How long can the Waco Police “hold” on trumped up charges 170 people without having huge numbers of false arrest charges brought against them once sanity return?
170 people charged with capital murder with 1 million dollar bail? With no real evidence tied to 90+% of them. Totally Nuts.
They are calling it a RICO conspiracy. Across group of people who belong to 5 different bike clubs.
And one of the criminal biker clubs in the FBI bulletin on which they base this was the “Black widow” Motor Cycle Club. It was from a Clint Eastwood movie, “Every which Way but Loose”. IT IS NOT A REAL BIKER CLUB. Headshake.
At this point, I think the Waco DAs are trying to elicit deals with the 170: Reduction of bail from one million to one thousand, return of property (bikes and trucks but NOT cell phones/cameras) in return for pledging never to sue the Waco PD for a raft of charges.
It won’t work. Some of those old curmudgeons just won’t sign it. The truth will come out.
Anyone who believes that this is about a motorcycle club is stupider than an Obama voter. It is the Government, through its agent, the police, testing the waters as to what the public will believe and tolerate. The motorcycle club was used as the guinea pig because motorcycle clubs are relatively easy to demonize. And the public perception of them is that they are not nice people. But this was just a test. It will be used in earnest against the Tea Party, Second Amendment Advocates and Supporters, and Christians to name a few.
And you can bet your ass that if the police had any video[s] or witnesses that put them in a good light, they would have flooded the media outlets with them less that 12 hours after it happened.
Are they also going to call Mohammad cartoon protestors RICO violators too? Lord knows authorities do not want to protect freedom of speech and get caught up in a fight like this. It seems to me bikers were meeting and authorities shot both sides without caring who was what
But everybody saw them right there on teevee! (If they didn't see the movie in theaters).
Sheesh!