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64surveillanceWashington State ArchivesA patrol officer monitors the waters, pulling a net presumably set by anIndian fisherman.a nearby landing.“I went down and had a fight with them. I pulledthem nets out of their car. My dog salmon are all over the ground. Isaid, ‘You sons of bitches! You guys are stealing my net and stealingmy fish!’ And they were hollering at me. And there was a MP standingthere, a military police guy. And I said, ‘Are you in this, son of abitch?’ He never said anything. I pulled them fish and put them in theback of my—I only had a coupe that I was in, a Chevrolet coupe, witha trunk. And I was throwing my fish and the net back in the car. Theytook one net and I got the other one. They didn’t arrest me thattime.”In addition to his personal encounters, Billy says the state followed,roughed up, and mistreated his family. One night after dark, his nieceAlison Bridges woke as a spotlight cast shadows and crept across herbedroom wall. “I’d wake up at two in the morning and there would