Posted on 03/08/2017 7:43:53 PM PST by Elderberry
A Brenham woman who says she was wrongfully charged in the 2015 biker gang shootout that left nine dead and 177 people arrested has filed a $350 million federal lawsuit against the City of Waco, McLennan County, the district attorney, police chief and other investigators.
Morgan English, 32, filed the suit Wednesday in federal court in Austin, contending officials violated her constitutional rights and lied to authorities in wrongly claiming that she was a known member of a criminal motorcycle gang who participated in ongoing criminal activities.
"This is especially outrageous because a perjured arrest affidavit was issued for a young lady who arrived at the restaurant parking lot minutes before the shooting began," said Randall Kallinen, the Houston civil rights attorney who is representing her.
"Morgan English has now been portrayed all over the world as involved in a mass homicide. Her lawsuit is very different from others that have been filed following the melee nearly 22 months ago."
Authorities have pointed to a judge's gag order that prohibits them from commenting publicly about what happened in Waco.
English and her husband, William, drove to Waco that May for what they thought would be a quarterly meeting of a motorcycle group called the Coalition of Clubs and Independents to discuss bike-related legislation.
But after the couple arrived and started walking from their Nissan Sentra to the meeting spot at the Twin Peaks restaurant, they heard shots ring out and took cover.
They later learned that police had staked out the scene in anticipation of a face-off between members of the Cossacks and Bandidos motorcycle gangs.
When the smoke cleared, nine bikers were dead - and "most deaths were from law enforcement gunfire," the suit alleges.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
If this makes it to jury, I’d love to be on that jury.
It’s a misunderstanding.
What an absurd reaction to an honest mistake..../S
Total FUBAR from day 1.
Only in Wac(k)o and with the help for Fed Gov Agencies.
This will not end well for the state of Texas or the Fed. Gov.
To err is human. But some people are just not part of the human race as I know it.
I’m ashamed for the State of Texas not stopping this fiasco.
There was NO reason for this to have happened.
The deaths are bad enough, but ruining almost 200 peoples lives for nothing.
Wonder when the chime-in crowd will show up? You know, the ones that said the bikers all deserved this.
Waco deserves to go bankrupt over this and pay every single one of the innocent people there that day for wrongful imprisonment and harassment. Police departments everywhere should use that event as an example of how NOT to do it. Yes, there were some bad actors (bikers) there that day, but the vast majority who were not in either club should have been let go on the spot after collecting their info. They could always be contacted later to come in for further questions (with a lawyer if they wanted). Just all around very bad police work that day.
Oh and, in before TG, that disgusting sack of swamp creature dung.
In before TexasGator’s snarky comment...
The Waco cops arrested innocent people and killed others and some of those may have been innocent. Yet they won’t charge Baylor thug football players for raping women all over town.
This whole mess has been fubar from the gitgo. To this date no one has been brought to trial.
Subhuman ping . . .
Eff that Plasticine, peroxide freak.
Nah. Remember Kent State and Ludlow. When the gummint screws up and murders people it never pays. Some low level flunky may get a wrist slap but that is about it. Sorry.
But but but, Texas Gator says all those who ride motorcycles are bad people!
Police do not mention that they had video cameras on tall poles preinstalled at the site. They maintain it was “spontaneous”.
Oh, and what about the Feds that were there that day? They seem to have disappeared into the ether.
Makes me wonder if it wasn’t another History Channel “I Went Inside An Outlaw Biker Gang” show, gone horribly awry.
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