That so few of the bikers arrested had prior criminal records tells you RIGHT THERE that they are not "real" bikers in the sense that so many of the "they got what they deserve" types think they are.
I have known over the years quite a few "real" biker-gang criminal-type bikers and wannabees, and can't think of a single one, not even close, who wouldn't have a criminal record. Not one -- they have ALL been busted a time or two or more. So if the majority of those arrested lack criminal records, it means that the cops arrested "fake" bad bikers. What is so disturbing is that so many -- myself included, at first -- see this as simply "let them shoot it out with each other and to hell with them."
This is very, very bad. It's a modern-day Reichstag prep.
In the seventies a high school friend lived next door to a couple that were Bandidos. I got to sort of know a dozen or so. They were for real outlaw bikers. Their officers had been busted for murder and they were not allowed to wear their “colors”. They all had big ovals on their vests where the fabric was new. The key was this, you could NEVER show fear. The whole point to their act was to elicit fear and if you did they did not respect you. 50 lbs ago I was pretty scrawny at about 150 but I would get right in their face and give as good as I got. They loved it. The other thing you never wanted to do was screw with them. They did not take that well. In the decades since I have found that I could not take life “on the edge” all the time. Like Coulter says of ISIS, if you don’t want what they are giving it is pretty easy to avoid. No one is forcing meth or whatever else on us and the criminals know we wouldn’t take it well if they tried to be more overt. As long as they are happy to hide in the dark they can get by but we wouldn’t take crap from them any more than we would a feral gummint run amok. They know Americans just want to be left alone to live our lives in as much peace as possible, as do they. Yamamoto’s “sleeping giant” can be roused by a number of events. Crap like Ludlow and Waco will do it just as surely as Pearl Harbor or the Alamo.