the north Hollywood incident.

[@itsa-itsagames]

what a horrible plan/idea... and then they didnt even take the cash..

[@Joel-StevenVoicedude]

Didn't this inspire the heist gone wrong in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs?

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

Would it be possible to pick a more nasal narrator.? Almost as bad as fake moped experts.