Biker gang shootout in Texas

[marigolds6]

Originally Posted by KaaBoom

The police deserve no kudos. They need to start doing their job by enforcing Chapter 125 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code, against white gangs, as they do against minorities.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov..._abatement.pdf

We have a similar law here in St Louis, and the sticking point is always the citizen declarations. Without citizen declarations, a nuisance designation is near impossible. But any citizen who makes a declaration is risking their life. (And the Texas law looks even more useless than ours. The property owner can post a $1k bond to prevent closure; then just just have to pay a $10k fine and forfeit the bond. At worst, they can go to jail for 30 days for civil contempt. We at least have a forfeiture built into our nuisance law, even though it is still impossible to get a declaration if there is citizen intimidation involved.)

[ciceropolo]

Originally Posted by Slowpoke_TX

Yeah, 86 dead Americans was the right way to handle the "problem" of executing a search warrant.

Agree, sorry about that, I forgot the *sarcasm* emoticon...it was not right way to solve the "problem"

But it did fit *somebody's plan*...
February 28, 1993. In the initial assault on Mt. Carmel in
Waco, Texas, four agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
were killed. Those killed in the attack were : Steve Willis, 32, of
Houston; Robert J. Williams, 26, Little Rock, Ark.; Conway LeBleu, 30,
New Orleans; and Todd McKeehan, 28, New Orleans. [Reported in "UPDATE:
AT LEAST FIVE DEAD, 15 INJURED IN TWO SHOOTOUTS AT TEXAS CULT COMPOUND
WACO, TEXAS," MARCH 1, 1993, UPI.]
President Clinton himself revealed that these men had been his
bodyguards in a speech on March 18, 1993, before employees of the
Treasury Department:
"My prayers and I'm sure yours are still with the families of
all four of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents who were killed in
Waco -- Todd McKeehan and Conway Le Bleu of New Orleans; Steve Willis of
Houston, and Robert Williams from my hometown of Little Rock. Three of
those four were assigned to my security during the course of the primary
or general election." ["REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO EMPLOYEES OF THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT," The Cash Room, Treasury Department, March 18,
1993, 11:48 A.M. EST.]

[Dyadic]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I cannot help it if there are some racists on CD that pile on threads about anything bad done by a black person, don't try to pin that crap on me.

You are probably also familiar with the meme that now somehow the word "thug" is racist....which is what the OP is fishing for here. Sure, some use it along with other words in a racist fashion, but that doesn't make the word racist....anymore than the word watermelon is racist because some people make racist comments using the word.

It's meh, because they're a violent biker gang. They killed each other (yay). They didn't spray a school gym with gunfire and kill innocent bystanders...and nobody is having a march or rally over "racism".

Here's what's sad.

One guy shot by a cop of the incorrect pigmentation is a national crisis.
400 guys shot by a gang member of the same pigmentation is a statistic.

We shrug off thousands of deaths a year in inner-city gang killings, you can't figure out why this biker shooting isn't that exciting? Because there is no *sexy* to the story. No racial angle. The only hook is the high single event body count.

You are minimizing the issue which isn't surprising. There is a national crisis and it has been going on for decades. It's effects are pervasive to the point that many whites accept it as a normalization of inequality.

[convextech]

The saddest part to me is that there are plenty of biker clubs, that do good, all over the country. They wear black leather vests with their logos, looking "ferocious" while they ride in single file to a charity event to raise money for the family of a fallen police officer (just this weekend) or to raise money for a sick child (a month ago).

These thugs give the good guys a bad name.

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by convextech

The saddest part to me is that there are plenty of biker clubs, that do good, all over the country. They wear black leather vests with their logos, looking "ferocious" while they ride in single file to a charity event to raise money for the family of a fallen police officer (just this weekend) or to raise money for a sick child (a month ago).

These thugs give the good guys a bad name.

While there are some truly good clubs out there, there are plenty of those biker clubs that do good things as cover to the bad stuff they are involved in. The figured out decades ago that having the public look at you as decent people helps in getting them to ignore the bad you do.

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by AuburnAL

A question. Everyone keeps saying these were white biker gangs, but I was under the impression that the Bandidos are a Mexican biker gang. Is that incorrect?

From all I know that is correct.

Originally Posted by MJ7

The Bandidos are white, I live in a large city where they are present.

I live in a large city and they are predominantly Mexican (hispanic) here. The whole gang-like mentality seems to originate there.

[jimj]

Anyone notice the Nazi SS tat on the arm of the "Road Captain"?

[City Guy997S]

Originally Posted by charlygal

What is the world coming to with all these thugs going around killing people.

Shootout among rival biker gangs in Texas restaurant kills 9

You do realize that the only deaths were all bikers involved in the melee. No innocent bystanders or cops were killed......


WHERE IS GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WHEN YOU NEED HIM!

[rancenc]

Thank you lawd!! Them were not black folk for a change!!!! Hallejuhah!!!!

[uggabugga]

wow. 165 arrests.

Deadly Waco biker gang shooting: At least 165 people booked into jail | KXAN.com