From my reading experience these so called biker outlaw clubs are a drug running and criminal organization masquerading as weekend bike riding clubs or some such. I know there is a mystique and all that but it’s just a type of mafia that rides motorcycles.
Your reading experience is ivory tower out of touch.
You, of course, are free to hold such an opinion and express it. Law enforcement is not free to do so.
Law enforcement must operate within the constraints of the Constitution. They may not arrest because they do not like your looks. They must comply with the 4th Amendment and arrest an individual only upon probable cause that an individual has committed a crime.
The "law" under which the 177 were arrested and detained under unconstitutional $1,000,000 bonds makes it a criminal act to sport certain insignia and calls a peaceable assembly an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy. All this and more of what is happening in Waco ought to concern anyone who claims to be awake to the stripping away of American's liberty.
A friend’s sister’s ex-husband is a Bandido and was arrested that day.
He spent a month in jail and his one phone call was not “Hey, please take care of my two sons who are at home alone”, but rather “please go to my house immediately and dispose of all the drugs”.
He had no job, but plenty of money. How, you ask? Because once a month he would transport drugs of some kind from McAllen TX up to Odessa. That was his one and only task, and it paid well.
His group is indeed a criminal enterprise. The biker clubs arrested that day made up of ministers and former Marines? not so much.