[Hugin]

It isn’t clear because the police are hiding the truth about their biker ambush.

[Suz in AZ]

What would happen if one of them talked anyway and forced the judge to jail them?

[kiryandil]

IBTG

[USNBandit]

Where do the interests of justice become outweighed by the need to avoid a sense of a coverup? I am not sure that a gag order, in general, ever helps anything.

What we see in so many cases these days is a trial in the media prior to the real trial. Most of the time this is waged by defense attorneys, but there has been an alarming trend in prosecutorial public statements. The idiot state's attorney in Baltimore is a perfect and well known example. Other examples are public press releases by U.S. Attorney''s offices, detailing crime sprees and then charging the defendant with a much less serious crime.

[mad_as_he$$]

The Atlantic? How dare you post from that criminal bikers supporting blog pimping site! /s

[Joe Boucher]

Authorities did the samething after the Murrah buliding in Okie City was blown up.
The confiscated ALL the security video from EVERY security camera in the cityand won’t release any of them to the public.
What are the authorities trying to cover up?
Authority involvement?????

[JJ_Folderol]

Sounds like the article was sourced here!

[ladyjane]

rompting the arrest of 177 people, many of them presumably innocent,

Weren't they all presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law?

[arthurus]

I suspect all of them were hit by police bullets which is why the police don’t want to release any information to anyone. Perhaps the police bullets were the only bullets to leave guns. The agents provacateurs policemen in drag seem to have been outed already so their bullets cannot be claimed as biker bullets. This was, as has been said by many, surely an ambush and massacre. I wonder what stopped the police from finishing the job? Waco already has a reputation for that sort of thing, though not involving local cops.

[null and void]

That was unexpected...

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[catfish1957]

Becoming more like a plot line from Sons of Anarchy every day.

[Lady Heron]

“The gunfire included rounds fired by police that hit bikers, though it isn't clear whether those rifle shots caused any of the fatalities,”

BS

[don-o]

prompting the arrest of 177 people, many of them presumably innocent

Every single one of the 177 are presumed innocent.

snip from article

Lawyers in the case have seen “dashboard video of people fleeing the scene while shots ring out, audio of police threatening to shoot people if they rise from the ground and photos of bodies lying in pools of blood in the restaurant parking lot,” AP adds.

I must have missed the part about the lawyers having seen....in the AP story referenced. There WERE at least two different versions that I saw.

I wonder if "lawyers" means prosecutors?

[don-o]

the Associated Press reports after reviewing 8,800 pages of evidence apparently leaked to the news organization.

I was sure I had seen two different versions of the AP report on Friday. Here is a third from usnews

APNewsBreak: Evidence shows Waco police bullets hit bikers in May melee, unclear if any fatal

Which includes this detail that was not in the other two versions I saw on Friday....

Authorities did not know exactly what to do with the large number of weapons and "just started laying them on the ground away from the suspects," officer Joshua Fischer wrote in a report.

This tends to confirm what The Aging Rebel reported from an eyewitness; that weapons were being piled up on the ground. Is all of that evidence tainted?

[House Atreides]

IBTG

[LucyT]

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