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Chief: 3 cops fired shots when Texas biker shooting erupted
Assoc. Press ^ | 06/12/2015

Posted on 06/12/2015 2:18:15 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas officers responding to a deadly melee outside a biker gathering in Waco had disabled their automatic rifles so the weapons couldn't fire more than one round per trigger pull, the city's police department said Friday, countering witnesses who said they heard what sounded like gunfire from automatic weapons.

Only three of the nearly two dozen officers outside the Twin Peaks restaurant fired their weapons, shooting a total of 12 bullets, after gunfire erupted following a dispute between two rival biker gangs, according to Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman and statements released by his office. The officers were staged outside the restaurant on May 17, in anticipation of a large meeting of biker groups.

"We did not fire indiscriminately into the crowd. Our officers were restrained," Stroman said during a news conference Friday in Waco.

~snip~

Stroman said Friday that investigators collected 44 shell casings from the scene. Police also said that 151 firearms were among the hundreds of weapons recovered from the scene that included knives, brass knuckles, tomahawks, bats, a machete and a chain. Some weapons were stashed in between bags of flour in the restaurant's kitchen, while others were recovered with metal detectors, found buried under grass, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: sgtpatrickswanton; sgtswanton; waco
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New info just released today.
1 posted on 06/12/2015 2:18:15 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: don-o; Travis McGee

ping.


2 posted on 06/12/2015 2:18:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Let the storytelling begin!


3 posted on 06/12/2015 2:21:03 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Responsibility2nd
recovered with metal detectors, found buried under grass

What?

4 posted on 06/12/2015 2:22:20 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: vette6387

Yeah. When will someone come along and claim cops planted those weapons among those bags of flour?


5 posted on 06/12/2015 2:22:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: hadaclueonce

media eating up every word with a spoon.


6 posted on 06/12/2015 2:23:07 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: hadaclueonce
the proverbial - they keep digging
7 posted on 06/12/2015 2:23:27 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Responsibility2nd

Can we have a publlic review of the RoE again please?


8 posted on 06/12/2015 2:27:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

12 shots by 3 cops killed 9 people in less than 15 seconds.


9 posted on 06/12/2015 2:31:14 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

12 little bullets on the wall,

12 bullets in all.

Shoot one down, load a round,

11 bullets left in all.


10 posted on 06/12/2015 2:32:05 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What? This info just released?

But....thank you very much, the narrative has already been cut, pasted, judged, decided and spread like chocolate frosting all over the blogs by the deciders that the cops don’t get their side of the story!

Now comes this! No fair! What to do, what to do? (Hand wringing)

No cops story, I tell you! It’s got to be a LIE!!! LIES!

No, it’s not! It’s a conspiracy!! That’s IT! A conspiracy!

////////////super snark


11 posted on 06/12/2015 2:32:50 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Responsibility2nd

First of all - selecting single shot is not disabling the weapon.

Second - Earlier it was 4 officers that fired

Third - How many bikers fired?

fourth - How many kills made by officers?

Fifth - Did any other government employees or informants fire? What agencies? How many rounds?

Sixth - How many undercover officers and informants were on the scene?

Seventh - What was the officer in the red cowboy boots doing on the scene? Was he previously in biker colors at twin peaks?


12 posted on 06/12/2015 2:33:58 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Responsibility2nd
had disabled their automatic rifles so the weapons couldn't fire more than one round per trigger pull

Why were they using automatic weapons anyway, and how do we know they were switched to single-shot? Cops have certainly been know to lie.

13 posted on 06/12/2015 2:34:44 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hmmm.

It’s Friday afternoon.


14 posted on 06/12/2015 2:36:39 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Responsibility2nd

So, LEOs fired 12 out of 44 that were fired from
150+ weapons at the scene, someone wasn’t paying attention.


15 posted on 06/12/2015 2:36:50 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Absolutely no way the cops fired only 12 rounds.

The idea that a bunch of cops have that kind of trigger discipline is ludicrous.


16 posted on 06/12/2015 2:41:30 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: Delta 21

The. Cops didn’t shoot all the people according to statements. They say therr are videos showing gang members executing rivals.


17 posted on 06/12/2015 2:41:33 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cicero2k

I noticed that too.

Late Friday afternoon news dump.


18 posted on 06/12/2015 2:41:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“weapons were stashed in between bags of flour in the restaurant’s kitchen”...

I’ll admit I’m somewhat jaded-but this is sounding like a script for either Sons of Anarchy or El Senior de los Cielos-a Telemundo series about narco mafia types but without the bikes-I can hardly wait for the next episode..


19 posted on 06/12/2015 2:47:19 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/06/waco-police-chief-says-officers-fired-a-dozen-shots/

More - including full statement.


20 posted on 06/12/2015 2:50:51 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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