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3 more bikers file federal civil suits over Twin Peaks arrests
Waco Tribune ^ | May 20, 2016 | TOMMY WITHERSPOON

Posted on 05/23/2016 7:12:29 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Three bikers arrested after the Twin Peaks shootout in Waco have joined the ranks of seven others who are suing McLennan County, Waco and state officials, alleging civil rights violations.

Bradley Terwilliger, of Bastrop County, and Benjamin Matcek and Jimmy Dan Smith, both of Burleson County, are seeking unspecified damages in their lawsuit, filed Friday in a Travis County federal court.

Like others before it, the lawsuit names McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna, Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco police Detective Manuel Chavez and an unnamed Department of Public Safety agent as defendants.

Reyna did not return phone messages left at his office Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bikers; federal; suit; texas; waco
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To: vette6387

I agree. It will be an expensive lesson all around. At least some of the innocent bikers will get to retire early and well off.


21 posted on 05/24/2016 2:36:56 AM PDT by Boomer (Immigration without assimilation is invasion.)
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To: vette6387

I agree. It will be an expensive lesson all around. At least some of the innocent bikers will get to retire early and well off.

Reyna may not be able to get a job as dog catcher.


22 posted on 05/24/2016 2:38:06 AM PDT by Boomer (Immigration without assimilation is invasion.)
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To: vette6387
There are other examples of turning the legal system into a weapon to punish political opposition.

Example, the John Doe Court and the WI Government Accountability Board's 3 year witch hunt trying to unseat Governor Scott Walker. This included active assistance by Louise Lehrner with the IRS.

If you have not followed that case it will give you a gray headache trying to understand the scope of that backroom ComDem POL manipulation of the Legal System.

It WAS turned into an open ended witch hunt with early morning SWAT like raids of Governor Walkers staff. In 3 years they made 2 successful prosecution for theft. But there were dozens of individuals examined under the microscope and placed under a gag order that they were not even allowed to discuss it with legal council. The scope of subpoenas for records of political action groups was unbelievable.

The similarities of method between that case and the Waco Twin Peaks case suggest this is a developing tool used by the ComDems.

23 posted on 05/24/2016 3:01:55 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: vette6387
When I referred to this as a ComDem weaponization of the legal system, I was referring to the Federal level, not the local. I think Renya is a Republican.
24 posted on 05/24/2016 3:11:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: vette6387

Background on the example I mentioned.

Five years later ( May 5, 2015): America just learning ‘tyrannical’ secrets of Wisconsin’s John Doe http://watchdog.org/215811/john-doe-wisconsin-scott-walker/

Wisconsin’s Secret War: An Overview of Our 200+ Story Investigation http://watchdog.org/wisconsin/secret-war/


25 posted on 05/24/2016 3:33:50 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Go ahead and throw rocks at me for this, but not all the bikers are criminals. FACT

Some of the most patriotic, down-to-earth folks out there are bikers - many of them vets....

26 posted on 05/24/2016 3:38:12 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

I agree. And I think it is why someone up the food chain decided to put them on the target list.

They are not manageable.


27 posted on 05/24/2016 4:09:41 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: sagar

Nobody was shot because neither sagar nor the BATF were there. Only bikers.


28 posted on 05/24/2016 4:45:55 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Texas Fossil

“I think Renya is a Republican.”

Well, there are just about as many rotten apples in the GOP barrel as there are in the one over at RAT Central. He’s a disgraceful example of what’s wrong with our justice system. Somone needs to fumigate the whole system ( i.e. city leaders, the PD, the DA’s office and the courts) in Whacko. Just a bunch of inbred morons!


29 posted on 05/24/2016 7:52:05 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Texas Fossil

“There are other examples of turning the legal system into a weapon to punish political opposition.”

Let’s not forget Ronnie Earle over in Austin (and his drunken bitch replacement who sued Rick Perry).


30 posted on 05/24/2016 7:54:21 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: trebb

“Some of the most patriotic, down-to-earth folks out there are bikers - many of them vets.... “

Not the ones involved in the Waco gang war ...


31 posted on 05/24/2016 11:25:08 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
Not the ones involved in the Waco gang war ...

There's always exceptions. I know many bikers and while not all are salt of the earth, for the most part they are stand up men and women, especially those who have served.

32 posted on 05/24/2016 11:46:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

“There’s always exceptions. I know many bikers and while not all are salt of the earth, for the most part they are stand up men and women, especially those who have served. “

How many Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws, Cossacks do you know?


33 posted on 05/24/2016 1:27:49 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: trebb

Me: Not the ones involved in the Waco gang war ...

You: There’s always exceptions.

Those ‘exceptions’ are the ones that were arrested and the ones under discussion.

At Twin Peaks the ‘exception’ was more the rule.


34 posted on 05/24/2016 1:29:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Texas Fossil

“Go ahead and throw rocks at me for this, but not all the bikers are criminals. FACT “

That has no bearing on the fact that about 200 gangsters lined up for a gang war in a public plaza.


35 posted on 05/24/2016 1:30:50 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

we disagree.


36 posted on 05/24/2016 6:17:49 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: vette6387

Yep. I had forgotten that crap. Think he had predecessor, was well know, but his name slips me.


37 posted on 05/24/2016 6:19:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: vette6387

Well, I would not have put it just like that.

But I do believe the way they are handling this is illegal and certainly unethical.

I’m dumbfounded at the vocal few here who choose to “not get it”.

I’m generally 100% for law enforcement. This is different.


38 posted on 05/24/2016 6:21:44 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

“we disagree.”

Yes. I don’t support biker gangs.


39 posted on 05/24/2016 7:43:58 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Texas Fossil

“This is different.”

Yes. This was a major gang confrontation in a family plaza on a Sunday morning ...


40 posted on 05/24/2016 7:44:56 PM PDT by TexasGator
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