Posted on 11/04/2016 7:35:27 PM PDT by Elderberry
Five more victims of the Great Twin Peaks Massacre Coverup filed suit Wednesday against former Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco police detective Manuel Chavez, McLennan County, Texas District Attorney Abelino “Abel” Reyna and John Doe, “an employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety that is” as of Wednesday “unnamed.”
Twenty-two civil rights lawsuits for false arrest and imprisonment have now been filed against Stroman, Chavez, Reyna and Doe.
The new complainants are Walter and Ester Weaver, Michael and Sandra Lynch and Julie Perkins. Complainants
Ester Weaver, a member of the women’s only Queens of Sheeba Motorcycle Club was arrested with her husband Walter, a civilian employee of Fort Hood who belonged to no motorcycle club. Weaver later told the Killeen Daily Herald that both were “clueless about why they were put in jail.” Walter told the paper that when he asked a McLennan County corrections officer why he was in jail he was told to “Shut up.”
Mike and Sandra Lynch were both members of the family oriented Los Pirados Motorcycle Club. Lynch rented space at the Twin Peaks restaurant to host a regional meeting of the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents, an advocacy and lobbying group that acted on behalf of motorcyclists. Sandra Lynch was well known in Waco for her charitable work. Two days after her arrest and imprisonment, Sandra Lynch accepted a proclamation from the Waco City Council “in absentia.”
Julie Perkins was a member of the family-oriented Distorted Motorcycle Club.
All five complainants are represented by Dallas attorney Don Tittle. All 22 lawsuits and any additional suits will be adjudicated by Federal District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin.
False Arrest
One hundred seventy-seven witnesses to a gunfight and brawl that left nine people dead and 18 injured were arrested, charged with “engaging in organized criminal activity” and held on $1 million bond each.
Tittle and his clients complain:
“Despite possessing video from numerous angles showing the complete lack of involvement of most of those arrested and hours and hours of interviews with the arrested individuals in which no evidence of a conspiracy was uncovered to support their ‘theory’ of pre-planned violence, Defendants willfully, intentionally, and recklessly charged 177 individuals with the identical first degree felony of Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity with the Intent to Commit or Conspire to Commit Murder, Capital Murder, or Aggravated Assault.
“To clarify, the decision to arrest and charge Plaintiffs and the other individuals with crimes despite video evidence, and statements from hundreds of witnesses, that directly contradict the existence of probable cause, or any reasonable belief thereof, can only be characterized as willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Based on the very specific information known by Defendants at the time their decision was made to arrest, including CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS video evidence directly at odds with Defendants’ theory of a mass criminal enterprise engaging in organized crime, it is impossible to believe Defendants’ conduct and decisions were anything other than willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Defendants’ decision to ignore contrary and exculpatory evidence in favor of a theory unsupported by the facts or the law was consciously made and therefore willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Investigative reports and DPS witness summaries provide specific proof of the facts alleged herein.”
Propaganda
The gunfight, in which at least four people were killed by police, was quickly sensationalized by the world press as a real life episode of the cable television soap opera Sons of Anarchy. CNN was still pursuing the same fatuous angle about what had happened in Waco a year later in a “Special Report” hosted by Ed Lavandera and titled “Biker Brawl: Inside the Texas Shootout.”
In the days after the arrests, police spokesman W. Patrick Swanton made numerous misleading and inaccurate statements about what had happened. The national and world press gobbled up the official nonsense. That gullibility contributed to the ruination of numerous victims of the official excess that followed the bloody brawl.
In the complaints filed yesterday, Tittle writes:
“Perhaps the most misleading characterization of the events was made days after the incident by Defendant Reyna when he implied that those arrested were guilty because ‘if they’re victims, then they shouldn’t have any problem coming to law enforcement and cooperating… and, at least in the first round of interviews, we ain’t getting that.’ This is blatantly false. A review of investigators’ records documenting the interviews that were conducted with the detained bikers clearly establishes that the vast majority, including Plaintiffs, were completely cooperative during interviews, and voluntarily submitted to questioning and requests for forensics (volunteering DNA samples and gunshot residue testing) from law enforcement. Defendant Reyna knew of these facts at the time he made the above described public statement.”
Thanks for update, does not look like much has changed.
Just more civil suits. It’s going to take a long, long, time to play out.
Friend of mine that was there said they expect 2-25 years until trial. Headshake.
Is this still Texas? Is this still the United States.
I go out my front door in the morning and it looks the same. If I turn on TV I know it’s not. If I read the news (on the web) I see little flickers of the US buried under dozens of layers of lies and propaganda.
God Help US.
God Bless Texas again.
Not much posted anymore, but think of it often, the longer it goes on the more injustice.
The injustices and persecutions in this case will end when Trump is inaugurated and replaces the demonic Obama appointees in the DOJ, BATF and other federal agencies and replaces them with honest men/women who will expose the corruption/injustices involved in this case.
The time of reckoning is fast approaching.
When this monstrosity finally gets to trial NONE of the defendants will be convicted of ANYTHING.
True — which is why Reyna keeps delaying things. This jerk & his fellow statist criminals will be wishing they had it as easy as Mike Nifong of Duke Lacrosse case infamy.
So called bad-ass drug dealing bikers and their b*tches are still whining about ass burn? What a bunch of pathetic moaners.
“Is this still Texas? “
I am not a Texan, but I’ve spent time there. And from what I’ve seen and read, yes, this is still Texas! And it isn’t good. Somewhere woven in between the lines of bravado all Texans seem to have, there is a thread to your “justice system!” The truth of the matter is, law enforcement in Texas is in the dark ages of the dust bowl. The law and it’s application there has never grown from the “good old boy system” from the 1920’s, and you all should be ashamed of it. Waco is your perennial $hit hole city, with Austin coming in a close second. So how about you all, or is it y’all, grow up and be the state you claim to be. Waco is simply Chicago with cow $hit.
“So called bad-ass drug dealing bikers and their b*tches are still whining about ass burn? What a bunch of pathetic moaners.”
So I take it the US Constitution is “optional reading” for you. You go along with the killing and imprisoning those you “don’t like” with out due process? Wow, why don’t you move to North Korea, you will fit right in!
Yes, everything you said. "Dark Ages" in being overly generous. Law exists in Texas, but not justice.
It's said that everything is bigger in Texas and that goes doubly for the greed and stupidity of our legislators, judges, bureaucrats, and LEOs.
It's optional for drug-dealing gang members, who like to do bad sh*t to others, but moan and whine all over the internet when karma catches up with them.
Sure missed the “Police Authorization To Administer What They Believe Is Karma” section of the US constitution.
Chicago is nicer.
I’m puzzled why, if the narsty bikers that ride around in the open are this evil, it is supposed to take a stunt like this to do something about it. Why did they not get forced to cease to exist ages ago because of all the OTHER things they have been accused of. Even our resident jackboot thinks this affair is only a karmic nuisance.
But of course there is a section in the constitution that grants criminal gangs the right to deal drugs and murder people they don't like.
Oh wait. It's you again. Well you're crazy anyway.
The way the government is supposed to deal with alleged menaces isn’t like what’s playing out in Waco here, jackboot. This is a stunt show and will fail.
Oh, and to return the ad hominem, you’re a stunt show too and will fail.
“It’s optional for drug-dealing gang members, who like to do bad sh*t to others, but moan and whine all over the internet when karma catches up with them.”
Really? I don’t recall anyone in the Waco business being charged with any crimes relating to drugs? Some of the people who are now suing today don’t appear to be of that sort. One woman was unable to pick up an award given herby the City of Whacko for her public service because she was incarcerated. ALL of the one hundred plus people who were arrested in a flock and incarcerated under a single, as yet substantiated charge deserve to have all of us know the TRUTH about their actions at Twin Peaks. I’d offer that the person who needs to come clean is Abel Reyna, but it looks as though he’s got his balls pinched here and is going to try and run out the clock. But more importantly, I am offended by what passes for a justice system in Texas. The charges against Tom DeLay and your former governor are shining examples of the perfidy of your District Attorneys or whatever the hell you call them. Ronnie Earle and that old drunken bitch that sued Rick Perry need to do some serious jail time, but they don’t because of the “good old boy” subterfuge you pass of as a “justice system.” Maybe what you need is similar treatment just so you can see how it all “works.” I just imagine a couple of months in the slammer would have a profound affect on your ideas about “Texas Justice!”
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