[Smokin' Joe]

Keep braying your ignorance. Why, those same independents and groups show up en masse at Daytona and Sturgis and hundreds (if not thousands) of other meetings and functions throughout any given year with less violence than towns of a similar size.

Apparently, you don't know what you are talking about, and for that matter we still don't know who killed who.

Motorcycle clubs have a reputation for being self-policing, and the baddest of the bad will handle their problems out of the public eye, whether those problems are internal or between different groups.

That was decidedly NOT the purpose of a CoC&I meeting, which is to discuss legislative issues which affect everyone who rides, and to help coordinate run schedules to allow clubs to have events which are not competing for the same crowds on any given weekend.

This has been posted more than once by people who are knowledgeable about the subject, but apparently you haven't been reading along.

Look up the CoC&I and find out for yourself.

[thefactor]

All that may be true, but this meeting went bad in a hurry. Just like anything else, the few ruin it for the many. But places like Sturgis and other large rallies are different, it would seem. You have thousands of bikers, not a concentrated gathering of hardcore guys who don’t like each other.