There is still an open question about when the ATF arrived on scene. The biker grapevine claims they were there prior to the shootout. Statements by the LEO mouthpieces would lead one to believe they showed up after the event was over. In any case they are heavily involved now and anything they claim is automatically suspect.
The ATF self-described “official” Twitter account (@batf) stated they were present.
I Rted that statement several times to friends of mine. The account is gone. It has been replaced by a bogus account by same name. Old activation date, no tweets, 6 bogus followers.
And I tweeted this article to @WacoPolice (Sgt Swanton’s account) soon after the shootings took place:
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
Less than an hour after I did, the author’s website link disappeared. Got a 404 error message (it was still on a number of other sites in total) It later re-appeared on the author’s website with a different link (the above link).
I have a copy of the Google Cache version of the original article link showing it did exist and was removed.
Next day, @WacoPolice blocked me from their account. Along with that, my tweets concerning them disappeared. (that is normal when account is blocked)
This was not a local run operation.