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What Waco Police Still Won't Reveal About the Biker-Gang Shootout
The Atlantic ^ | June 4, 2015 | Conor Friedersdorf

Posted on 06/04/2015 6:36:16 AM PDT by don-o

As the Texas shootout that killed 9 motorcyclists fades from national headlines, local newspapers and a few larger media organizations have broken a series of small stories that prompted one alert Houston Press journalist to predict,“in the coming years, the Waco authorities' handling of the Twin Peaks biker gang shootout will become a textbook example of how not to handle an emergency situation.”

Two weeks later, Waco authorities still aren’t telling how many of the dead bikers were shot by police officers, how many cops fired their weapons, or how many total rounds they discharged.

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Little wonder: holding upwards of 160 bikers on a blanket bond of $1 million was self-evidently excessive. An attorney for one of the arrestees has filed a complaint against the justice of the peace who set the bond, the Waco Tribune reports, alleging that he “violated several judicial ethical canons,” including by telling the local newspaper, “I think it is important to send a message. We had nine people killed in our community. These people just came in, and most of them were from out of town.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; nifongism; overcharged; waco; wacobikers; wacobikerscoverup; wacoshootout
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To: wastoute
If the ATF was actually anywhere near this it is much bigger than Watergate

It's more dead than at Kent State. When do the songs hit the radio?

21 posted on 06/04/2015 8:43:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: ctdonath2
That the DA et al have, instead, clammed up and are saying as little as possible - and what they are saying is profoundly stupid - is putting this story squarely in the implied “other” category opposing your “most of the latest” comment. Isn’t helping that their behavior strongly resembles notable police/legal behaviors in the same city some 22 years ago - an event which was hardly “fiction”.

Their reluctance to release even the names of the dead bikers makes me wonder if they didn't screw up and shoot one of their own.

22 posted on 06/04/2015 8:49:09 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

“Their reluctance to release even the names of the dead bikers makes me wonder if they didn’t screw up and shoot one of their own.”

These names were released over two weeks ago.


http://www.kcentv.com/story/29103997/list-of-bikers-killed-during-brawl-released

The names of the nine bikers killed during the brawl at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco have been released by a McLennan County justice of the peace.The following were killed during the incident. 

Each person was killed by gunshot wounds from areas ranging from the head to the chest. 

Their deaths are all listed as a homicide.

Richard Matthew Jordan II, 31
Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, 65
Charles Wayne Russell, 46
Daniel Raymond Boyett, 44
Wayne Lee Campbell, 43
Jacob Lee Rhyne, 39
Richard Vincent Kirshner, Jr., 47
Manuel Issac Rodriguez, 40
Matthew Mark Smith, 27
Seven people remain hospitalized but are said to be in stable condition, according to Waco police.


23 posted on 06/04/2015 9:08:20 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

OK.


24 posted on 06/04/2015 9:11:00 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: don-o

The longer this goes on, the bigger the lawsuits are going to be. I think the taxpayers of WACO are going to take a HUGE hit over it.


25 posted on 06/04/2015 9:14:28 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: dware

Have you seen or heard of a list of the names and ages of the dead?


26 posted on 06/04/2015 9:25:55 AM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: houeto
Have you seen or heard of a list of the names and ages of the dead?

I haven't.

27 posted on 06/04/2015 9:49:07 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: dware

http://heavy.com/news/2015/05/waco-texas-biker-motorcycle-gang-club-shootout-shooting-dead-deaths-victims-names-identified-killed-police-bandidos-cossacks-who-are-victims-of-waco-biker-gang-shootout/

...Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, 65, died of gunshot wounds of the head and trunk.

Jacob Lee Rhyne, 39, died of gunshot wounds to the neck.

Richard Vincent Kirshner, Jr., 47, died of gunshot wounds but the report did not specify where he was shot.

Richard Matthew Jordan, III, 31, died of gunshot wounds to the head.

Wayne Lee Campbell, 43, died of gunshot wounds to the head and trunk.

Daniel Raymond Boyett, 44, died of gunshot wounds to the head.

Matthew Mark Smith, 27, died of gunshot wounds to the trunk

Manuel Issac Rodriguez, 40, died of gunshot wounds but the report did not specify where he was shot.

And Charles Wayne Russell, 46, died of gunshot wounds to the chest...


28 posted on 06/04/2015 9:54:32 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: don-o

In one of the photos there was a person wearing an AFT jacket. I would have to assume he was indeed an ATF agent. IMHO the ATF has played a big role in this thing, probably through providing “intelligence”. I think the ATF will throw the local authorities under the bus when it come down to it.


29 posted on 06/04/2015 10:21:10 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: RedElement
I must say, if the Atlantic is “for it”, I am “agin it”.

Even a blind hog can find a nut, and even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The Atlantic has this much right: this was a massacre, and a railroad of mostly innocent people, and the police are trying to hush it up.

30 posted on 06/04/2015 3:07:51 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: RedElement
I must say, if the Atlantic is “for it”, I am “agin it”.

Even a blind hog can find a nut, and even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The Atlantic has this much right: this was a massacre, and a railroad of mostly innocent people, and the police are trying to hush it up.

31 posted on 06/04/2015 3:07:52 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: backwoods-engineer

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It isn’t often but once in a while the left and the search for the truth does line up together.

This is one of those few times.

No one wants to be on the receiving end of a corrupt armed force employed by the people regardless of their political bent.


32 posted on 06/05/2015 10:15:00 AM PDT by Boomer (America; love it or leave it. It isn't just a bumper sticker.)
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