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.
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Well I guess it must piss you off that the cops screwed up so badly then - look how many bikers they left alive.
Personally, I think it is foolish to go out UNarmed.
“It was a regularly scheduled meeting of the Confederation of Clubs.”
LOL. The Texas Coalition of Clubs and Independents is run by the 1%’ers. The chairman and several officers are Banditos.
The agenda was to sort out turf issues. Sad when the good bikers have to answer to the Banditos on what they wear and where they ride.
After you, sir.
” If I were an upstanding biker I would be doing what I could to disassociate myself from the criminal element.”
What would you do? Wear a three piece suit??? Carry a briefcase?
“The problem is that the good guys are being charged, and lumped with the bad guys.”
That is a problem when you go to a gang meeting and get caught in the middle of a gang shoot-out.
Now maybe they won’t be so eager to associate with the gangs.
Not at all
I'm as pro-cop as they get, and I think convicted murderers should receive exemplary punishment (i.e. live burial) both to exact vengeance and to deter others, but bikers have generally struck me as annoyances rather than degenerate killers. Real life isn't some Sons of Anarchy episode. I'm very suspicious of the police (thin blue line syndrome) and media (liberal anti-white syndrome) accounts so far.
The figured out that 680 of the weapons were police “drop downs”.
What "trappings" are those?
I wish there was a way to quickly sort the good from the bad but when the good purposely look like, dress like, and show up at the same places as the bad, what else can the police do when you have 200 possible suspects? The only alternative as I see it is to let everyone go and try and track down the bad guys later.
Him: If I were an upstanding biker I would be doing what I could to disassociate myself from the criminal element.
You: What would you do? Wear a three piece suit??? Carry a briefcase?
1. I would not be defending the MC gangs and saying they should be respected.
2. I would not be going to their ‘meetings’.
3. I would condemn their criminal behavior.
Stop the propaganda.
Stop the propaganda.
Actually I have known several “Bandito’s” in my days.......
Secondly.....I am very offended by your use of the term ...”gangs”...
Clubs do group meetings all the time, generally for the purposes of political activism regarding proposed legislation.
These “gangs” as you refer to them are just as entitled to their rights as you are.
I’d say witnessing the Gospel of Christ.
Luk 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Luk 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Or, they could do quick background checks on each one and release him if he has a clean record and/or no outstanding warrants.
It certainly would not take 4 days to do that 170 times.
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