WACO, Texas (AP) — Police were on alert Monday for any retaliatory attacks after a chaotic shootout between rival biker gangs left nine people dead and at least 18 more wounded outside a Texas restaurant.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said authorities had received threats against law enforcement “throughout the night” from biker groups and stood ready to confront any more violence resulting from Sunday’s gunfire.
“We have a contingency plan to deal with those individuals if they try to cause trouble here,” Swanton said at a news conference.
About 170 people were arrested on charges of engaging in organized crime. Earlier, Swanton said 192 people had been arrested but later revised that number downward.
The shootout erupted shortly after noon at a busy shopping center along Interstate 35 where members of at least five rival gangs had gathered for a meeting, Swanton said.
Preliminary findings indicate a dispute broke out in a bathroom and escalated to include knives and guns. The fight eventually spilled into the restaurant parking lot.
“I was amazed that we didn’t have innocent civilians killed or injured,” Swanton said.
The interior of the restaurant was littered with bullet casings, knives, bodies and pools of blood, he said.
Authorities were processing the evidence at the scene, 95 miles south of Dallas. About 150 to 200 bikers were inside during the shootout.
Parts of downtown Waco were locked down, and officials stopped and questioned motorcycle riders. Agents from the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting local and state authorities.
Police and the operators of Twin Peaks — a national chain that features waitresses in revealing uniforms — were aware of the meeting in advance and at least 12 Waco officers in addition to state troopers were outside the restaurant when the fight began, Swanton said.
Officers shot armed bikers, he said.
It was not immediately clear whether any of the nine dead were killed by police. The identities of the dead have yet to be made public.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission closed the Twin Peaks location for a week out of fear of more violence, Swanton said.
A statement released Sunday night on behalf of Jay Patel, operating partner for the Waco franchise, said his management team was having “positive communications with the police.”
But Swanton said the management has not cooperated with authorities in addressing concerns about the gangs and called Patel’s statement a “fabrication.”
Rick Van Warner, a spokesman for the Dallas-based corporate franchisor, said the company is “seriously considering revoking” the Waco location’s franchise agreement.
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara, whose office is involved in the investigation, said all nine who were killed were members of the Bandidos or Cossacks gangs.
In a 2014 gang threat assessment, the Texas Department of Public Safety classified the Bandidos as a “Tier 2” threat, the second highest. Other groups in that tier included the Bloods, Crips and Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
The Bandidos, formed in the 1960s, are involved in trafficking cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
El Paso authorities in 2012 said several Bandido members were involved in an assault and robbery at two bars, according to the assessment. State arrest warrants were issued for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, engaging in organized crime and other crimes, and six of the suspects were arrested.
The Bandidos conduct their activities as covertly as possible to avoid publicity, according to the DPS assessment. Members are not covert, however, about making their presence known by wearing their colors and insignia, and riding in large groups.
The Texas assessment does not mention the Cossacks.
There’s at least one previously documented instance of violence between the two groups. In November 2013, a 46-year-old from Abilene who police say was the leader of a West Texas Bandidos chapter was charged in the stabbings of two members of the Cossacks club.
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Associated Press writer Diana Heidgerd in Dallas and videographer John L. Mone contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/waco-guard-biker-gang-shootout-leaves-9-dead-072100471.html
If this isn’t a snare to further the cause of the police state,I don’t know what is
Qui bono, WHO is to benefit from this? Not the bikers. They are the dead and wounded or jailed. The police and the BLOOMBERGERS will use this too justify ending all MC’s…Watch what happens as this develops. It will be used to clamp down further. Biker + gun equals crime…I learned that in common core!
Agreed.
MSM is running with the propaganda they are being fed by LEOs.
This was scheduled meeting of Region 1 of the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents. Check out their website, members, calendar of events:
http://txcocinews.org
“May is Motorcycle Safety & Awareness Month. Meet the Team and find out what you can do to help spread the Safety Message.” That really sounds like a meeting of “violent rival gangs'” looking to settle a score, doesn’t it…(sarcasm).
“The interior of the restaurant was littered with bullet casings, knives, bodies and pools of blood, he said.”
So we’ve been told. However, we’ve been LIED to before.
Many, many, MANY times, in fact.
“The identities of the dead have yet to be made public.”
Still working on that, apparently.
Although I’m certain that list was complete weeks or even months ago.
They have to notify all of the next of kin first.
However, I found this for you:
“Here is a list of those arrested, from the McLennan County Sheriffs Office (note this list may not include all those who have been charged):
William Chance Aiken
Ray Arnold Allen
John Arnold
Colter Bajovich
Timothy Todd Bayless
Richard Benavides
Burton George Bergman
Ronnie Carl Bishop
Brian Joseph Brincks
Robert Clinton Bucy
Salvador Berber Campos
Richard Cantu, Jr.
Kenneth Robert Carlisle
Jason L. Cavazos
Rene Cavazos
David Cepeda
Roy James Covey
Bohar Lee Crump, Jr.
James Albert David, Jr.
Dalton Davis
James Michael Devoll
Jason Alan Dillard
Morgan Jane English
Matthew Ryan Folse
Mario Alberto Gonzalez, Jr.
James Laray Gray
Nathan Clark Grindstaff
Arley Lester Harris III
Jarron Ray Hernandez
Michael Scott Herring
Tommy Keith Jennings
Laurence Wayne Kemp
Richard Martin Kreder
Brian Dwight Logan
Jonathan Michael Lopez
Richard Olen Luther
Michael Lynch
Sandra Erler Lynch
Noble C. Mallard
Eleazar Martinez
John Anthony Martinez
Dustin James McCann
Billy Jason McRee
Tom Modesto Mendez
Rudy Mercado
Marshall Mitchell
Michael Doyle Moore
Jason Jesse Moreno
John David Moya
Doss Barron Murphy
Diego Nerio Obledo
Dusty Alan Oehlert
Melvin Michael Pattenaude
Julie Elaine Perkins
Larry E. Pina
Jerry Lee Pollard
Jimmy Lee Pond
Kevin Gene Rash
Clayton Dewayne Reed
Owen Lee Reeves
Rolando Reyes
Sergio Reyes
Kristoffer Lance Rhyne
Robert Liewellyn Robertson
Boyce Ray Rockett
Trey Alston Short
Jimmy Dayton Spencer
Blake Scott Taylor
Michael Glenn Thomas
Christian Valencia
Jose Andrew Valle
John Phillip Vensel
Justin Nash Waddington
Glenn Allen Walker
Steven Walker
Ester Sandy Weaver
Walter Thomas Weaver
Jacob Ryan Wilson
John Robert Wilson
Ricky Wayne Wycough ”
http://heavy.com/news/2015/05/waco-texas-shootout-arrests-charges-motorcycle-biker-gangs-members-names-bail-mugshots-who-are-biker-gang-members-arrested-after-waco-texas-shootout-race/
They may very well have arrested real people, Angel, but as far as ‘dead’ people go… no supporting evidence yet.
Not even badly manufactured ‘supporting evidence’.
Second video titled: Witness describes hiding during Biker shootout;
even has an officer say there were rifle casings. LOL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/18/how-the-bandidos-became-americas-most-feared-biker-gang/
Crisis actors will be putting in overtime on this one.
The scumbag jews are getting desperate.
Where are the videos?
If a fight was going on some one would have recorded it.
The interior restaurant cameras would certainly have it, as would parking lot security cameras. You know those have all been confiscated as “evidence.”
Bonds Set At $1 Million For Twin Peaks Shooting Suspects
Restaurant Franchise Revoked
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Waco-Shooting-Near-Twin-Peaks-In-Waco-304043711.html
“About 170 people were arrested on charges of engaging in organized crime. Earlier, Swanton said 192 people had been arrested but later revised that number downward.”
Now it’s 170 people? Tomorrow they will change it to 10 people and next week it will only be 1 person in order to support their “lone wolf” propaganda. I still don’t understand how they can arrest that many people or how that many people, especially bikers, willingly submitted or gave up to a handful of police all at once.
Check out my comments (including links) in this post:
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/looks-like-they-went-and-got-us-some-blood/132979#comments