They will allow other motorcycles clubs to exist, but they’re not allowed to wear that state bottom rocker.
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Police said that once the restaurant was cleared, they found hundreds of weapons – from guns to batons and knives – hidden in sacks of flour, bags of tortilla chips and tucked beneath benches. Dozens of bikers inside the building, hide in the bathroom and the restaurant.
“The lead guy, I looked out – I was watching – he deliberately steered into one of our prospects and hit him”, said John Wilson, president of the Waco-area chapter of the Cossacks. (The Cossacks were on the patio, for example; a few of the men were armed, but it appears a majority of them were looking for cover.) “We basically walked into an ambush”, the Cossacks’ Jon “Hondo” Moses told GQ. “When you are laying there and people are getting shot around you and bullets are whizzing by you”.
Allegedly having 900 members, the Bandidos are classified by the Texas Department of Public Safety as Tier 2, the second most unsafe classification regarding outlaw motorcycle gangs.
“In 34 years of law enforcement, this is the worst crime scene-the most violent crime scene-that I have ever been involved in”, he said. The shootout erupted in the parking lot of the restaurant.
Surveillance footage obtained by CNN shows the chaotic scenes during the ferocious gun battle that ended with nine fatalities in May.
Surveillance video giving us the most detailed accounts of what happened last May.
Waitresses and barmaids were seen running for cover as the bullets fly. Waco police say they didn’t release the video and may charge whoever leaked it.
Numerous bikers and their attorneys say investigators overreacted by arresting 177 suspects.
In the video you see the stunned reaction from people on camera as gunshots start exploding.
A few of those arrested have filed lawsuits, and Dallas attorney Susan Anderson, who represents one of those arrested, noted numerous club members present had no involvement in the shootings.
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Officer Kristina Woodruff, who was called to the scene, said in a witness statement obtained by CNN: “The music was blaring loudly and dead bikers were lying on the concrete”.
