Posted on 06/01/2015 9:01:02 AM PDT by don-o
Photos on the Facebook page of a group called Free All The Waco Bikers appears to show police snipers on an apartment building rooftop, across the street from a Harley-Davidson dealership that was a hosting a memorial service for one of the bikers shot and killed outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco on May 17.
This is the second time in less than a week that snipers have been posted outside a Texas Harley Davidson dealership after the Waco incident.
The most recent sniper sighting occurred at the “fundraiser and celebration of life” for Jesse Rodriquez, a decorated Vietnam vet who was known to fellow bikers as “Mohawk,” and frequently did charity rides with his wife. The fundraiser was held at Geuene Harley Davidson in New Braunfels, south of Austin.
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Breitbart Texas used Google Maps to confirm that the apartment building shown in the photos is indeed directly across from the Harley dealership.
The second sniper incident was reported this past Saturday at Longhorn Harley Davidson in the southern Dallas suburb of Gran Prairie. CBSDFW.com reported that police positioned snipers outside the dealership during a motorcycle event. No incidents were reported.
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And there we have it. You KNOW who has “more information,” don’t you?
“more information,”
Lots of people — the workers at the Flying J, the bikers who were there, the police dispatch records which are public record, etc.
Who has it in their job description?
I>the authorities were testing the waters as to how far they could go to supress a group that they considered to be their enemy[ies], and what the public reaction to their cover story be, [would the public buy their story or not]. Their plan succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. From this point in time forward, they know how to deal effectively with any group they expect to be a thorn in their side.
Think of a certain RINO Republican that both you and I despised back in 2012 -- we were angry that so many had failed to do their due diligence on the guy, that so many just assumed he had certain qualities that, if they had done FOR THEMSELVES a modicum of digging and following where the truth led, would have known better. The same is true in this instance.
Again, FRiend and ally Rita, your posts only reveal that you haven't even taken the trouble to do the slightest bit of real reading, research, and digging yourself -- "cop on the beat that Sunday" would be laughable and kinda cute if it wasn't over such a dangerous abuse of power and what looks like the public's willingness to be deceived.
Your posts reveal that you want others to summarize their hours of reading and analyzing into a short post, for you. When others tell you to do it for yourself because they neither have the time nor the skill to do that, you complain that it's a "hair on fire response that I would even ask."
You depend on others -- the MSM, fellow FReepers -- to do what you should be doing for yourself.
We all of us share a world where now people indulge in sound-bite expectations and many have an entitlement mentality when it comes to being able to know instantly what happened. It's like wanting to have a black belt in karate after investing in two lessons.
I’ll have to put that down as a “no comment” to a simple question (I thought). Just surprised how unwelcome it is.
No hard feelings, here, Finny, seriously. See happy face >>> :)
Rita
Absolutely Agree, not comfortable times we live in.
Reports from the very start say that only about one third of the 170 folks arrested have criminal records in Texas. Perhaps they have criminal records outside of Texas, but two in three have ZIP arrest records in Texas.
So: Either this meeting was dominated by out-of-state criminal bikers, which no one anywhere has suggested, or ...
... the cops are way, way, way out of line and abusive, because Rita, I tell you true -- ANY criminal biker or wannabe criminal biker, has an arrest record. I've known too many of them personally to believe otherwise, and IN FACT, a whole lotta non-criminal bikers I know also have arrest records, but they are for things like DUI or brawling, not murder, meth labbing, racketeering, or robbery.
THAT FACT ALONE, that only a third of these folks have criminal records in the state, should tell ANYONE that this is an operation of some kind of intent WAY different than how it is trying to appear aided and abetted by the media, such as the local Waco Tribune, which hand-picks "letters from our readers" hugely dominated by a pro-police opinions, in directly opposite proportions to the unfiltered, un-hand-picked comments of readers on the actual Waco Tribune forum. Far and away the majority of readers are extremely skeptical of the cops, but the Waco Tribune is trying to make it look like their readers -- at least the ones that send them letters -- are the opposite.
God bless you and yours, Rita!
Please oblige me -- what was the simple question? Because it is you, I will do my best to answer it based on the info I have.
In return, I have a simple question for you. If the vast majority of these people were criminal bikers, why is it that only about one third of the 170 arrested have criminal records in Texas?
What is your answer to that? That it was dominated by out-of-state biker gang criminals? Or that the majority of criminal bikers have no records?
The answer to that may explain exactly why you are seeing so very little in the way of "remotely sympathetic" to the "cop on the beat that Sunday," which was actually 22 cops at the site before any shooting even started.
I greatly appreciate where you are coming from and of your own experience in absorbing this story.
I have no experience with bikers but for some beautiful people who happen to be Christian and helpful to all charities, etc., any excuse to get out, get on and enjoy the sun and the wind. They are all sportsmen, many retired, veterans of the sort who would, if in proximity, be the first to turn out to protect and defend military funerals from the likes of the West Borough Baptist Church insanes.
Also the records and rap sheets of the bikers, for DUI’s and brawls of youth don’t bother me. Gang warfare of the California sort would, of course. I’m stereotyping, admittedly.
My question is not about the bikers or against the bikers. That story, their story, seems to be coming out. Over time, maybe I will my answer, and get to read an accounting of the cops and other law enforcement agencies, like the ATF, whatever, maybe that will come out.
Anything to do with the name, “ATF”, sets off auto alarm, naturally, and it’s well deserved for them. They’ve earned it.
No, my question is why the typical Waco cop, who was stuck in that melee, assigned to it, was made to be so psyched with fear and adrenalin, alarm, anxiety and really, panic, that it was a bath for nine souls.
Keeping in mind that I am not really following this saga, which is admittedly worthy of a soap opera, I am nevertheless dying to know the inroads of what the cops evidently caused, in this event. It is the “why” and what was behind the cops that caused anything to start in the first place, with the cops, and “why” it ended, by the cops, as it did. I am very interested in the causal affects and focused solely on the cops.
Waco people know these cops, their kids probably go to school together, and church. If cops are still human too, they are probably married, maybe soccer coaches, whatever. So, what is the deal, here, that their training took second place to emotional reaction that is being deemed unsound?
I want to understand them first. I want to know what happened in their head that they were emotionally overwhelmed and who set them in that mindset. WTH was their training, for example? Are they made to fear everyone in these times? A traffic stop?
The pile on from Ferguson and Baltimore against cops and the abuse of cops has set my fury aflame. These two events have been unfair, uncalled for and unsupportive of guys willing to risk their life every day for 8 to 10 hours. I have that to settle in my mind, before I worry about a convergence of bikers in a shopping center. I just don’t yet care about the bikers until the cops are understood, for good or ill. I just want the story on the cops.
In fact, these days with things reaching out to annihilate cops whole sale, it’s almost a shame to even worry stressed out cops, with some big @$$ crowd of a bunch of unknowns, from who the hell knows where, converging in any town just because they want to, but that’s just me. The cops need some protection of their own today. They definitely need a break.
So, all this to say, that I guess that causal story on the state of mind of the cops just isn’t out. It probably calls for an investigation that hasn’t yet taken place to get to the answers I’m looking for.
As for the legal system and any dirty leadership in high places being unfair to the bikers, I have a feeling that will sort itself out. Corruption in these positions of power are rampant it seems, but the cops on the scene aren’t leadership, but are subject to it. I want to know what impact the superiors and the leadership have on the cop in Waco, who was on scene. Who planned the strategy for that day? Why were they so over psyched and blew up in a crisis?
Our whole country is on the tip of a needle. That’s 90% of the problem, here. Thanks for your patience. Rita.
You seem to have a vested interest in sticking up for biker scum. What is it?
Maybe you can point me to a post I made taking any side to this story.
Or are you just pulling things out of your arse?
Why did you cross post threads? Is your mission to confuse and obfuscate?
“Maybe you can point me to a post I made taking any side to this story.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3296068/posts?page=36#36
Nice try but where is my support for any side to the story?
I merely applauded a well known troll here for getting the smack down he/she rightly deserved.
You’re scrapping or cannot comprehend the written word.
And again, why were you cross posting?
Oops, scraping.
“I merely applauded ... “
a poster that has a set opinion so you must also have a set opinion.
Wow, you really are lacking in comprehension skills.
What was I applauding...oh yeah, a well known troll getting a smack down. Something tells me you’re next.
For the third time, why were you cross posting threads??
LOL...yeah, me thinks!
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