Chief: 3 cops fired shots when Texas biker shooting erupted

Assoc. Press ^ | 06/12/2015

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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.

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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.

[don-o]

None of the Officers were assigned in a sniper capacity and all Officers were in their vehicles at the time the suspects began the shooting.

Maybe they finally realized how bad that image is. According to affidavits in the property seizures, the videos reveal ominous actions on the patio BEFORE shots were fired.

Matching that to the location of the cops, SITTING IN THEIR VEHICLES, as these ominous actions were ongoing, makes you go, "Hmmmm. Wonder why?"

[don-o]

Post 61 was intended for another thread. Context there is the fact that Waco PD has scrubbed Stroman’s update from their facebook page.