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~ at PAGE FIVE. LA 7-162 E POINT, “FREEMAN WAS REQUESTED TO CHECK A LOCAL GARAGE REGAR ING POSSIBILITY OF PURCHASING A STATION WAGON OR A VAN AND WAS ALSO REQUESTED TO OBTAIN A LOCAL NEWS- PAPER. WHEN HE RETURNED, FREEMAN STATED HIS INQUIRIES CON} CERNING A VAN LOCALLY WERE NEGATIVE AND THAT HE RETURNED TQ THE RESIDENCE WITH A COPY OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ‘NEWSPAPER. HE AND CINQUE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME LOOKING: . “THROUGH THE WANT ADS FOR A POSSIBLE VEHICLE FOR PURCHASE WiTH NEGATIVE RESULTS. EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON, FREEMAN OBTAINED FUNDS FROM CINQUE AND WAS SENT OUT TO LOOK FOR A VAN AT VARIOUS PARKING LOTS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA. FREEMAN BOARDED A LOS ANGELES-BOUND BUS NEAR 54TH STREET AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER FELL ASLEEP AND WHEN HE AWOKE FOUND HIMSELF tN CENTRAL LOS ANGELES. BY THIS TIME IT WAS LATE AFTERNOON AND HE BOARDED ANOTHER BUS HEADED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE 54 TH STREET AREA AND ONCE MORE BEGAN DOZING AND THIS _ TIME WHEN HE AWOKE PEOPLE WERE SPEAKING ABUT THE POLICE “HAVING LOCATED SLA MEMBERS IN THE 54 TH STREET AREA. FREEMAN WENT BACK TO THE AREA SURROUNDING 1466 EAST 54 TH STREET AND STOOD IN THE CROWD WHILE THE GUN BATTLE BETWEEN THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEF AIMENT AND THE SLA CONTINUED, THEN BEGAN DRINKING: