“There had been no melee for the 20 years.”
Are you talking about at the COC meeting or between the two warring gangs in general? Because there certainly had been melees between the Cossacks and Bandidos a lot more recently than that.
Sure, because “warring gangs” always have melees at high noon on Sundays in the middle of mall parking lots full of families going out to eat after church. Nope, sorry, can’t think of anything similar to that. Now, at midnight out in some back field away from spectators and the po-po, yeah, that’s more like it.