Whatchya think, Errol? Where are we as a society?
Posted on 05/18/2015 12:20:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
)—Even while the horrific details from the fatal gang battle in Waco, Texas, filter in, it's not too soon to ask: Is this who and what we have become as a nation? A place where a shootout between five heavily armed criminal gangs can unfold at a restaurant, in full view of law enforcement, leaving nine dead, 18 hospitalized and some 170 people arrested?
Law enforcement officers knew at least a week in advance that a horde of bikers was converging on the Twin Peaks restaurant, where the massacre took place, and stationed a dozen local and state officers on the scene -- including members of a SWAT team.
But that didn't stop the gangsters from clashing with knives, clubs, and guns. Police say the bikers fired at each other, and eventually at the officers who tried to stop the carnage.
Are Americans now so lawless that presence of law enforcement doesn't deter gunplay?
Innocent patrons and restaurant staffers hid inside a freezer, KWTX reported. It's a minor miracle that no cops, restaurant employees or diners were hurt or killed.
Twin Peaks held regular events called "bike nights." Concerned about the possibility of violence, Waco police had asked Twin Peaks to try to keep biker gangs away....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Same here. Have not heard of biker gang violence myself since I was a kid and it was about the Hades Angels.
This is what happens when a nation despises God.
Unintended consequences echoing from Baltimore? “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to ...” ... perps were content to, um, keep it among themselves until the police got in the way. The official demeaning of local police creates a power vacuum which WILL be filled by those favoring the law of the jungle. Where there isn’t such a vacuum, those inspired by the one in Baltimore may test local law enforcement to see how serious they are.
Hooters-Style Restaurant Featuring Scantily Clad Male Servers Coming To Dallas’ Gayborhood
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/04/hooters-style-restaurant-featuring-scantily-clad-male-servers-coming-to-dallas-gayborhood.html
I thought Sturgis was Angels turf?
Whatchya think, Errol? Where are we as a society?
The participants were not apparently interested in harming employees, diners, or police. Their focus appears to have been on each other, and they apparently limited their fire to those targets.
That's better shooting than the police usually do in many urban areas.
We haven’t seen crazies killing people like this around Waco since the FBI slaughtered 76 people in the Branch Davidian compound 22 years ago.
Dangit, you would have to go and harsh my mellow.
lil errol would prefer that all this talk bout ferguson...or was that Baltimore...? go away cause it SO racess!.
So even though violent, were these weekend Biker Gangs?
Don't real Biker Gangs prefer the strip clubs?
Last time I checked tattoos were expensive, right? Yet the person in the top photo has to steal paper towels and drink mix?
Last time I checked, “Corrections Officer” was a reasonably well paying job. Yet, two of them had to steal Tostitos and Slim Jims in order to stave off starvation?
Maybe PART of the problem is that police don’t feel like risking their lives for nothing.
The least that could happen to him is a trip to slam for presuming to enforce the laws he’s been hired, trained and paid to do.
That’s the second or third such bar & grill in Dallas from what I saw during my search. Imagine what San Francisco looks like...
Errol here needs to go back and read all about the mob wars that wracked Chicago, New York, Atlantic City, Cleveland, etc. during the 1930s before uttering his nonsense.
Good point.
“Are Americans now so lawless that presence of law enforcement doesn’t deter gunplay?”
For a minute there I thought he was referring to the Baltimore riots. My mistake.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.