[Finny]

Here’s a question for you: If a group of two hundred Black Panthers walked on to the premises of your local predominantly white restaurant while you were having lunch there with your family, took up strategic positions in the restaurant and parking lot, then pulled guns and started waving them around and firing them, what would you expect the police to do?

I would expect the police to leave alone the folks there having lunch with their families, and to focus their arrest and kill efforts on the Black Panthers.

I have a question for you. If only one third of the so-called "criminal gang members" arrested and held on million-dollar bail, not to mention I think less than half of the dead, had prior arrest records (let alone actual criminal convictions), does that mean the cops are REALLY stupid and inept, or does it mean that the "criminal gang members" AKA "bikers" are really intelligent and wily?

It has to be one of the two -- remember these hardened killer "criminal gang bikers" were wearing patches and signs proudly proclaiming their status as bikers, according to the MSM/LEO meme. HOW IS IT that even with patches on their backs broadcasting their criminal intent, that up until May 17, a full TWO THIRDS of these criminals had managed to evade any kind of arrest?

Were the cops so lame that they couldn't catch them in the act over the years they've been in Texas, even when said "criminals" wore neon signs identifying themselves?

Or did the cops arrest and punish a bunch of innocent PATRIOTS exercising their right to free-association?

[eastexsteve]

Finny wrote:
I would expect the police to leave alone the folks there having lunch with their families, and to focus their arrest and kill efforts on the Black Panthers.
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Which, is apparently what the police at Waco did with the bikers.

Finny then wrote:
I have a question for you. If only one third of the so-called “criminal gang members” arrested and held on million-dollar bail, not to mention I think less than half of the dead, had prior arrest records (let alone actual criminal convictions), does that mean the cops are REALLY stupid and inept, or does it mean that the “criminal gang members” AKA “bikers” are really intelligent and wily?
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And, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? What it means is they had rights that prevented them from being apprehended or dealt with up to this point.

Finny then wrote:
HOW IS IT that even with patches on their backs broadcasting their criminal intent, that up until May 17, a full TWO THIRDS of these criminals had managed to evade any kind of arrest?
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Because they hadn’t been observed committing any crimes. But, as you stated earlier, some of them had committed crimes, and were prosecuted for these crimes.

Finny then wrote:
Or did the cops arrest and punish a bunch of innocent PATRIOTS exercising their right to free-association?
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The cops were forced to deal with a bunch of habitual lawbreakers that were in the process of committing several felonies and endangering innocent people. “Patriots” my a$$! The bikers were no different than a bunch of gang-banger drive-by shooters. It was incredibly lucky that innocent bystanders weren’t injured or killed.