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.
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Where did you see the list of affiliations?
Was the Christian group on it?
my opening ‘am being Fair’
Perhaps there are 70 weapons left lying around the restaurant.
Pretend its the Crips and Bloods. That should make it go down easier.
I think it was an ambush by the Police looks like they set them up to be hit
may we be ‘fair’ ? Give America, the truth please. The truth stands ‘forever’! It is something was told ... Thanks Mom!
nothing left to do or doubt but don’t you and I know ‘the left’ will say we do not measure up ... and I’m still wondering ‘why’? cause it’s almost over now .... because of ‘the left’s lies’ ... people aren’t coming together for nothin’!
When police round up 170 suspects I have no doubt that a few innocent fish got swept up in the net. When you’ve got 9 bodies on the ground police often sweep up all the usual suspects and sort things out later.
ALL phones were confiscated.
From those who were there, no bikers killed bikers.
None of what we were first told is holding up and the story has become a chameleonic entity with a life of its own.
paper airplane ‘?’ ... ? ... Hold it in, please!
There were quite a few military and Christian MCs there, just like they’re there, *every single month*.
I have always thought it odd that these guys intentionally join what they call an outlaw club, then whine when they aren’t treated in full compliance with what they think are their legal rights.
The term “outlaw” is Anglo-Saxon and refers to someone placed outside the protection of the law so that he could be killed without penalty by anyone. If you want to designate yourself as an outlaw, accept the consequences.
Dust Bowl!
I’m a Rebel ... I accept my Fate! I’m an Outlaw!!!
Great how they arrest any and all bikers at Twin Peaks for the big rumble and kill at least 4 or 5 bikers, yet in Baltimore and Ferguson the rioters and looters don’t get arrested. The bikers should have been black.
Your Green Field are Gone! Hear Me?
On day 1, there was an extensive list posted which included several veteran/military/Christian groups.
Good luck finding that list, now.
So far, I’m getting “The story you were looking for” errors and nothing else.
The narrative has been ‘refined’.
Is she a real wife or property like most gals in biker clubs?
And some of the “weapons” were nail clippers. Not joking.
Something doesn’t smell right.
“I’d like him to “explain:” a lot of things about this whole matter. I don’t like biker gangs, but I also don’t like the fact that most of the dead were at the hands of the cops, while no LEOs were injured. We need to know the circumstances that lead to the deadly force use. From the disjointed press accounts, there seems to be some reason to suspect that the cops are not telling the truth about their actions.”
Many alleged freepers on another thread here yesterday were quite happy with the outcome, having chosen to believe everything they’d heard in the “news” — apparently because it had no direct political connection, and therefore the news must have been correct.
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