Posted on 06/10/2015 10:26:37 AM PDT by don-o
Matthew A. Clendennen, one of the nearly 180 bikers who were jailed after the deadly shootout here last month between rival biker gangs and the police, said he had one weapon on him during the melee — a pocketknife with a two-inch blade that was a Christmas gift from his parents and that he uses as a screwdriver and box cutter at work.
Mr. Clendennen, 30, said he never pulled it out. When gunfire broke out in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant where hundreds of bikers had gathered, Mr. Clendennen said, he rushed from the restaurant’s patio area to a hallway inside. He said that he crouched as gunshots echoed and that he never left the hallway. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage
Mug shots of 51 people arrested in Sunday's shootout in Waco, Tex. Mass Roundup of Bikers in Waco Shootout Tests Limits of Court SystemMAY 19, 2015 A McLennan County deputy sheriff stood guard near a group of bikers in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant after gunfire erupted between rival motorcycle gangs on Sunday in Waco, Tex. 170 Bikers Charged in Waco, in a Rivalry Rooted in the 1960sMAY 18, 2015
“They just collectively labeled everybody there as a vicious gang member,” Mr. Clendennen, a Baylor University graduate who owns a landscaping business in the Waco area, said on Monday, days after his release from jail. “They arrested us because of what we were wearing and where we were at. Because I was wearing a certain color vest, automatically in their eyes I was guilty. So much for innocent until proven guilty.”
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Would you add this article to the Texas topic? I tried, but it isn’t working.
Of course they forgot to mention that Clendennan’s club was a satellite club for the Banditos or Cossacks I don’t remember which but it was one of those.
It also omitted that Clendennan said he was not aware of any problems between the Bandito and Cossack clubs.
I guess if you don’t to tell investigators the truth they get suspicious.
The proud American tradition of guilt by association.
Wait.
What?
Still no reason to jail someone that DID NOTHING WRONG. Last I checked, it wasn't actually a crime to put on a jacket with certain colors. Might not be the smartest thing to do, but in the end, it's not illegal.
That looks like a happy Traitor.
That would have been worth bringing up during the first 72 hours of detainment, but we are approaching a month now.
Many of us on this forum, would find ourselves homeless and without possessions, and in terrible debt, if we walked away from our lives for a month.
Aravena is one of five men challenging dozens of murder convictions that resulted from the ruthless internal cleansing of the Bandidos motorcycle club in April 2006 at a farm near London, Ont.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bandidos-member-convicted-of-murder-feared-he-himself-might-die-lawyer-says-1.2767905
So according to this many of the deadly and threatening weapons seized required an extensive search to even locate.
Like a legal weapon in someone’s trunk. Maybe even their tire iron. So hard to come up with an arsenal for the press releases.
When the New York Slimes turns on a BATF operation the narative is collapsing.
He should not have been arrested. He was not caught, nor ID’d as doing anything illegal.
In other news it has been reported that the ALR (American Legion Riders) WERE also at the meeting. I AM an ALR and a Patriot Guard rider. Had this been in Arizona and I do attend the CoC here ... I WOULD have been one of these bikers that are now in jail. Also I ALWAYS conceal carry when I'm on the bike. It is my LEGAL right to do so. Sometimes I open carry my .45 H&K to these meetings ... that also happens to be LEGAL in this state.
Done.
You can not possibly attend COC meetings.
We have a Freeper who insists that all attendees are gang members. No exceptions.
He couldn’t be making stuff up could he?
This is an indicator of why our justice system has gotten off the tracks. The police have no idea if this individual has committed a crime, or not. They have no evidence and may never have any. They just rounded up everyone and locked them up, with no concern about the due process that must be followed.
The police and the prosecutors have decided that the law does not apply to them. If we allow it to continue, then there will be no limits on the power of the justice system. Bikers today, but church group or political gathering may be next.
Sorry to see you, by constantly attacking the bikers, defending this Obama DOJ/BATF operation carried out by the local Waco government lackeys.
Some of us still stand with the CONSTITUTION.
Don’t make up things, I haven’t changed any views nor have I commented on the events in Waco, and I’m not now.
I belong to a biker club and have for about 25 years, and I use to know the Bandidos pretty well, since their main house was only half a mile away, and I had a Bandido roommate and regularly spent time with them and running around with them sometimes.
If you look at my comments, they have only been to correct those idiots who don’t know about outlaw gangs, and my posts had nothing to do with Waco, nor does this point about this long term detention have to do with the events at the restaurant.
I have no idea what happened at the restaurant, that is why I don’t have anything to say about it, and haven’t had anything to say about it.
Why can’t people just read what posters are actually saying in their posts, without rewriting it into something entirely different, and trying to redirect everything into what they want to argue, or rant about?
My congressman would have also been at the meeting as he is in a “3 patch” club out here
Don't know what rock you have been hiding under for the last twenty years or so, but just because YOU aren't doing anything illegal won't stop you from being arrested if the folks you are associating with are. If you are with a group of friends, and one punches someone and kills them, and you do not intervene to stop them, you COULD be charged as an accessory, or if the attack was pre-planned, with criminal conspiracy. If discussed via phone or email, enter RICO, which I believe is what they are charging. In the modern era of gang task forces, they seem to arrest anyone and everyone present at "gang related activities", and let the courts sort out who is guilty or not, so this is not so uncommon. I don't think they have a case, not that it matters-- I think they are doing this for deterrence; if you wanna hang with thugs, you are gonna get treated like one.
I WAS complimenting you on your opinions about Waco ... which I happen to agree with. Don’t mistake my confusion with “making things up” That’s not appreciated.
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