Posted on 06/22/2015 4:15:27 PM PDT by Prolixus
If you thought violent biker gangs were a relic of the Altamont era, the shootout at a Waco, Texas, restaurant on May 17 might have come as a shock.
A long-simmering beef between the Bandidos and Cossacks boiled over into gunfire. When police arrived at the scene, gang members shot at them too, leaving nine bikers dead, 18 people injured, and 170 suspects in police custody. Over 100 weapons have been confiscated.
The scale of this incident dwarfs a typical urban gang confrontation, says Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and an expert on gangs and guns. We talked to Pollack about why biker gang violence typically gets so little attention. He believes the Waco incident confounds our expectations regarding the race and geographic location of people who perpetrate crime, causing us to see biker gangs as more of a “curiosity” than a threat.
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The Waco PD is planning to present on Facebook this week the reasons why they were at Twin Peaks that day. This is probably where the “investigation” is starting. They’ve got to answer “why the bleep” they were there in the first place before they answer “how the bleep” they lost control of the situation.
“I wasn’t talking about the immeasurably small sampling you want to show me. I was talking about the thousands of bikers I have met, all over the country.”
In your short discussion, you specifically referred to those that were arrested in Waco. YOU narrowed it down to that population.
” They’ve got to answer “why the bleep” they were there in the first place “
1. They had previously broken up a biker altercation at the Twin Peaks the previous month.
2. Bandidos and Cossacks were warring gangs.
3. Bandidos moved their meeting into Cossack territory.
“before they answer “how the bleep” they lost control of the situation.”
Are you suggesting that the WPD should have disarmed everyone that pulled into the parking lot?
Twelve rounds of .223 cal. What were the Waco PD shooting at? What kind of bullets (jacketed? frangible?)? Did they hit their targets?
Energizer troll, that one is...
Definitely working into the FR Hall of Shame that only a few notables of doleful memory have achieved.
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