Posted on 06/16/2015 11:25:51 AM PDT by don-o
The controversy over the Waco 170 continues as mre info comes out about the people who were arrested after the deadly May 15th shooting incident outside a biker event in Waco, Texas.
Now with this exclusive interview with one of the arrested, you can make up your own mind.
Did the Waco police overstep their authority and arrest innocent people? Or did they do the right thing and bust over 170 dangerous bikers?
It’s one thing to read about it. Watch our interview with Matt Clendennen and if you can figure out who’s telling the truth: the police or the bikers?
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The investigator pockets must have been full!
Unfortunately, a missing <p> ran that into my own commentary.
I really haven't noticed much mention that the Twin Peaks location was in close proximity to many other businesses. Nothing like heading out to Cabela's, or Cavendar's, or Ross Dress for Less, and hearing gunfire way too close for comfort.
Follow-up:
Waco is the 22nd largest city in Texas. It hardly qualifies as a “small town”.
I wonder if we'd all be having this same conversation if nine members of inner-city Los Angeles gangs were killed (maybe all by police). My guess is you'd be applauding that. But I've been wrong before.
Well, I hate to bring this up when everybody is having so much fun, but has anyone actually taken the time to view the Clendennen news conference?
At 20+ minutes it’s probably way too long for some of the attention spans here, so you might want to skip the first 12 minutes when Clendennen is talking (since he rides a motorcycle and must therefore be a lying criminal).
The rest of the interview is assorted lawyers talking and that part is actually interesting since there are some references to civil rights, the Constitution and such nonsense.
Matt Clendennen News Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPCN_eeDMqI
I’m in NYC. If 170 people were arrested all at once it would cause a massive backlog. And I assume our court system is much larger than Waco’s.
You said, All of these guys were wearing patches at the same time and place
ALL these guys were wearing patches...??...You got any proof of that...or are you just lying?
This was one instance and these men were all connected and were part of an active crime scene.
Connected how? Motorcycles? Leather jackets? Beards? What????
Are you a cop?
Had not seen this thanks for posting it! Got it playing now.
The video attached to the Breitbart piece here is not this one.
I saw a “Bed Bath and Beyond” store in some of the photos from the scene. I think the restaurant is part of a reasonably large shopping center.
I also think law enfarcement officers did most of the shooting that day, despite claims by the Waco police that they only fired 12 rounds.
Think about this.
The cops were basically laying in wait, watching and observing.
That makes the cops witnesses.
Since these cops were witnesses and in fact opened fire on several individuals, do they not have a damn good idea who the few individuals were allegedly fighting? They shot at them right?
It begs the question, if they had a damn good idea who caused the trouble why take all 170 people into custody and then charge them ALL with felonies?
This is total bull sh*t.
It may be debatable whether or not he should have been arrested but the $1,000,000 bail that was set is a violation of the 8th amendment.
For the third time, didn’t you take an oath pledging to support the U.S. Constitution? It’s not a small thing to take that oath.
If there were patrons in the restaurant who were not a part of these gangs in any way and they were locked up for almost two weeks, then you have a point. But from what I’ve seen in the pics and read in articles, those arrested were wearing vests.
Police in the city of New York arrest 140 people per day for marijuana possession.
Arresting 170 people at once would barely cause a hitch in their system.
However, even if the “poor little town” of Waco can only handle preliminary hearings for 8 people a day (that’s two judges at two hours per hearing per day), they should still have been able to process almost everyone who was arrested that day, and either bring specific charges, lower their bonds, or release them without charges, by now.
I live in a County with a population of 27,000 people and we have three judges available to hear cases in our Courthouse.
Absolutely right, without a doubt... And the RICO styled charge along with it, used so very indiscriminately.
But that is a separate question from the one: "in a violent melee, should everybody be arrested?" Probably so if there's a public safety issue. What is the compelling reason now to continue holding them?
I agree completely. Shutting it down might well take brutal force (tho that is still a question), and may well require a 'sweep and hold' to sort it out. But that holding action should be remedied with all possible haste, and those not involved should be immediately released. And they have vid, as well as gang profiling and direct knowledge of troublemakers, so there can be no excuse.
Sorry, but thefactor's "paperwork" excuse won't fly. Frankly, it sounds like something the hard-nosed cop in a bad movie would say to excuse his own criminality.
Agreed. The whole 'kill them all, let God sort them out' thing has never been a righteous method... and this sort of thing can lead to that method in a surprisingly short time... Hence my alertness and concern.
I hope you understand how ridiculous that sounds.
Ahh. That explains a lot.
IIRC, he claims to be a cop, or has so claimed in the past.
You left out the deadly full automatic nail clippers. Yep, nail clippers were actually reported in the confiscated weapons list.
It’s typical government vindictive conduct, because they can. The judges enable the thugs.
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