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The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted? How 177 arrests led to no convictions — a tangled, seven-year tale of prosecutorial hubris and tenacious defense.
New York Times ^ | Feb. 23, 2022 | Mark Binelli

Posted on 04/23/2022 6:54:24 PM PDT by Elderberry

If you ask Paul Looney, a Houston defense attorney, about the Twin Peaks biker case, he’ll tell you there’s one person who knows more about it than anyone else alive: his trial-preparation specialist, Roxanne Avery. An entire wall of her home office in Norman, Okla., is covered with wallet-size mug shots of the nearly 200 bikers arrested, as well as photographs of the nine men who died that day, seven years ago, after a violent brawl in a Waco parking lot. Each picture is layered with Post-it Notes and details about the subjects: ages, road names (Cheech, Chain, Drama, Sidetrack, Saint, Mad Dog, Pee Paw, Bubba, Bubba Earl, Bashful, Yogi, Reno, Creeper, Grumpy Dan), club affiliations, ranks, descriptions of injuries (“Bullet entered neck, partially exited”; “Paralyzed from the waist down”; “DEAD”) and any other pertinent information (“I met him March 2018”; “9mm Glock”; “U.S. Army — 2 tours Iraq”; “Convicted felon”; “Shot dog?”; “Did not see anything”; “Graduate Baylor University w/ English degree”). Point to a random photograph, and Avery will generally be able to squint and tell you something about the biker in question.

“There’s a rumor that he killed somebody,” she said one morning two years ago, tapping a face. “I don’t think it’s true. I know these guys.” She wore a large black onyx ring and brilliant cherry red lipstick; one of her Chihuahuas, Bonnie, padded by in a white dress with a red bow. Moving to a large computer monitor, Avery began to click through crime-scene photographs, many of them graphic close-ups of dead bodies. “So he’s got a gunshot wound that you see is in his face and his eye,” she noted, pausing at a particularly grisly image. “The other one entered through his back and exited out.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: banglist; biker; ib4tg; ibtg; reyna; twinpeaks; waco
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To: Boomer
from the beginning. I remember the prosecutor was fully corrupt.

Remember that A hole Mike Nifong, and the Duke lacrosse players? That was corruption too.

21 posted on 04/23/2022 8:48:34 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DesertRhino

“some cops woulda been charged”

In this new reality? No negros shot, no foul.


22 posted on 04/23/2022 8:49:04 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: DesertRhino
That was a ‘stay outta Waco” message.

By not prosecuting or convicting anyone?

23 posted on 04/23/2022 8:55:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MinorityRepublican

As far as I can tell, it was ONLY Law Enforcement killing or injuring people.


24 posted on 04/23/2022 9:04:44 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There wasn’t enough evidence to prove that. Additionally, Waco refused to release the ballistics reports on the deceased - to the point where they literally dropped charges rather than release the ballistics reports in several cases.

What does that tell you?


25 posted on 04/23/2022 9:10:17 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: doorgunner69

This incident predates the current state of affairs by several years.


26 posted on 04/23/2022 9:11:04 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: DesertRhino

The problem with that scenario is the fact that Waco never released the ballistics. There is no evidence that the gang started the shooting, and the lack of ballistics reports tends to indicate the cops don’t want to demonstrate that *they* did all the shooting.


27 posted on 04/23/2022 9:13:01 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: DesertRhino

That’s only for guys on Harleys. Not how it works for non-Boomer type motorcycle clubs. :P


28 posted on 04/23/2022 9:14:07 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dragnet2

Don’t have to prosecute when you have snipers.


29 posted on 04/23/2022 9:32:02 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Spktyr

The groundwork was laid long ago.

Cops do not get prosecuted. Period.


30 posted on 04/23/2022 10:23:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: doorgunner69

Not always the case in Texas, fortunately.


31 posted on 04/23/2022 10:34:52 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Do_Tar

How many lawsuits against the city are pending?


32 posted on 04/23/2022 11:19:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Elderberry

Everyone in both gangs was probably an FBI CI.


33 posted on 04/23/2022 11:21:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ConservativeMind
As far as I can tell, it was ONLY Law Enforcement killing or injuring people.

It wasn't law enforcement who was videoed running through the restaurant waving and shooting guns while patrons were trying to have lunch. It also wasn't law enforcement ricocheting bullets off the nearby residential neighborhood homes with kids playing out in the yards.

34 posted on 04/24/2022 3:40:16 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Elderberry

Waco is just some kind of special place.


35 posted on 04/24/2022 5:27:51 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: Pollard

IBTG lectures us all...


36 posted on 04/24/2022 5:31:12 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: eastexsteve

It may have been law enforcement. Many of those “ricocheting bullets” were later found. Waco refused to release the ballistics reports on those too.


37 posted on 04/24/2022 5:52:28 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dragnet2

A *LOT* - Waco also went ahead and auctioned off all the vehicles they impounded pretty quickly, not waiting for trial.


38 posted on 04/24/2022 5:53:57 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: eastexsteve
Exactly what were the names of those you say weren't “law enforcement” and why didn't “law enforcement” ever release the ballistics of those shots fired everywhere?

You probably believe the FBI had no assets involved in actively helping the Gov. Witmer kidnapping act in Michigan and in Jan. 6 in DC, too.

You are clueless, I can tell. You believe all law enforcement wears prominent badges and has a tell-tale “look.” You also believe they aren't malicious or can't make stupid decisions—or both.

39 posted on 04/24/2022 6:52:51 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Elderberry

In short.... it was an op.


40 posted on 04/24/2022 9:25:25 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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