The authorities had for weeks been attempting to ‘prevent’ this meeting for all knew the likely hood of violence was probable as history of these war gangs have proved time and again.
It isn't a matter of trusting authorities...it's a matter of working with what you got in hopes of a favorable outcome. This event could not have played out any other way then it did without the bikers and the owner of this restaurant cooperating with the police...they didn't and here we are.
I am just catching up with this, so I probably have missed important details. I do know there was fighting in a parking lot and a large number participating, surrounded by police.
Imagine...tear gas. Imagine - fire hoses.
You're telling me that the only way it plays out is to open up and shoot them all down?
Is there ANY indication that ANY LEO was in danger of his life?