“What affiliation with LE do you have? “
It was a long post!
As for my affiliation with LE:
1. When I was a teenager, I got pulled over for running a stop sign at 2 AM after an out of town game. I didn’t run it. I just made a quick stop and the cop let me go.
2. When I went to a friends out of state wedding in GA I got pulled over just before dark with no taillights. Head lights were on so the cop had me check the fuse and followed me to the next gas station to get a new one. I was a few mph over the limit so when the lights came on I thought I would have to pay the mandatory driving in GA fee.
3. I got a ‘over 55’ ticket in Arizona on I-10 in the 80’s.
4. In the 90’s the local newspaper editor in MD called the sheriff and told him that he felt threatened because I was asked the wrong question. Actually, everything was ok till he went to Senator Sarbanes with the question and apparently the senators staff told him not to enquire on that subject.
5. In 2000 I got pulled over at 1 AM because the cop wanted to see my new car. He made a U-turn to come back behind me. Actually, his excuse was that he saw no license plate. It was the paper plate in my rear window put their by the dealer but not very visible due to the low profile and spoiler.
6. In 2003 I called 911 as this dude was trying to break into a car at 2 am that had been left their a few days ago by someone not from the neighborhood.
7. 2011: Retired from a successful career as a nuclear engineer.
Note: I may have missed a few informal on-the-street meetings with LE but none of any significance.
Not in LE yourself in some way...
I'm still not convinced.
But I am convinced you don't care to admit to the possibility that those who were arrested, were not all of them ---each and every one of them justifiably arrested and are guilty of the charges which they were.
The retired judge who refused motions to set aside the arrests, did not validate the arrests (in the case of one gentleman) as much as he noted the attorney had a compelling argument (the judge said "good argument") before punting, allowing the case to remain possibly taken to court.
That was after the police admitted in yet another hearing that they had no evidence that the accused had conspired to commit crime, or that he had committed any crimes.
Two hearings, and it comes out that the only 'evidence' which was mentioned by LE was --- they were associated with an MC --- and since they were present that day in Waco...blah, blah, bullshit.
It doesn't matter much that this judge let it slide. He didn't necessarily give the charges as filed ringing endorsement either. Obviously, the DA is gaming the system to an extent, although has not gotten away with every attempt.
There are compelling reasons to suspect, for some limited number of those arrested but were not seen to have participated in the fighting, that not only do the police not have evidence of conspiracy other than thru mere assumptions that there is, there are discernible indications that in regards to some number of those arrested, there is the opposite, and the police damn well know it, but are going to attempt to ride the accusation by way of innuendo, guilt-by-merest-association train as far as they will be allowed by compliant judges (and possibly juries) to take them towards blaming even those who committed no acts of violence, for those acts.
Deal with it. The hand you are holding on to -- sucks.