Posted on 05/20/2015 8:39:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A fight that escalated to gunfire between rival biker gangs in a Waco, Texas, restaurant parking lot today left nine people dead, police said.
Eighteen people were taken from the scene to hospitals, mostly for gunshot and stab wounds, Waco Police Sgt. Patrick Swanton said at a news conference. Everyone involved was a gang member, police said.
The violence began as a fight between "criminal biker gangs" at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in the Central Texas Market Place early this afternoon, Swanton said. The fight then spilled into the parking lot where gang members fired at each other, Swanton said.
"As that fight progressed, it progressed very rapidly from hands and feet as weapons to chains," he said. "My understanding a club was involved and knives were involved."
Officers were at the scene when the shooting started, police said, and some officers fired at the bikers. No officers were injured, police said.
Witnesses reported hearing as many as 100 rounds fired from 30 guns.
Police closed the entire Central Texas Market Place shopping area, saying that there was a danger of more violence.
"It is still not totally secure because of the intel that we're getting of individuals wanting to do some payback," he said.
Over the past few months, he says they were aware of rival biker gangs causing issues at the Twin Peaks restaurant.
"We have attempted to work with the local management of Twin Peaks to get that cut back to no avail," he said. "They have not been of much assistance to us."
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170 in jail with million dollar bonds, all their vehicles - trucks, cars and motorcycles, confiscated under civil forfeiture procedure. When the Waco PD auctions those off, they won’t need any budget increases for a couple of years.
There weren't supposed to be an survivors.
That’s it!
They’re not dead, just laying low.
“When they came for the bikers, I was glad. I wasn’t a biker, I hated bikers.”
Folks, this is just the beginning.
Check your mail.
I’m trying to imagine the cowboy in the middle jumping a half dozen fences after a burglar or chasing someone in shape at a full run...
I’m not seeing it.
You can’t outrun a 5.56mm unless you can run 3,500 FPS.
A lot easier than chasing them.
He was probably ordered to go after the Christian ministry MCs.
Being able to do all that used to be part of being a cop. Apparently that isn’t the case anymore.
Sure will be interesting when they release who shot who.
Of course it being broad day light, the cop shooters already know how many shot and dropped people onto the concrete.
“The cops could have checked and cleared them — kicked their hands away from their torsos etc,”
The bikers know the drill. Nine dead. You put your hands out to show no weapons.
What hasn’t been clarified is out of the 9, how many, if any, were killed by the police.
“Bikers with loud mufflers deserve death?”
He didn’t say they deserved death.
OTOH, bikers with loud mufflers deserve to receive some sort of corporal punishment.
“, but we got a lot shot people and dead bodies.”
“We”?
Which gang do you belong to?
Referring to the dead bikers, he said “Hope these guys were the ones with the loudest mufflers.”
Even you can extrapolate his meaning.
He expressed a hope that the dead bikers were also the ones with the loudest mufflers.
Don’t try and game me.
That was his plain and clear meaning.
Interesting.
When muslim terrorists kill, we condemn the muslim non-terrorists for NOT condemning the terrorism.
But the ‘good’ bikers are defending the motorcycle gangs?
Go figure...
Doesn’t matter to me who took them down...their own or the police. Anytime the police remove people who demonstrate a disregard to peace and the sanctity of human life from the street, either temporarily, jail, or permanently, death, I view it as a success!
“He expressed a hope that the dead bikers were also the ones with the loudest mufflers.”
They were already dead. You can’t wish someone dead when they are already dead ...
Yeah...on another thread last night....
all shot buy the cops...head shots also.
I guess this is a "Jade Helmet Waco" thingy.
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