Posted on 10/19/2017 8:52:17 AM PDT by Elderberry
The prosecution in the first Twin Peaks Biker Brawl Trial presented most of its case late yesterday and today.
Typically, because the prosecution is not artful but clumsy, it interrupted its own narrative to try to vilify the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, a living, breathing artifact of the Vietnam era, as a “criminal street gang.”
The concept of a “gang” has evolved since sociologist Frederic Thrasher published The Gang: A Study of 1313 Gangs in Chicago, in 1929. Contemporary sociologists are inclined to see what police call gangs as expressions of gender. One witness yesterday said the Bandidos “teach you how to be a man.” Contemporary police and prosecutors insist that “gangs” are wild Indians who must be exterminated lest they burn our settlements and make decent women into windburned squaws. Throwing the word “gang” around is also a good way to stigmatize defendants and exaggerate their alleged misdeeds.
So that is what most of the trial has been about. Three gang experts have testified so far. Today, in the middle of the day’s testimony, there was a parade of bartenders and bar owners and waitresses and cops who have seen some really bad stuff, man. And although none of them actually pointed their fingers at defendant Jake Carrizal, the prosecution expected jurors would do that in their heads.
Magical Realism
The remainder of the last eight hours of testimony was about what led up to the moments shots rang out at the brunch from hell.
Two weeks before the Twin Peaks Brawl, Waco gang intelligence officer Jeff Rogers distributed an email announcing the big meeting at the Twin Peaks that included the comment, “HA are getting involved as a support club for the Cossacks.” No witness could remember seeing it. All the witnesses are very busy and sometimes their inboxes get full. “We get all kinds of information.” explained Waco Police Swat Sergeant Stephen Drews.
According to testimony by Drews and Texas Department of Public Safety agent Christopher Frost there were a total of 20 cops at the Twin Peaks that day. Twelve were Waco Swat officers led by Drews. One was a rookie officer named Nicki Stone who was there to get some good training. Another was Jeff Rogers. The other six were plainclothes DPS agents: Lieutenant Steven Schwartz, Chris Frost, Chris Dale, Mark Gerik, Cory Ledbetter and Justin Overcast. Drews told his Swat officers “it would be an easy overtime assignment.” Ledbetter and Overcast were late getting to the Twin Peaks because they had forgotten to bring along a “long lens camera,” so they had to go back to somewhere and get one from somewhere and then go somewhere.
Drews and his men did not know that the six DPS agents were at the Twin Peaks let alone where they were.
Rogers has magical powers like a Yaqui sorcerer. At 10:30 a.m. on May 17, 2015 he simultaneously attended meetings at Waco Police headquarters and at the Flying J Truck Stop.
Cinematography 101
Frost set up the pole camera “between six-thirty and seven.” He checked it out from the Temple, Texas DPS office. He had never installed a pole camera before so he put this in a place where its field of view would be obstructed. As District Attorney Abelino Reyna put it, “Hindsight is 20-20.” The video it generated was uploaded to a server in Austin. Frost controlled it with an iPad from far away.
None of these policemen felt compelled to congregate at the Twin Peaks. Some of them occasionally drove past the patio where the Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting was scheduled to be held. The only policemen there who had a view better than the pole camera were Michael Bucher and Heath Jackson who parked their black SUV approximately behind the Don Carlos restaurant on the other side of the parking lot. They did not turn on their dash cam. The footqage from their dash camera was retrieved from a black box after the fact.
Swat’s job that day was to be “a visible deterrent.”
The polecam showed that Sandra Lynch, who reserved the Twin Peaks for the COC meeting arrived at the restaurant at 11:05 a.m.
The Cossacks arrived at 11:32.
Zup Big O
Bandidos Nomad Marshall Mitchell, accompanied by two club brothers, shook hands with Cossack Nomad Owen Reeves at 11:37 then went inside.
Because one Cossack sent out a cartoon of a bear trap before his club ambushed the Bandidos, Assistant District Attorney Amanda Dillon felt compelled to state over and over to the jury as the footage rolled, “See. The Bandidos are free to go. The Red and Gold is not trapped.”
“The Cossacks are not hiding or trying to trap anyone.
The Boozefighters rode in at 11:56.
At 11:59, it looked like Sandra Lynch had stopped setting up for the event.
“See. There is no conflict as a Bandido walks through a cluster of Cossacks.”
“Do they look trapped or surprised?”
“The Bandidos are not trapped.”
The Defendent
At 12:23 Frost futilely tried to pan his camera right using his iPad from 300 yards away to see what was happening just off screen as Cossacks started leaping the rail between the Twin Peaks patio and the parking lot.
At 12:24:38 people visible in the pole cam feed start to run away.
At 12:25 independent rider and 65-year-old Vietnam veteran Jesus Delgado “Jesse” “Mohawk” Rodriguez is shot through the heart by Cossack Jacob Cody Reese and then shot in the head by Cossack Jacob “Rattlecan” Rhyne.
“What was Carrizal doing” someone near me whisperd.
“He was holding his father after his father was shot by police.”
Definitely Bad Guys
Drews heard the first shot fired. He was out of sight of the patio area where the fight began but he heard the first shot. He described the weapons all the Swat officers carried as sound suppressed M-4s. He knows the first shot could not have been fired by a police officer because he knows what a sound suppressed rifle sounds like. The weapon that fired the first shot was not a sound suppressed M-4. Drews would know if it was and he would tell the truth about it.
According to Drews, no police unit turned on its siren because a “siren would have had no effect.”
Nicki Stone was wrong when her bodycam heard her say, “I really didn’t think it was going to end like this. I thought that we were supposed to stay back and let them fight this out.”
Drews testified under examination by Reyna that he never told anybody “to stay back and let them fight this out.”
Were the FBI and BATFE notified in advance of this shootout?
Where were they stationed and when did they showup? Who were undercover or CIs?
Bandidos Motorcycle Club is a criminal organization.
Depraved, vicious and cowards all, weak girly-boys and likely repressed homos.
Thank you for the update
We still don’t know if the child porn found on their phones is of boys or girls.
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