The Man and the Signal that Triggered the Waco Shooting

Motorcycle Profiling Project ^ | 8/6/2015 | Motorcycle Profiling Project

[SaxxonWoods]

Needs work.

[PA Engineer]

Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.

[Earl43P]

3 taps of the left palm (or 3 fingers) to the helmet is a widely-used signal that motorcyclists use to indicate that police are in the path ahead.

Equivalent to flashing your high beams at oncoming traffic to warn of a speed trap ahead of them.

[Finny]

Your scenario is iffy at best, DesertRhino, for a lot of reasons. Granted the "signal" may or may not have been a signal, but FACTS are that he was standing there watching for a long time, and if you read the article, it says what he did afterward -- talked with LE for awhile, disappeared into Don Carlos and never reappeared. Sure -- a "biker gang lookout" would have done that??? Rii--iii--ght.

I suppose it -could- be one of those types that sees the fighting beginning and slaps them selves in the head in disbelief. Kinda weird to me, but a few people do that.

Yeah. Right. *rolls eyes*

[Finny]

3 taps of the left palm (or 3 fingers) to the helmet is a widely-used signal that motorcyclists use to indicate that police are in the path ahead.

Why signal this warning at that time and that place???

Excuse me, but from everything I've been able to find, and it has been quite a lot (I've invested many, many hours reading and digging outside of FR), ONLY A BLIND MORON BIKER would have needed a signal to tell him cops were present. There were plainly marked police cars all over the place, according to the cops themselves!

[wastoute]

And those eyewitnesses are to be believed even if the video shows otherwise...

[Boogieman]

The videos of the shooting haven’t been released yet, so you really have no idea if the video shows otherwise or not.

[wastoute]

These folks seem to be discussing something. I am pretty sure it is video.

[Boogieman]

You haven’t been following this story much have you?

What they are discussing is a video from the interior of one of the restaurants. It does not actually show the shooting in the parking lot.

[veracious]

Pretty interesting; sure looks like this unknown person is is signaling the start of the _activities_.

[X-spurt]

Obviously ‘ol copy n paste’ hasn’t had much previous knowledge of Houston’s finest. They have a long history of being often worse than the outlaws.

[TexasGator]

[TexasGator]

“and if you read the article, it says what he did afterward — talked with LE for awhile,”

LOL! He had a three second across the street confrontation with a cop!