…not only about the shootout (not “riot”) between rival outlaw biker gangs in Waco over the weekend, but about the idiot left’s race-baiting response? Yep – Kevin Williamson already has it, in this piece from NRO.
I’ll let you read the whole thing. With Williamson, it’s always worth it; he bludgeons the incendiary mythmongering of the left’s activists and media (ptr) wings.
I’ll cut to the big pullquote:
The Waco police did not follow the lead of the Baltimore police; the mayor of Waco did not follow the lead of the mayor of Baltimore and declare an outlaw-biker free-fire zone. Instead, the police swooped in, arrested the better part of 200 people, started booking them, and peace was restored.
And nobody in Waco gave any press conferences about the need to understand the legitimate rage of the poor white peckerwood dumbass class.
And that’s as it should be.
I think if these bikers would have had universal pre-K education, this wouldn’t have happened. White lives matter!
It’s like if you put thugs in jail, you get less of them on the streets or something like that. Maybe they should try it in the big cities.
Maybe Chuck’s suggestion is Dayton’s logic……
Killer bikers are assumed to have the ability to make moral decisions.
Black people are not assumed to have the ability to make moral decisions.
“And that’s as it should be”
Unfortunately, that’s not how it is.
“The local Harley Davidson dealership was closed, motorcycle riders were asked to stay off the roads and police snipers took to rooftops…”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/19/us-usa-texas-shooting-bikers-idUSKBN0O400820150519
I don’t blame you Mitch. The Waco PD spokesman (Waco Willy) has spent the last three days spewing nothing but bullshit that the MSM has dutifully extrapolated.
First is was a “biker shootout”…now coppers “may have” been responsible for “some” deaths. It will be all the deaths before long. (There is one guy who was clearly shot off his bike…can’t wait to hear the explanation for that.)
First, it was the gangsters were shootin’ it up in the restaurant, now all the shooting took place in the parking lot. (Too late for that to matter to the franchise holder)
First is was “100 weapons recovered!” Now it’s 50, including pocket knives and a padlock.
I’ve been telling y’all about the oil\water relationship between coppers and the truth for years. Now just sit back and watch as the truth comes slowly trickling out. This isn’t Ferguson.
Oh, and something of particular interest for you Mitch. The coppers are counting guns they found during searches of cars and saddle bags in their weapons haul.
It’s illegal to carry a pistol (or rifle) into a bar in Texas, so chances are pretty good the owners of these were legal CWP holders, you know, obeying the law.
Swiftee,
Interesting.
Got a link?
Waco Tribune is saying police are finding a large number of weapons, including guns, stashed in various spots inside the restaurant. Doesn’t mean they were used, but the bikers didn’t want to be found carrying them.
This may be a good time to recommend the book Breaking the Code. Co-written by the former head of Minnesota chapter of Hells Angels, and the Minneapolis police officer who busted him and his network.
Sounds to me like some good ballistics work will sort out things. And, quite frankly (to hop on a soapbox I like), this is a place where I hope the police have video. What happened? Roll tape.
Regarding the weapons found, it is striking that they are talking about thousands of weapons, but arrested only 170 bikers (and removed 9 corpses and 18 wounded). So either the crowd was much larger (doubtful in a restaurant that size?), or many of those arrested were carrying a bunch of weapons and…I’d presume…..looking for trouble.
Again, fingerprint evidence will say what is true, and (again) hopefully there is video. Roll tape for the DA.
The only experience I have with bike gangs is the Seventh Sons out of Eu Claire. A dozen members with one ratty Sportster between them.
Pat Matter, Chuck. Real sweetheart of a guy. Made a bundle dealing meth, laundered the proceeds through his motorcycle shop, got busted, shafted his bike shop partner and implicated everyone he knew to save his hide, co-written by the cop he sold his soul to.
Great read with nothing but the truth, fer sure.
You mean the Sovrin Sons Mingo
“Johnny Snyder, vice president of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club in Waco, said some people licensed to carry had firearms in their vehicles when they arrived but didn’t bring them into the restaurant Sunday where the shootout occurred.”
“Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Wednesday the weapons included an AK-47 assault rifle taken from a vehicle, handguns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and chains. A day earlier Swanton had said 100 weapons were expected to be recovered.”
“He acknowledged the weapons included pocket knives and Swiss army knives confiscated by authorities.”
“Security camera video reviewed by The Associated Press shows that as gunfire broke out in the parking lot of a Texas restaurant, dozens of bikers ran for cover inside and tried to guide others to safety.”
“The video suggests the Sunday gunfight that left nine dead was contained almost entirely outside the restaurant, besides one gunshot fired by a biker on the patio who then runs inside.”
Here’s something I hadn’t heard
“One of the men arrested in the aftermath of a motorcycle gang shootout in Central Texas that left nine dead is a retired San Antonio police detective.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/05/20/the-latest-on-waco-shooting-retired-detective-also-arrested
Swiftee….I used to work with a guy who had a large amount of interaction with law enforcement. But he usually stayed out of jail.
Plan A: He had a really good lawyer. Would get him off the charges, then sue the police for something stupid. He was the stereotype of the crooked lawyer.
If that didn’t work…
Plan B: Roll over on his dealers.
Swiftee, thanks for the links. Now one caution; sometimes when those numbers change, it’s simply because of the “fog” that surrounds every investigation. I would guess that the “thousands of weapons” number came from an officer who was astounded at how much he was finding, and a reporter took it and ran with it. Then they actually got all the weapons on tables and said….a number closer to the real number. So it doesn’t necessarily indicate malfeasance on the part of the police, IMO.
And I’ve got to admit that I was encouraged…..sort of…..to see that the former cop/school bus driver was black. I had a coworker–Sons of Silence–and when I noted that he seemed pretty harmless, another coworker said “yeah, because you’re white.” Evidently I was underqualified to figure some things out because of my status as a person of pallor, and there was no mistaking my other coworker’s tone. The interesting thing was that he was at least 6’2″ and about 300 lbs, not much of it fat. It wasn’t like he couldn’t ordinarily take care of himself around thugs.
Would love to believe that these guys are just guys who like to ride and have a few beers when they’re done, but something about the “deliberate badass” tone a lot of them set tells me that this may be an optimistic view.
Bubba, I’m not gonna tell you three piece patch holders are Boy Scouts, we’re not. And I’m not gonna tell you there aren’t some that are ready and willing to open cans of whup ass if provoked, there are. I’m not even gonna tell you there wasn’t a fight before the coppers opened fire. But we’re not mindless animals. I don’t know a single patch holder, and I know a lot from a lot of clubs including those involved here, that would sign up to head into a public resturaunt and slaughter people.
If you’ve followed this story, you’ve seen Waco Willy in his be-medaled uniform spewing facts, figures and invective with abandon. And every day, another of his BS statements are exposed for what they are.
He is the fog.
And I’m not gonna tell you there aren’t some that are ready and willing to open cans of whup ass if provoked, there are.
And that’s probably jaundiced my view of bikers, especially after my time working in bars; a lot of them are waaaaaaay too easy to “provoke”. Almost like they go out looking for fights.
Same, really, for any group of aggressive guys that travel in crowds and like to get hammered a lot, really; when I worked in bars, there wasn’t a lot of difference between bachelor parties, frat parties, groups of construction workers in from out of town and bored on a Wednesday night, or bikers…
But as re Waco, I’m listening.
“Same, really, for any group of aggressive guys that travel in crowds and like to get hammered a lot…”
You’ve been away from the bar scene for a long time, Mitch. Irv’s is gone, the Sun Saloon is empty and the 331 Club is now a hangout for leftist “Drinking Liberally” thugs…the old days are long, long gone.
In all honesty, it has been years since the last time I was at a gathering where I could identify even 1 drunk guy among the few that were drinking anything other than Coke. Knowing a cop is likely to pull you over to check what side you parted your hair that day, only an idiot is going to ride away from a bar drunk, and idiots don’t last long.
Most of the altercations I’ve seen start with a drunk non-biker staggering over and mouthing off. I have never, ever seen an unprovoked incident, or before more than one warning has been given.
The club I rode with in Minnesota is greeted warmly everywhere they like to go.
ps: I seem to remember a MPD copper getting jail time for knocking a guy out, resulting in brain damage, because he was talking loud.
http://www.startribune.com/former-minneapolis-cop-sentenced-for-assaulting-bar-patron-in-andover/215135261/
And there is another that was just indicted today for knocking the crap out of people multiple times in bars:
http://news.yahoo.com/minneapolis-police-officer-indicted-9-counts-213352618.html
Not that it applies to MC behavior, jus’ sayin’.
You’ve been away from the bar scene for a long time, Mitch.
For which I hit my knees and thank God every night.
Swiftee, looking forward to the video and ballistics evidence. Dare I suggest that maybe passing the helmet around (say one of those cool ones with the spike?) to review the evidence might be a good move if indeed you’re confident that the police are acting more or less as a manure spreader?
Bubba, if there is one thing I am sur of, it’s that there will be plenty of cash on hand to find the truth, and to defend those charged.
By the way, the story has changed again. The coppers said everyone killed was a member of a “criminal gang”. Not so much…
“Texas biker slain in Waco melee was Purple Heart recipient”
And not a member of any club. Wife says he didn’t own a gun.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/05/21/slain-texas-biker-in-waco-melee-was-vietnam-veteran-with-purple-heart/