Posted on 08/03/2015 4:13:22 AM PDT by don-o
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“There’s a lot of information out about Waco, (but) not a lot of information that any of it’s going to spill over into Sturgis,” said Dan Satterlee, an assistant director at the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation.
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Common sense. 200 bikers with no warning vs 100,000 locked and loaded.
Do not understand. Article says attendance expected to be 1,000,000. (I guess they have intelligence.)
Not unexpected. Sturgis has become as near to hallowed ground as the biker community can get. Even for the 1% crowd. The Angels, Banditos, Pagans, and Mongols have been going for years without incident.
Back in the 70’s and early 80’s it would get wild but really has calm down.
Your number is probably better than mine. Hell, a million armed bikERS in South Dakota could pretty much start their own state. Who knows, maybe their own country.
What is curious is that the webcams have shown little activity so far. Usually I see bikes on the streets at least the week before the official start. Maybe I’ve been watching at odd times.
The police will not be able to shoot a lot of people like they did in Waco, far too many people with too many cameras.
Image the annual Sturgis tv shows!
Lack of cameras is not the problem in Waco.
Uh, the hikers started the shootout ...
As long as you keep Waco PD away it should go off without a hitch.
We live about 45 miles from Sturgis, but we are off a major "cruise" road. Really other than the rumble, there are not any significant problems in the area. People come to enjoy the hills and go to the concerts. Bring lots of money I here drinks go for 12.00 bucks a pop up there. Anyway, we can handle it. Open carry state. ;)
The cops finished it, and killed all but one of the dead, is the word on the street (and is why the autopsy and videos have not been released).
Used to be that the cover up was always worse that the crime. This case may shatter that template.
That’s because Waco was manufactured. By the cops. If bikers were even half as dangerous as the red jackboot licking statist thugs (even here on FR) are saying, Sturgis would have exploded long ago.
We re-routed to the southern route, knowing that so many cyclists would make our logistics (eating, lodging, gassing up) a potential nightmare.
I often think of my high skoo pal who owns the Spearfish KOA....gotta be a goldmine for him!
“The cops finished it, and killed all but one of the dead, is the word on the street”
The word on the street from various bikers is that the cops acted responsibly and saved lives that day.
“If bikers were even half as dangerous as the red jackboot licking statist thugs (even here on FR) are saying, Sturgis would have exploded long ago.”
I would imagine that bringing in cops from six other states to assist has a little to do with keeping the peace.
All they’ve got now is AP headlines, and since most apparently came well after their pervert source got arrested, and they couldn’t find anyone as “reputable”, it’s easy to see why they’ve brought in fascist reinforcements here and stepped up the hate and lies.
Typical leftist thugs pretending to be conservative.
Shame on FR for enabling them.
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