Lol, I bet this passed the highly refined smell-tests of the local drug-dealing biker nutriders. Rock-solid and reliable journalism... at least on this drug-dealing biker topic. On anything else the ultra-left blogs are of course the corrupt minions of Obama.
If you DID, you'd know for a fact that the manipulative coverage on this in the MSM has zip to do with left or right and everything to do with manipulation of ignorant, gullible Americans who rely on "journalists" to spoon-feed them rather than their own efforts to know what's going on in the world around them.
If you DID rely on your own efforts rather than spoon-fed pabulum, you'd figure out what the vast majority of Americans who are paying attention already have: that the cops arrested a whole bunch of law-abiding Sunday bikers and are using the MSM to manipulate gullible people into buying a made-in-Hollywood script/meme/myth, including a mind-bogglingly lunatic conspiracy theory that:
-- 177 motorcyclists wearing patches that cops and "informed" people like you are wise to (that's me being sarcastic) as broadcasting their violent criminality ...
-- conspired to commit murder during Sunday brunch in a busy public restaurant in a busy public shopping center in the presence of who knows how many security and cell phone cameras ...
-- at a pre-publicized public COCI meeting as such with a 20-year history of being perfectly peaceful, open to any and all, to discuss political issues affecting motorcycles, and the cops stepped in and ...
-- save the day by shooting and killing nine evil conspiring bikers (they were wearing patches!!!), wounding 18, and slamming 177 people in jail mostly for a month and more (not "days") on million dollar bail.
Really???? You actually think that all 177 of those arrested were "criminal bikers," several of them with NO MOTORCYCLES and a full two thirds with zip criminal records in their homestate of Texas?
You even probably are so gullible that you are willing to believe that although all but one are residents of Texas, that the only reason they don't have arrest/conviction records in Texas for violent crimes such as assault and robbery, is because they cleverly and malevolently work their crimes outside of Texas just to fool the cops!!
Biker-phobic myth swallowers such as you are forced to such ludicrous rationalization because otherwise, you'd have to admit that IF all 177 of these criminals are what LEO/MSM claim they are, then obviously, Texas cops are inept boobs.
How else was it that until March 17, the vast majority were getting away with mayhem even when wearing patches that (for folks "in the know" like yourself) are blinking neon signs with arrows pointing to themselves as active criminal gang members? Texas cops missed them two out of three times before???
Truly, ECO, I can only hope that you are being sarcastic. Because if you seriously deceive yourself as to believe such a line of wholesale horse manure as put forth by conspiracy theorists in LEO ... then you really bode ill for intelligent common-sense conservatism.