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Most of 177 Twin Peaks bikers no longer wearing ankle monitors
Waco Tribune ^ | October 3, 2015 | TOMMY WITHERSPOON

Posted on 10/03/2015 8:12:21 PM PDT by ExyZ

None of the bikers who wore the monitors for varying periods of time committed any serious violations that caused them to be removed from the GPS program.

“I have gone through the discovery, and right now I am of the opinion that they might not successfully prosecute anybody who is still alive.... Looney said.

Reyna’s prosecutors have taken hard lines during examining trials for bikers, alleging that each showed up at Twin Peaks that day wearing his or her colors, most of them armed, in a show of full support for their affiliate members because they were keenly aware that such a firestorm could erupt.

This despite testimony from state and local officers that they had no evidence that the bikers in the examining trials committed any crimes or had any knowledge that the gunfight might occur.

(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biker; reyna; waco
The Waco Tribune Herald seems to have experienced an epiphany of sorts within the past week.
1 posted on 10/03/2015 8:12:21 PM PDT by ExyZ
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To: ExyZ

Some Waco LEOs will be wearing them soon.


2 posted on 10/03/2015 8:16:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: ExyZ

IIRC, there were the good guys and the bad guys. The feds were backing the bad guys and wanted to send a message to the good guys. Quit interfering with our illegal border operations.

Not only the feds, but the local LEO is totally corrupt and in cahoots with the bad guys too.

I assume the ‘biker’ who started the fight and is nowhere to be found now was probably an undercover fed.


3 posted on 10/03/2015 8:25:03 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ExyZ
Yes I noticed that they changed their tune a little. There was something mentioned way early on, that the company who owned this ankle monitoring company had some ties to the Law enforcement or Prosecutors.
4 posted on 10/03/2015 8:30:31 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: ExyZ

There are going to be some people here on FR that will be saddened by the news in this story. I wonder how many will wind up suing the City of Waco?


5 posted on 10/03/2015 8:38:07 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: ExyZ

“Reyna’s prosecutors have taken hard lines during examining trials for bikers, alleging that each showed up at Twin Peaks that day wearing his or her colors, most of them armed, in a show of full support for their affiliate members because they were keenly aware that such a firestorm could erupt.”

Wow? Does this prosecutor think:

1. What one wears can be a crime?

2. That the 2nd amendment is waived, if you think there might be danger where you are going. It seems pretty reasonable to me to go armed if you think someone there is danger where you are going.


6 posted on 10/03/2015 10:19:36 PM PDT by JLS
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We can hope.


7 posted on 10/03/2015 10:23:31 PM PDT by sport
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To: ExyZ

Only the ones that we shot dead in the street were guilty!


8 posted on 10/03/2015 10:45:41 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: easternsky

I am reminded of this editorial from two days after. I am still looking for a quote from the Tribune, early on, while all were being charged with identical crimes, and with identical absurdly high bonds, and their mugshots posted montage style with the effect to further enforce the belief all were guilty and equally culpable, cautioning its readers that many arrested may not have committed any crime at all.

Who was it that was ready to categorize, stereotype and jump to conclusions, facts notwithstanding?
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http://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-deadly-twin-peaks-biker-gang-shootout-shouldn-t-define/article_26523947-fdb3-551a-ae69-c3b9882fc7c1.html

“However, those who quip that we have returned to our “Six Shooter Junction” frontier days and that we now labor under a cloud that will be slow in dissipating ignore the fact that most of those who caused Sunday’s trouble were not local, that law enforcement was ready for them and that the episode is an isolated one, not part of some sorry trend or lamentable era.

Some will judge us forevermore based on this episode. Too many Americans, possibly because of their work-a-day worlds and their prejudices, stand ready to categorize, stereotype and jump to conclusions, facts notwithstanding.”


9 posted on 10/04/2015 8:33:29 AM PDT by ExyZ
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What needs to be monitored now are the financial assets of the various governmental agencies and personnel involved in this fiasco of an Obama regime led provocation gone terribly wrong. They also need to make sure that no government agency or contractor “disappears” any of the video or other evidence they are currently holding.

And IBTG of course.


10 posted on 10/04/2015 2:13:57 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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“That is what I see. We are starting the letting-go process, although they are not admitting they did something wrong. Oh God, no. They would never do that. I don’t think we will ever get to that point where they admit these people did nothing wrong and should never have been arrested,” Reposa said.

“I have gone through the discovery, and right now I am of the opinion that they might not successfully prosecute anybody who is still alive. I think they may have a couple of dead people they may be able to convict, but the ones who committed the crimes are dead. Everybody else was defending themselves or other people,” Looney said.

God Help US. #Headshake


11 posted on 10/04/2015 9:54:51 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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