[House Atreides]

“...The incident remains under investigation, which is headed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but a great deal of questions still remain, including who fired the fatal shots, which authorities have yet to disclose. ...”
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Jeez, putting BATF in charge of the investigation is equivalent to putting NAZIS in charge of the post WWII trials at Nuremberg. No, they would never think to try to cover up any misdeeds by their agents or undercover operatives. My suspicions that this was a BATF "provocation operation" gone bad continues to grow. Can they drag things out until after the 2016 elections? My bet is that they will try.

[Osage Orange]

Little “red boots” probably works for the BATF.

[Finny]

My suspicions that this was a BATF "provocation operation" gone bad continues to grow.

It is very strange, too. Talk about provocation -- those guys being held in "secure facilities" (jail, detention, lock-down) for questioning had their wrists zip-tied (except when using the john) until the next morning. For ... what, exactly? To just answer some questions and go home, from what they'd been led to expect? Then prevented from home, work, obligations, bills, for two weeks at least on million dollar bail?

In a context where wallet chains are supposed to be dangerous weapons.

I just shake my head -- what would this story look like today if 60 youngish pissed off mostly law-abiding productive working American bikers with bills and families like anybody else, had understandably rioted at such mistreatment for zip? Why the need for wrist-ties? I don't know many people personally who could have stood that ordeal without going ballistic.

The whole thing is just ugly.