Posted on 05/21/2015 11:52:56 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Police in Waco, Texas, have sharply revised downward the number of weapons seized after a deadly brawl in a shopping center parking lot that left nine people dead, 18 wounded and 177 facing criminal charges of engaging in an organized criminal activity..
Police said earlier this week they expected to recover 1,000 weapons but now put the number at about 320.
Snip-- The weapons recovered include 118 handguns, 157 knives and 43 others, which includes brass knuckles and chains. Some weapons had been quickly stashed -- under seat cushions and even in a toilet. Police also said an AK-47 assault rifle was recovered.
Swanton blamed the complexity of the crime scene for some of the confusion about the number of weapons.
On Sunday, members of five motorcycle gangs met at the Twin Peaks restaurant in a shopping center in Waco for what participants have said was a previously scheduled meeting to discuss common issues, such as pending motorcycle safety legislation.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The general style is western...
If you want to get snippy about it, it has Spanish roots, not some dumbass eastern elitist snuff bag.
I’m betting you are the recent product of out modern public education system.
Since the cops knew all about this in advance, they all had to be wearing their body cameras.
Where is the video?
So where is the video? Is it top secret?
So who's at fault for this report? My guess it's the typical over zealous MSM writer looking for front page news and quite possibly a Pulitzer...........
That’s an interesting theory. The Cossacks weren’t invited to they are definitely FBI under cover agents. Did they also plant the 118 guns that were recovered? Even for Texas that is a bit above average.
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>> “What were they doing at a gang meeting?” <<
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Always gotta twist things dontcha!
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For 1000 number, they apparently included nail clippers and likely sets of keys.
I'll bet you will - If not this year, then next. And if you do, I'll find me something to keep my ass from bumpin' the ground, meet you in Sturgis and buy you a beer. : )
“Are the Hell’s Angels and Bandidos clubs or gangs?”
They would probably both claim publicly to be clubs, with all the respectability and credibility that classification would give them.
Clever. The bad guys stand to gain respectability from associating with good guys, and the good guys may gain some measure of vicarious adrenaline, from associating with questionable guys.
Looks to me like that is how it works out, good, bad or indifferent.
Didn’t the Cossacks show up without an invite, start to come inside, when the fight started?
Maybe wives and families of the good guys (locked up with $high bails), will rethink having these meets with the bad guys.
“If you want to get snippy about it, it has Spanish roots, not some dumbass eastern elitist snuff bag.”
Actually the slouch hat has its roots in Europe, then carried over to the east coast of the U.S.
“I’m betting you are the recent product of out modern public education system.”
You lose.
I believe most of the guns were found inside saddlebags or pickups..
As with most brawls, (at least the ones I am familiar with) guns are generally a no-no. It is customary to use nucks, chains, or most commonly fists. Knives only for the Puerto Ricans..
My guess is that the gun play began with the uninvited.
The cops who were already on scene, called in SWAT, and SWAT likes to use it's toys. So they did. And that ended the brawl on a rather dismal note.
There may be one or two deaths associated with the brawl, if that, and the rest are the responsibility of the SWAT teams who reacted with too much force against a bunch of guys with jobs to go to the next day, some Abate reps, and a few macho types who were the target of the uninvited guests..
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So, you’re a WikiPedophile too!
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Poofter...
If you look at the hat, there is nothing European about it. It has Spain written all over it from the stitching to the size and materials.
But I only posted the photo link in response to your idiot assertion that Jessie “did not wear a hat”.
It’s telling though......of your general disposition, education and personality.
“Did they count all the steak and butter knives from the restaurant ?”
It was sarcasm of the police number of weapons
“Clubs....I guess you will never understand it....so there is really not much point...”
OK. I will try to use the term ‘club-killings’ instead of ‘gang-killings’ in the future. Thank you.
Now here is Cole Younger with European inspired hat..
and this is a slouch hat..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouch_hat#/media/File:Australian_Army_ceremonial_slouch_hat.png
“Sombreros, like the cowboy hats invented later, were designed in response to the demands of the physical environment. The concept of a broad-brimmed hat worn by a rider on horseback can be seen as far back as the Mongolian horsemen of the 13th century.[2] In hot, sunny climates hats evolved to have wide brims, which provided shade. The Spanish developed a flat-topped sombrero, which they brought to Mexico. It was modified by the vaquero into the round-crowned Mexican sombrero and poblano.[3]”
“and this is a slouch hat..”
Many forms of the slouch hat. But that is not the one I referred to.
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