Chapter 8: Danger Signs
Norco 80
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Norco Bank Robbery happened over 40 years ago, but its legend continues influence how police officers are trained today. Thanks to one very popular VHS tape.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for LISD comes from Pasadena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day. |
| 0:04.6 | Jonathan Spector's Razor Sharp 2025 Tony Award-winning satire. |
| 0:09.1 | Eureka Day is on stage at Pasadena Playhouse beginning September 10th. |
| 0:13.2 | Tickets are on sale now at Pasadenaplayhouse.org. |
| 0:16.6 | Music LAS Studios |
| 0:29.2 | Previously on Norco 80 |
| 0:32.2 | When they talk about the arming of police in America, it starts here. |
| 0:38.3 | It starts with the narco bank robbery. |
| 0:40.3 | 451, three suspects flat. |
| 0:43.3 | A yellow pickup north of a hander. |
| 0:45.3 | We need a highly blocked it. |
| 0:47.3 | We're in Lightup Creek and what we're trying to do is hit the engines on the police vehicles to stop. |
| 0:55.0 | I wasn't trying to kill people. |
| 0:57.0 | He took around in the right eye, which basically killed him instantly. |
| 1:02.0 | He sent many memos to the sheriff that last year before he died. |
| 1:07.0 | Jim talked. |
| 1:08.0 | He told him, we need military assault rifles. |
| 1:11.7 | It's almost like he could see it coming. |
| 1:14.0 | He'd tell me, something big is going to happen. |
| 1:22.1 | We have been telling the story of a bank robbery that happened in 1980 over 40 years ago. |
| 1:29.0 | In a previous episode, we talked about how the response to the robbery was part of a national |
| 1:33.6 | moment where police began demanding more powerful weapons. |
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