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.
I see a lot of posts conflating “bikers” with these criminals. I was very specific in my statements. I am not castigating Harley riders at all - but these Bandidos and Cossacks and Hells Angels make their living either being muscle for hire, making and transporting drugs or what have you. That does not mean I know what happened that day and who was in the right and who was not. But I am pretty sure these biker gangs have a well deserved reputation and its not due to them needing a shave and a haircut.
“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.”
A great tragedy that any “club” culture requires a man to ride, even leaving his children alone as in the case you cite, or as fatherless in the case of Campbell . . .
And OH what a guy! in your example. He wants someone ELSE — a friend or relative — to become a felon for disposing of evidence of a crime! or hindering a criminal investigation regarding drugs in his possession!
And a man such as this, is presented to us by some here, as an exemplar of Constitutional values?? Sorry, not swallowing that Kool Aid.
Thanks for this believable example. I won’t ask you to openly divulge the identities of your sources.