Yesterday marked day 1,000 since the infamous "Waco biker massacre." That was the brawl-come-gunfight carefully orchestrated by half a dozen law enforcement agencies in May of 2015.
Bikers are a handy foil for ambitious law enforcement types. I mean, they have "gangs" and tattoos and they ride loud motorcycles and they look scary, at least some of them. And they don't have a well-funded lobby group like Black Lives Matter looking out for their interests.
In other words, they're an easy target. The cops originally corralled 171 people; anyone in the vicinity of the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant who looked like a biker, including unfortunate folks who didn't have tattoos, motorcycles, or gang affiliations, and held them all on a million dollar bond.
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In the immediate aftermath the media treated us to all sorts of fanciful speculation about the biker underworld declaring war on the Waco Police Department.
Yup, Bandidos looting National Guard warehouses for rocket launchers was just one of the hysterical fake-news stories making the rounds.
And then, the story disappeared. The million dollar bonds were reduced and reduced again. The attention span of Jane and Joe Public being what it is, we lost interest. I personally haven't gone out of my way for a Waco update for at least a year.
There's only one place to go for a Waco update; The Aging Rebel. I know nothing about the guy who runs that website, but I find it rings authentic. Here's where things stand almost three years after the event;
One thousand days after Reyna and other local authorities deliberately sought out to obstruct justice in Waco, there remain 45 unresolved civil cases with at least 148 individual complainants in various state and federal courts throughout Texas. There remain 27 unresolved asset forfeiture cases. There remain 171 unresolved criminal cases. Only in Waco in McLennan County in Texas could that be seen as something like justice.
Holy Moly! That's a long time to have these serious criminal charges hanging over their heads for those 171 defendants. Wonder how many jobs have been lost, marriages and families destroyed?
The ongoing cases will keep dozens of lawyers in new Cadillac Escalades for at least the next twenty years.
Only in America!
It defies us all to accept that Federal and state LEO's (Law Enforcement Organizations) could foment a riot for political purposes and that they we were so wreckless that it ended in a Mass Murder. Let alone that htey would be so stupid as to arrest nearly 200 people w/o a shred of evidence.
ReplyDeleteI have done my best to write a fictional account; not to tell exactly what happened but; to show how it well could have happened. To allow us all to suspend our disbelief and accept the fact that this riot was fomented by the LEO's and sanctioned by the DA.
All we have to listen to is the recording of the young Waco police officer Nicki Stone told a colleague after the shooting, “I really didn’t think it was going to end like this. I thought that we were supposed to stay back and let them fight this out,” ..
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