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The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted?
New York Times ^ | 6/15/2023 | Mark Binelli

Posted on 07/17/2023 5:51:32 PM PDT by Elderberry

How 177 arrests led to no convictions — a tangled, seven-year tale of prosecutorial hubris and tenacious defense.

Citing pending civil lawsuits, Reyna declined to speak on the record for this article, but he vigorously denied all the charges made in the affidavits secured by Broden, and he disputed The Tribune-Herald’s characterization of his actions. In the end, his primary wasn’t even close: Johnson defeated him by nearly 20 points. Before his term ended, Reyna would dismiss all but 24 of the bikers’ cases, with Johnson dismissing the final two dozen in April 2019. Carrizal was the only biker to go to trial. Over 130 civil rights lawsuits are still pending against Reyna, the city and county and law-enforcement officers involved in the arrests. But years after a fight that left people dead, wounded, paralyzed and fleeing in terror, nobody at all has been convicted of any crime.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: banglist; biker; donutwatch; reyna; texas; waco
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To: kiryandil

“ The turd Reyna STILL hasn’t flushed.”
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And I wonder what “Red Boots” is up to nowadays.


21 posted on 07/17/2023 7:06:43 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: Elderberry

Because the police investigate themselves?


22 posted on 07/17/2023 7:22:55 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: bgill
Shhh, don’t tell him.

Him or her? I initially thought him, but later had my doubts. In any event, I'll honor the request to not ping that one to these threads. I think maybe (to use current woke pronouns) they ducked out of the debate upon legal advice.

23 posted on 07/17/2023 7:39:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ConservativeMind

As with others, the whole thing smelled to me from the outset. Early on, I recall some scuttlebutt to that effect (LEO shooters, can’t recall details) and thinking, “If that’s true, then no one will be convicted.”

Here we are.


24 posted on 07/17/2023 8:23:06 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Elderberry

The Slimes might also ask:
“Nine killed every weekend for the past 10 years in Chicago jungles, why no convictions?”


25 posted on 07/17/2023 8:53:05 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: maddog55
The cops did the majority of the shooting.

If not all of it, which explains the apparent lack of marksmanship.

26 posted on 07/17/2023 9:17:51 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Elderberry

Thanks Much for update, Been quite a Ride👍


27 posted on 07/17/2023 9:21:35 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: zeugma

The shootings weren’t all by the cops. A couple were by their informants.


28 posted on 07/17/2023 10:44:29 PM PDT by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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