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Maybe a few started shooting at each other first. Or maybe it was provoked by an undercover agent as some of the bikers claim. In any case you don’t fire into a large crowd because a couple of people in the crowd shoot at each other. I suspect that the reason they aren’t filing charges is that the videos would be so damning to the police they can’t let the defense have access to them. Better for the cops to drop the whole thing.

It’s my recollection that the cop that was the linchpin of the whole thing has gotten in trouble on a separate matter. Not sure that the prosecutors are going to want him on the stand at this point unless they can make the other issue go away.

They put the equivalent population of an entire small town in jail for many weeks, and then release everyone with no charges and decide to just forget the whole thing?

What a knee slapper!

“Maybe a few started shooting at each other first. Or maybe it was provoked by an undercover agent as some of the bikers claim. In any case, you don’t fire into a large crowd because a couple of people in the crowd shoot at each other. I suspect that the reason they aren’t filing charges is that the videos would be so damning to the police they can’t let the defense have access to them. Better for the cops to drop the whole thing.”
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You just may be right. The ONE video that was released (from a business across the way from the Twin Peaks restaurant) showed just a little of the action from the periphery. It captured one individual, apparently unarmed, shot in the back, dropped to the ground and no longer moving. About 15 or 20 minutes later a member of law enforcement checked on the body and then dropped something next to the body. I would NOT be surprised if that was a "throw down" weapon they placed there. If just this single video showed that, imagine what ALL the video would allow to be recreated. That's including video from all the businesses, all the law enforcement vehicles (e.g., local police, ATF, FBI) with video cameras, the "pole cameras" that law enforcement set up BEFORE the shootings, cop body cameras and video from hundreds of confiscated cell phones.

“I suspect that the reason they aren’t filing charges is that the videos would be so damning to the police they can’t let the defense have access to them. Better for the cops to drop the whole thing.”

Unfortunately, in this case, the LEOs can’t “unring the bell!” They can’t get out from under what they’ve done already by simply refusing to prosecute any of those they arrested. No matter what they do, there is no way to avoid the multitude of lawsuits that are heading Waco’s way. It will only take a few of the bikers to file suit to really put the financial hurt on Waco and to start the discovery process. Then the DA is going to be forced to bring in all the “evidence” he has, and that’s when the SHTF! This has gone way beyond the “we were just kidding stage.”