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Wife of biker inmate: Some arrested in Texas are innocent
AP ^ | May 20, 2015 | Emily Schmall

Posted on 05/20/2015 10:10:09 AM PDT by bgill

Bullets ricocheted around the parking lot of Twin Peaks, the Waco restaurant where a motorcycle gang shootout left nine dead, just minutes after Theron Rhoten pulled in on his vintage Harley chopper for a regional motorcycle club meeting, according to Rhoten’s wife. Katie Rhoten told The Associated Press that her husband ran for cover and was later arrested, along with antique motorcycle enthusiast friends and other “nonviolent, noncriminal people.” Authorities swept up around 170 bikers who had descended on the restaurant for what one club member described as a gathering to discuss laws protecting motorcycle riders.... McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara and Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton declined to comment Tuesday on allegations that innocent bikers were arrested.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: copcycle; motorcyclegangs; shooting; waco
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To: no-to-illegals

LOL!


141 posted on 05/20/2015 11:47:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: FR_addict

Agree with all your points.

Five minutes ago the TV was reporting over 1000 weapons were found. How many of those are the restaurant’s butter knives?


142 posted on 05/20/2015 11:47:59 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: WayneS
I got that vibe, too. Probably not the only one...

Agents provocateur?

143 posted on 05/20/2015 11:48:01 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Okay. NOW you’re repeating yourself.

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... repeating yourself

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... repeating yourself...


144 posted on 05/20/2015 11:48:31 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS

On the Lake ... There are a thousand bales of ‘cotton’ ... Born upon these broken ways! Carry On! Take the Winter Walk!


145 posted on 05/20/2015 11:49:07 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

“That some of the clubs involved are 1%”

. . . means a sane, responsible person should stay away, regardless of “common concerns.”

When you apply for a security clearance, there is a list of organizations you must not be associated with. Sitting around regularly with the Communist Party for talks about “common concerns” would rightly have been seen as association.


146 posted on 05/20/2015 11:49:43 AM PDT by AMDG&BVMH
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To: no-to-illegals

I hate to tell you, guy, but you’ve ruined 1,000 bales of perfectly good cotton.


147 posted on 05/20/2015 11:50:09 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Shush ... They know not ... Shush ... Mama Stand Beyond The Open Window ... We Touch ... Smile ....


148 posted on 05/20/2015 11:50:57 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: bgill

ye are known by the company ye keepeth (elpadre-ism)


149 posted on 05/20/2015 11:51:11 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: WayneS

A Train Comes Everyday ... This is my opening prayer ...


150 posted on 05/20/2015 11:52:20 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: AMDG&BVMH

Good post...thanks.


151 posted on 05/20/2015 11:52:29 AM PDT by caww
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To: AMDG&BVMH
But I don;t have any common concerns with members of the communist party - unless some of them ride motorcycles and then we may have common concerns in that one specific area.
152 posted on 05/20/2015 11:53:01 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: no-to-illegals

But if your cotton is in the lake you need a crane, not a train.


153 posted on 05/20/2015 11:53:33 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS

Veterans ...??? Cause it is an opening prayer ....


154 posted on 05/20/2015 11:54:06 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: WayneS

“By the way, do you have a source for the claim that the Cossacks are an H.A. affiliate? I have not heard that before.”

Here: Citing police sources in Waco, Cook says he understands the shootout started because a smaller gang called the Cossacks — backed by the Angels — challenged the Bandidos for control of Texas. Several other bike gangs might have joined the battle, too, angry over recent killings by Bandidos members.

“My perception is that the Cossacks have been flirting, if you will, with Hell’s Angles,” Cook said. “If I’m a Bandido, my immediate reaction is: ‘These guys are going to try to make a move and bring an international gang into our state, which is going to cause a war.’”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/18/how-the-bandidos-became-americas-most-feared-biker-gang/

That is one place. Over the past 3-4 days I read it several places. Therefore I doubt it is far from being true.


155 posted on 05/20/2015 11:54:25 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Travis McGee

With that muzzie beard, he may have been getting confused at what group he was pretending to be at the moment.


156 posted on 05/20/2015 11:55:25 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: truth_seeker

Thanks.


157 posted on 05/20/2015 11:55:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS

You are a member of a 1%er club?


158 posted on 05/20/2015 11:55:39 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: bgill

Maybe some are innocent of the behavior at that incident, but likely a lot have other warrants outstanding! Check ‘em out, then let ‘em go or hold them as the case may be.


159 posted on 05/20/2015 11:56:11 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: bgill
Actually it's not unheard of for gangs to hide their weapons on site and may account for why the Restaurant Owner would not cooperate and let the police inside....not to mention those found on bikes and in the parking lot .
160 posted on 05/20/2015 11:56:13 AM PDT by caww
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