Posted on 02/26/2019 3:52:39 PM PST by Elderberry
Nearly four years ago, over 170 people were arrested after a violent altercation outside a meeting of motorcycle club members at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, was swarmed by police, who had already surrounded the meeting before anything untoward occurred. Nine people were killed and 18 wounded in the melee. This week, the last of the initial set of charges was dropped after a special prosecutorial team didn't like what it saw.
From the start, lawyers and others pointed out that it was very unlikely indeed that all the arrested had committed any crimes at all, and that the initial $1 million bond for all of them charged with a blanket crime of "engaging in organized criminal activity" seemed unreasonably punitive. The police strove in the aftermath to keep a detailed account of what actually happened from reaching the public eye, or that of defense attorneys.
As the years under which those people had criminal charges hanging over their heads went by—with all the problems that come with that on top of the missed work and rent and family responsibilities that bedeviled them from their initial time in custody under that absurd bond—dozens of the arrested went unindicted as grand juries expired, and last year charges began to be dropped against many of the defendants, with not a single successful prosecution having happened yet nearly four years after the mass arrests.
Many of the bikers who had charges eventually dropped have filed civil rights suits against local police and district attorneys over the absurd arrests and incredibly long times to get any of them to trial.
This week the whole case continued its painfully slow unraveling, as three more bikers, the last still facing that first set of indictments, saw their cases dismissed.
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The Waco defendants have had much of their lives destroyed by the local Waco Statist Wanabes. Here’s hoping they have MUCHO success in their civil lawsuits.
I think much of this was to keep the police from being prosecuted for what they did.
I think he has a court date around the 25th of March.
I’m sure the police had a reason. Probably the same reason they shoot dogs whenever they feel like it. I’ve said for decades the police are NOT your friends no matter how hung ho law and order you are.
Anyone seen TG around, who I’m in before?
She was on a tech thread a few days ago.
I’guessing she won’t show.
What is scary is that TDPS was in on this as well as McClennon County.
TDPS/Troopers were there.
She?’s still active, just never again on a Waco Thread.
Kinda reminds me of the DOJ and FBI over the last 25 years.
5.56mm
Got anything to say now?
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Thanks for keeping up with this, Elderberry.
Have we ever seen the ballistics report?
I feel vindicated.... lot of “on the cops side” when this initially started !!
Tain't never seen one.
There was some ballistics discussed in Jake's trial.
No, loud mouth has nothing to say.
It's still trolling on other threads.
It was trolling the threads where the Houston police murdered that married couple, Dennis and Rhogena Tuttle - until all was revealed.
Then, it disappeared from those threads...
Yeah, well, I have an idea why.
When I’m wrong and get called on it I admit it and move on. That’s what grown ups do.
Immature children sulk and refuse to admit their errors.
Don’t you agree?
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Same chest beating know-it-all posts. Until we now it all, then crickets.
And how the Gator disappeared from the Houston/Tuttle threads when it was revealed that the murderers offed the Tuttles under color of authority?
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