Posted on 06/10/2015 10:45:35 AM PDT by don-o
Breitbart Texas has filed a formal request for the release of video tapes that might shed more light on the questions being raised about the mass arrest of bikers after the shooting incident outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17th. The written request asks for surveillance video from Twin Peaks and the nearby Don Carlos restaurant, as well a police dash-cam video.
After a spate of recent court filings about the legality of the $1,000,000 bail that the “Waco 170” bikers face, even the most fundamental questions about the shooting have not been answered.
Weeks after the clash that left 9 dead and 18 injured, we still have no idea how many of the dead were killed by other bikers, and how many were shot by the police. There are also differing accounts of where and how the conflict started.
These questions remain even after autopsies have been performed and the crime scene is long closed, because Waco authorities have gone quiet about the shooting.
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Breitbart Texas filed a request that reads, in part:
Dear Custodian of Records for the Waco Police Department:
Under the Texas Public Information Act, §6252-17a et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of public records pertaining to: all video related to the May 17, 2015 shootings at or around the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, including but not limited to surveillance video from the Twin Peaks and Don Carlos restaurants, and the police dash cam video.
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ping and thanks for the heads up
This whole thing stinks.
This will ruffle some feathers.
The reason for the stonewalling is obvious: The only shots fired were fired by the police. This was another massacre in Waco and the local, state, and Federal governments are trying to cover it up or at least let the attention to the massacre die off before they go public with the fact that the bikers were murdered under color of authority.
I say this because if there was evidence that these bad old bikers deserved it then we’d have seen it because government is a PR-lusting attention whore if there ever was one.
DOJ is laying low on this one, unless I missed it. No beer summits either.
When questions are not answered one can can hae a high level of confidence that the answers are significantly unfavorable to the people of whom the questions are asked.
The whole setup with snipers positioned before the targets even arrived suggests there was some communication with DoJ before the shooting started. This is a pretty audacious operation to go down without DoJ aproval or instigation. I have wondered if there was a federal representative on the scene. I believe it is the DoJ belief that outlaw bikers are a potential opposition force when the serious shooting starts. Veterans and serving military are another and more obvious source of worry to the rulers.
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Cover-up, eerily reminiscent of the aftermath at Baltimore.
Watching this thread...
From the various accounts I've read, at least one shooting injury and at least one shooting death by bikers.
I predict that will be enough for the courts to whitewash all the rest. The apologists for the state will continue to assert that the state can do no wrong.
Now THAT would be funny, if it weren’t so damned spot on.
Weeks after the clash that left 9 dead and 18 injured, we still have no idea how many of the dead were killed by other bikers, and how many were shot by the police. There are also differing accounts of where and how the conflict started. (My emphasis)
"Weeks"!! Where in the Hell are the autopsy reports? After all, there were only nine decedents and it shouldn't have taken much more than a day to do an autopsy on each that would at least show whether he was killed by a projectile from a .223/556 rifle or a hand gun. That would go a long way to showing whether this started out as a biker brawl or was much more of a LE massacre. Since LE has those reports and isn't releasing them, it being reasonable to assume they would release them if hey were favorable, I'm coming reluctantly to sympathize with the LE massacre theory.
Given the pictures of the “police” at the scene show several undercover cops wearing the same outfits as many of the bikers it stands to reason that it’s these cops who fired first.
I say that because if it were true that biker weapons were used to kill someone then the PR machine would not be silent like they are, instead they’d be proudly strutting this information at a press conference to show how right they are.
Bottom line, whenever government is keeping something quiet or trying to keep it secret it’s not because they did something right.
The press has no right to examine and publish collected evidence before the case proceeds. Taints the jury pool.
Doing that will let the murderous organized crime gang members have an instant ground for appeal.
I guess We’ll need to move Her to the FR Witness Protection Program.
Problem being that requires Her to become a (Don’t yell at Me) demonrat, move back in to Her Parents basement, buy a VW Bus, go on Welfare, zer0care, Food Stamps, get a zer0phone and move to DU and sign up.
I think that's improbable. An undercover might have provoked a hothead, but again, the account that I find most credible is a small shootout between a few bikers, followed by mahem, most thrown by police.
-- whenever government is keeping something quiet or trying to keep it secret it's not because they did something right. --
I agree with that. I think the government's use of force was reckless in the extreme, and not justified. The courts will find, at worst, that there were a few reckless shots but by and large the police did nothing wrong. That's what courts do, whitewash police action (unless is obviously out of line, like ramming a broomstick up some detainee's nether region).
The video most likely creates "bad optics" for the police.
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