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My musing off the release of the affidavit:

Chief of Police Brent Stroman has stated that his men were sitting in their vehicles when the violent altercation began. The affidavit that I read at the source Of another thread http://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/Dallas-Bandido-Opened-Fire-in-Waco-Shootout-Police-308261651.html seems to rely a lot on review of recordings.

Question arises: Is it best practice when LE is onsite, ostensibly off intel that trouble was in the wind - is it best practice to be chillin’ in the cruiser?

If they are chillin’ in the cruiser, do they have a view of the guys who seemed to be forming up, adjusting and checking weapons?

If, instead of chillin’ in their cruiser, they actually had their feet on the ground and eyes on the scene, would other options have been available other that firing into the middle of the violent altercation?

The affidavit presents a picture of an escalating situation over an unspecified period of time. Chief Stroman’s statement presents a picture of a PD caught flat footed.

Two not pretty pictures.

Any late-arriving Bandidos drove right past a whole lotta marked cop cars. And in a sense, even dwelling on it is like missing the forest for the study of the trees. What's at stake here is the fact that 177 people were arrested and held captive for two weeks to a month on million dollar bail, basically for liking Harleys and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their reputations and ability to work, pay bills, carry on, have been frozen solid, at a million dollar bond. Two thirds even lack criminal records, let alone serious ones. So far, it seems the only serious records belong to Bandidos.

The cops should be catching criminals who do crimes, not playing the bad boy biker referee in the games clubs play.

It's too late now, in any case. The harm has been done, the die has been cast, the anchor's been thrown. From here on out in America, "bikers" will be monitored and policed, regardless of who or why, and everybody will think everybody else thinks it was necessary, a necessary evil to having a civilized society. After this they will retain that power to destroy the financial and personal lives of anyone they please, in any club they deem to consider a "criminal" or "domestic terror" enterprise.

They've just shown they can do it and how.

Well some info trickling out, but not from who it should be coming from. It is what We have always thought from the first, the Officers took out who they planned on taking out. Death by Police with the approval of Millions, and many on here. Still think there is UC involved, may have been among the Murdered. Half of America does not even know about it, Most of the others do not care, as some on here. Goes back to some of our first concerns, they came for the bikers, I was not a biker. Meanwhile 9 more Americans die across the country and everyone knows. The Price of Freedom is buried in the Ground. “YOU’VE NEVER LIVED ‘TIL YOU’VE ALMOST DIED, FOR THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR IT, LIFE HAS A FLAVOR THE PROTECTED WILL NEVER KNOW. God have Mercy on America.