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Police aren’t naming the “gangs” involved in what’s being called the “Waco Shoot-out”. And everyone impeccably uniform, in creased jeans and leather vests as tidy as union jackets or bowling shirts.
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I’d even say like brownies with their spotless vests. No doubt one can say the bikers were not boy scouts, but have you seen the photos? These “gangs” wore their colors, in this case patches, like boy scout badges. Do the police know who will be the targets of their vengeance? The media is making much of the anticipation that fellow gang members are converging on Texas to avenge their comrades. How long before we learn how many undercover officers had fired their guns? Why the blackout on the club affiliations? Why are the 170 arrestees being detained on a million dollar bond each? Why aren’t reporters challenging the police narrative? Witnesses assert that at least four of the dead were killed by police. Let’s say the melee happened as the police and media describe. Zero officers were hit and I will bet every bullet was theirs. What might have been an unremarkable barroom brawl turned into an ambush that killed nine and wounded eighteen.
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They were able to respond within 45 seconds of the alleged altercation.
#COSSACKS VS BANDIDOS PATCH#
Something like three dozen undercover officers were monitoring the usually uneventful bi-monthly Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting in anticipation that the “Texas” patch would offend the Bandidos MC. By my reading, informant provocateurs incited trouble by “rocking” patches which claimed the territory of “Texas” for the Cossacks Motorcycle Club. The only witnesses reaching reporters are the sergeant giving the press briefing and undercover cops purporting to describe the tensions between the “gangs”. The Twin Peaks restaurant claims the shooting started outside. Did motorcycle club members shoot at each other? They’re unavailable for interviews, locked up on million dollar bonds. It’s described as being a gang shoot-out, but what happened in Waco is still shrouded in the fog of the official POV. This gangland shoot-out has all the subtlety of the St Valentine’s Massacre. Police claim that the brawlers redirected their fire toward officers, but did that happen while the bikers were trying to ride off? Because that task requires both hands. Motorcycle headlights were on, indicating club members were trying to leave. Investigators can litter the crime scene with brass-knuckles and knives but the shell casings are going to be police issue. Was the Waco Shoot-out a gunfight between rival gangs or an ambush laid by law enforcement? Police are monopolizing the testimony but the evidence suggests a barroom brawl became a pretext to kill or arrest essentially grassroots organizers, now charged with “organized crime”.