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Four Weeks Later: Waco Police Narrative Unravels
Breitbart Texas ^ | Lee Stranahan

Posted on 06/14/2015 4:18:39 PM PDT by House Atreides

"Four weeks after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, more details have come out concerning the incident, but significant questions still remain about the actions taken by law enforcement and the police’s account of what transpired.

Although the national mainstream media has largely moved on from the Waco story, if critics of the police are correct, the incident represents an unprecedented civil rights violation and media cover-up campaign by the Waco authorities....

...In a statement on Friday, the police said that of 16 officers that were in the parking lot, only three fired a total of 12 shots. However, the statement still didn’t clarify how many of the bikers were killed by police. Authorities say they have not recieved final autopsy results that would clarify ballistics...."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bikers; breitbarttexas; police; waco; wacobikers
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To: Finny
Here is the reference to the Texas Rangers.

Tom Vinger, a Department of Public Safety spokesman, said Texas Rangers assisted that day with “documenting and securing the crime scene, conducting interviews, and processing vehicles” and are helping in any other ways they are needed moving forward.

They were there.

41 posted on 06/14/2015 6:46:49 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Finny

My goodness, I don’t give a damn about criminal bike gangs, OK? Is that better? There’s a huge difference between criminal bike gangs and some guy who owns a Harley because he likes motorcycles. However, I also don’t care a whole bunch about fat old people in leisure wear riding Harleys on weekends either.


42 posted on 06/14/2015 6:50:08 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Delta 21

And its insulting to say they were only there to help with interviews and process vehicles. Is that what the Texas Rangers have become?


43 posted on 06/14/2015 6:50:52 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Delta 21; JJ_Folderol; All
Pegging the meter:

At least FOUR clearly-marked police cars were visible.

Yet in that context: 151 firearms, 12 of which were long guns. The weapons recovered include: knives, brass knuckles, batons, tomahawks, weighted weapons, a hatchet, stun guns, bats, clubs, a machete, a pipe, an ax, pepper spray, and a chain. Many of these were hastily hidden and some were found using metal detectors as they were buried beneath the grass in the dirt were brought in preparation for a rumble among criminal tough-guys, then hastily hidden. LONG GUNS -- bikers with long guns. Who knew!

It is a ridiculous scenario. Bad-ass bikers are dumb-ass bikers, but they ain't that dumb, even in packs.

44 posted on 06/14/2015 6:58:37 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Delta 21

Thank you. Very helpful.


45 posted on 06/14/2015 6:59:06 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ozzymandus
I also don’t care a whole bunch about fat old people in leisure wear riding Harleys on weekends either.

You should, because they were among those who rode 800,000 to 1.2 million strong to Washington, D.C. on 9/11/2013 to speak out for THEE and ME, if we are Americans concerned with this administration's friendliness to hostiles.

Only one third of the folks arrested even had records. So much for "criminal bike gangs" dominating this charade and fiasco. So you need to give a damn about that!

46 posted on 06/14/2015 7:03:45 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

Confiscate 200 bikes motorcycles and search them all and thats about what I would expect to find. In Kansas none of it is illegal.


47 posted on 06/14/2015 7:05:26 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Finny

I have. There was at least one Texas Ranger on the scene. I am not sure of the timing of when he/they were there.


48 posted on 06/14/2015 7:05:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Finny

“Where did you see that Texas rangers were there?”

Also on another forum there was a DPS member posting that he would take the word of the Texas Ranger on the scene. That is all the info he gave up and rightly so from his stand point.


49 posted on 06/14/2015 7:07:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: ChicagahAl

If I were one of the bikers’ attorney, I’d be demanding all videos of the morgue and hallways and the sign in sheet. It’s too easy to put dead men’s finger prints on weapon to help fudge the report. Especially if it’s true that evidence was gathered and thrown willy nilly into a bag together rather than each in a separate evidence bag all nicely documented, sealed and signed off on.


50 posted on 06/14/2015 7:08:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: House Atreides

There was so much going on I don’t think anyone would have knowledge of what happened. It will all have to pieced together and that might be a problem if only one side as the video ect.


51 posted on 06/14/2015 7:10:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Delta 21; Scrambler Bob

Also on the scene were DPS troopers, McLennon Co. Sheriff Dept. and the West PD. Baylor Univ. campus cops were on call. That’s a boatload of departments for what was to be a regular meeting.


52 posted on 06/14/2015 7:15:06 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Parley Baer

Thanks!


53 posted on 06/14/2015 7:21:10 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ozzymandus
I don’t give a damn about bikers

There's a bike parked in my garage, so thanks a lot.

54 posted on 06/14/2015 7:23:51 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Scrambler Bob
http://www.wokv.com/news/news/national/police-192-people-arrested-in-waco-biker-gang-shoo/nmJPQ/ - WPD Sgt. Swanton said there were "18 Waco police officers and four DPS troopers were involved in the shooting"..."FBI and several other law enforcement agencies are assisting local police to process the crime scene"

Waco PD = black shirts

McLennan Co. Sheriff Dept. = gold star patch and tan shirts, Sheriff is large white shirt and cowboy hat. They are also the armed green fatigues.

DPS = red/blue patch and tan shirts

ATF = black shirts, tan pants and AFT vest

Texas Rangers = Rangers don't wear uniforms so hard to ID with just civilian dress though they would normally be nicer dressed with long sleeves.

West PD = I don't see the picture right now but iirc, black shirt and black vest with "West" on the back.

Gas station a mile away from Twin Peaks.

Arresting bikers on the edge of town just because they can.

55 posted on 06/14/2015 8:29:45 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Finny
LONG GUNS -- bikers with long guns. Who knew!

It's hard enough to fire a pistol from a bike, much less a long gun.

OTOH, I do know some folks who ride with a rifle mounted in a fork scabbard.  There's a real nice looking WWII Harley in the area rigged up like that. I think he mounts a Garand to keep it in period.

56 posted on 06/14/2015 9:09:20 PM PDT by zeugma (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3294350/posts)
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To: bgill

Mid-life crisis?


57 posted on 06/14/2015 10:14:52 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: bgill

Interesting pictures Thanks


58 posted on 06/15/2015 12:32:57 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: bgill

These pictures will come in handy when the first book comes out. I wonder if a made-for-tv movie is already in the works...


59 posted on 06/15/2015 12:50:45 AM PDT by Boomer (America; love it or leave it. It isn't just a bumper sticker.)
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To: House Atreides

Lee Stranahan deserves a Pulitzer for being the one mainstream journalist to keep his jaws locked onto the pants leg of this mass murder story

Which is being ignored by most


60 posted on 06/15/2015 1:06:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (Game of Thrones turned ugly)
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