One Year After Shootout, Waco's Bikers Struggle to Move On

[SummerMadness]

One Year After Shootout, Waco's Bikers Struggle to Move On

One year ago Tuesday, law enforcement officials here broke up one of the biggest and deadliest clashes of motorcycle gangs in the country. Gunfire erupted outside a Twin Peaks restaurant at a meeting of a regional coalition of motorcycle clubs after an altercation between two rival groups, the Bandidos and the Cossacks. So many bikers were arrested — nearly 200 — that officials used the Waco Convention Center for initial processing.

Police have said that the bikers, who attacked one another and fired on police officers, were part of "a gang-oriented criminal element" that had brought a stockpile of weapons with them. More than 300 handguns, knives, clubs and other weapons were recovered by the police.

 

[nightflight]

Mr. Obledo was arrested, jailed for about 15 days, charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and had his bond set at $1 million. Because of his arrest, he lost his job and the home he and his wife were in the process of buying. Mr. Obledo wore a Bandidos undershirt that day, but he said it was not visible. He bought it the day before at an auto-parts store, he said, and had no ties to the Bandidos.

Then don't wear t-shirts with logos connected to a criminal organization, ya goof!

 

[Ironhold]

Actually, it's more than just that.

Everyone who was at the scene was arrested and processed as a criminal, regardless of whether or not they had any sort of involvement.

Many of the bikers who were arrested spent the exchange diving for cover and hunkering down, not opening fire.

So for them to be arrested before it could even be proved who fired the first shot was, indeed, a major foul-up on the part of Waco PD.

And for the record, I live in the Waco - Temple - Killeen metroplex area, and so this is local news for me. We've gotten details that the national media never covered.

 

[Chesterton]

Then don't wear t-shirts with logos connected to a criminal organization, ya goof!

To be fair, the selection of clothing at auto-parts stores is rather limited.

 

[cow451]

One Year After Shootout, Waco's Bikers Struggle to Move On

Dude needs a new t-shirt... like this one: