The biker uniform indicates, at least in the eyes of most everybody else, that the wearer is violent and dangerous.
Since the wearers know this, if they did not wish to be viewed as violent and dangerous, they’d change their attire to something that did not project this image.
Since they cling to that image, it’s perfectly obvious that’s how they want to be seen.
Fine, that’s their privilege. But the flip side of being able to get a charge out of intimidating others is that those others just don’t get very upset when your civil rights are violated.
Not saying they’re right to feel that way, just that they do.
True enough. See Niemoeller. Your turn in the barrel may come, someday.
In the Twin Peaks case, the stigma is more difficult to attach to those members who were in plain clothes.