He was willing to kill, and have his Bandido buddies punish a good guy, but he wasn’t willing to fight the good guy alone, man to man.
If the LEOs play their cards right, this could be a heck of an opportunity to do a lot of far reaching damage to those gangs and your post highlights the crux of their Achilles heel. Deep down, they are actually insecure, non-confident perpetual adolescents who can only find and exercise any cajones in the presence and backing of a collective. I saw a lot of those characters when they were being moved around & processed at the Convention Center - and I saw fear in the faces and body language of some. Unmistakable to me. That's right, like that part in the Dark Knight movie when the Joker says "I know a squealer when I see one....", there's gonna be some there. Get some of those losers segregated and lean on them and they'll fold like a tent, guaranteed. If they are facing a long stretch in the clink, perhaps life, they'll turn chicken. There are a number of hardboiled country boy LEOs working in that county that could make it happen.
Well, that Bandido knew that I could take him although I was still in high school, in fact I wouldn’t have let him move in if that had been in doubt, but at the main Bandido house about a half mile from my apartment, there were some real tough guys mixed in with the lot, and as a whole, I observed that they were like black groups, they have a mob mentality, which means that a lot of these guys who think they can drink with them in a bar, don’t realize how outlaw bikers can suddenly all jump on someone that they seemingly liked for hours, or even days.
I guess that was the core of the early, original Bandidos, that I knew, it was in Houston.