Posted on 05/19/2015 5:24:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Bandidos motorcycle gang has a saying: “Cut one, we all bleed.”
It’s not clear who started the cutting, but there was plenty of bloodshed on Sunday when the Bandidos brutally clashed with members of several other bike gangs at a restaurant in Waco, Tex. A wild shootout in broad daylight left nine bikers dead, 18 wounded and at least 165 under arrest.
The confrontation began about noon at a Twin Peaks restaurant in a shopping center and quickly escalated from fisticuffs to all-out war, said Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, a police spokesman. At one point, as many as 30 gang members were shooting at one another in the restaurant’s parking lot. Police found more than 100 weapons and scores of shell casings.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I have a friend who participates in River Rides, Aspen Rides, these are rides where from what he tells me, hundreds of bikers get together and take a long ride in the spring, fall. It doesn’t sound like any kind of troublemaking at all and maybe even for a good cause.
As for Sturgis, all told, from 1994 to 2012, 141 persons have died, seems about all of them in bike accidents, coming and going and there. That comes out to around 7 or 8 a year. I know there are some wild hairpin turns there so if one is drunk, you can see what might happen.
“I do wonder how many involved in fist fights were killed & injured by police gunfire “
I read a book by an ATF agent who infiltrated the Mongols. Even if some were only in fist fights, I promise, you just to be a member they had done plenty and had it coming.
I do agree about that. I can safely leave a bar when they enter; my chances aren’t as good trying to leave Compton or the Green in Chitown safely after making a wrong turn. Although, I know with some bike gangs that if I was the wrong color, I might not be able to leave that same bar intact. In that aspect as well, they are similar to urban gangs.
Ooops. Looks like that first B&W pic was of Oakland, not E 3rd St in Manhattan.
According to this account, everyone who was killed was killed by police.
The Mongols are bad news, they had a heavy presence in So Cal when I was there. I had a friend that literally (and I know how to use the word literally) got the sh** kicked out of him for opening the door for a Mongols ol’ lady and he took offense to him glancing at her rear. They never travel alone, even when they just want to go to the store, so there were two others to help. To easy to get picked off by rival gangs if riding solo.
SWAT. That's who won.
I saw this yesterday. This guy says all of them were shot by police.
And no, it's not my blog. I never heard of it until yesterday. I just thought the information was important enough to pass along to people.
Step back and let the scum kill one another, then clean up the debris. A good strategy for dealing with undesirables.
” just to be a member they had done plenty and had it coming”
I’m sure you’re right. But the point is, the police aren’t legally allowed to shoot fish in a barrel, and that kinda sounds like what happened.
---in the past there have been a few murders and once a three shot "suicide" but most fatalities are vehicular---
It may be that Falco fellow; interestingly he’s mentioned in the comments at that “Aging Rebel” article that was posted:
“I just heard Ashley Wyatt speaking as Charles Falco say he’s been in Waco for a month before this incident on the CNN report. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/us/texas-biker-gang-brawl-shooting/ “ - per website posted elsewhere, thanks to that poster: http://www.agingrebel.com/12873/comment-page-3#comment-4344531
So Falco was in Waco a month before this stuff happened??
Thanks, interesting link. We will see how the story shakes out.
For anyone interested, here’s a short (15-min) documentary on the Hells Angels on E 3rd St in New York City. It was shot in the early 1970s I believe.
Hells Angels Forever, NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5nOs8qshM&feature=youtu.be
OK, I’ll bite on the literally. So you are saying that fecal matter came out of your friend during the beatdown, right?
Yeah, I also despise how Hollywood likes to romanticize these kinds of violent, loathesome thugs and cretins. I still frankly even bristle whenever I see things like the old “Bonnie and Clyde” film with Warren Beatty. Even though its a well-made and beautifully filmed movie, the whole glamorization of some truly horrid people who did truly horrid things never fails to really get under my skin.
Unfortunately, that is what happened. Adding insult to injury, if you will. Lost a tooth, fractured orbital, two broken ribs and some internal bruising from the kicks to the gut.
And if you extend it to all media, you can include the 60s radicals and Che.
From Texas knife law:
Illegal knife” means a:
(A) knife with a blade over five and one-half inches;
(B) hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown;
(C) dagger, including but not limited to a dirk, stiletto, and poniard;
(D) bowie knife;
(E) sword; or
(F) spear
Snappy salute of respect for both your dad and Detective Morgan.
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