Quote:oldNslow:
Why all the hate against the cops?
I don't "hate" the cops. I'm simply questioning the actions of a specific PD with regard to this specific incident instead of uncritically swallowing the "official" version of events. Going from that to accusing me of an ingrained animosity toward LEOS in general is a bit of a stretch.
If you go back and look at most of the other posts, starting with the title of the original one, "moron bikers", I think you 'll have to conclude that most of the "hate", justified or not, has been directed at the bikers.
Quote: Main thing is , 9 outlaw bikers are dead. That's a good start...
Quote: Then again,.. we're probably all better off without them...
Look. When the truth finally comes out it's isn't going to make anybody happy. Right now everyone involved in this sorry mess is trying to spin their version of events to their own advantage, whatever they perceive that to be. That's just human nature. Everyone involved has an agenda of some sort and no one is going to tell the unvarnished truth.
I believe that when things are sorted out, to whatever extent they get sorted out, my suppositions of what happened will turn out to be substantially correct.
1. All, or most of the dead guys will turn out to have been killed by the cops.
2. Whether or not the cops were or were not justified in simply arresting everyone that was there, is one question, but charging everyone with some BS blanket racketeering law ( which was the JP, not the cops anyhow) and setting bond at A million dollars for everyone, is beyond ridiculous. Especially since, by their own admission, the Waco court system is incapable of handling that number of cases in a timely fashion.
3. The Waco PD, by their actions prior to, and during, the event, made a bad situation worse.
Nothing in the above has anything to do with "hating" the cops.
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