“Several bikers are denying that they were shooting at police”
Police can also shoot when you are trying to shoot someone else. Or beat then to death with a chain, stab them, etc,,,,
They deserved what they got,,,,,
There seems to be a lot of rumors swirling around, but it seems like there are some generally agreed on events. At one point, inside the restaurant (at the bathrooms?) some shoving occurred and it was taken outside. Some brawling occurred, and at one point it progressed to a knife fight.
From that point on, what happened is an unknown. Supposedly someone pulled out a gun, started shooting, and officers started shooting. Being that there was 20+ officers there, including a SWAT team, once the shots started, anyone moving towards anyone would be a target - just the nature of the beast when that many bodies are involved. Even raising a hand could be seen as a threat.
More confusing are the statements from the management company that owns the restaurant; their statement reads to me as some rather shocked owners wondering just what the heck is going on and they have scant information about their business, and almost none about contacts from the parent company to the franchise restaurant.
Good for all of us is that they're going to be spending a pretty penny to try to figure out exactly what happened, if for no other reason than to mitigate their exposure to the ensuing lawsuits. And I'd expect there'd be a number of them.
I think one really key question that should be answered is: Would there have been any shooting if LEO hadn't been staged outside waiting for trouble?