Posted on 09/12/2019 1:02:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A group of local motorcyclists say Fresno anti-gang officers overreacted in a raid on their clubhouse Saturday, but a sheriff’s spokesman said the officers had no choice after an armed Hells Angel ran and hid inside the building.
“It was crazy, bro,” said Jay Upton, vice president of the Savage Assassins. “We were racially profiled.” Upton said he is heavily tattoed, and “my appearance sometimes doesn’t accommodate people.”
The sheriff’s spokesman, Tony Botti, said there were two armed Hells Angels at the event and dismissed the idea that members of the MAGEC gang unit should have let club members eject the fleeing suspect, identified as Rey Rodriguez, 32, of Fresno, instead of serving a warrant and searching the property.
Rodriguez was arrested on charges of being an armed gang member. The other man identified as an Angel, Stephen Meza, 58, of Tulare, was arrested on the same charge as well as carrying a stolen gun. Rodriguez and four others at the party were cited for obstructing an investigation and one person was held on an outstanding DUI warrant.
Upton said the Savage Assassins staged an end of summer event that began Saturday afternoon at their clubhouse on Belmont Avenue east of First Street. A barbecue, cold drinks and a wet T-shirt contest were on the schedule.
Upton said he noted a heavy law enforcement presence in the area early in the day, but said he talked the event over with at least one sheriff’s sergeant and it appeared there was a mutual understanding: No alcohol was being sold, only a plate of food.
Things went south when a MAGEC detective reported seeing that Rodriguez was armed. Confronted, Rodriguez fled inside a steel fence and others inside locked the gate.
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“Upton said Christian biker groups were also at the event.”
LOL
What? No drugs?
These guys are posers.
Savage Assassins, Hell’s Angels and a Christian Motorcycle group.
I’ll bet the bar-b-que was out of this world.
Clowns for sure, Savage Assassins? But another article suggests they are affiliated with the HA’s.
Probably a very good place to evangelize. If you ride in on a Harley, you might get someone to listen to the gospel who would never listen any other way.
There are Christian bike groups. I know of one biker group that has its own Christian Church. When I see a group of bikers on the road, I think ‘Patriots.’ So many of our bikers are military veterans.
Given your track record on this type of thing you may want to exercise your right to remain silent.
But you won’t.
L
Well, until the wet T-shirt contest starts, anyway.
The bikers were being set up for another Twin Peaks.
TG Consumate Biker hater
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