“When I finally got out of jail I called the owner, he said, ‘Can’t have gang members working for me.’ So I lost my job, as a lot of people did. The 62-year-old had worked for a roofing company before the shootout. Luther said he spent 33 days behind bars, racking up $1,000 in phone bills by speaking with his wife twice a day. Many could not afford to pay and languished in jail for weeks until their bonds were lowered. “I think it is important to send a message,” he told the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Photograph: Jerry Larson/APĪ justice of the peace, “Pete” Peterson, set bonds at $1m each. The 177 arrested were held on identical warrants and accused of engaging in organised criminal activity, which carries a potential sentence of life in prison.Īfter the shooting, 177 suspects were arrested and held on bonds of $1m each. The violence lasted no more than a couple of minutes, but so many suspects were detained that they were taken to the city’s spacious convention centre for processing. A spokesman said a firearm was found hidden in a bag of tortilla chips and a knife in a bag of flour. Waco police said in the aftermath that they recovered hundreds of weapons, including handguns, an AK-47 rifle, brass knuckles, bats, chains and knives. Police and the district attorney’s office declined to comment on those details at the time, but defended the officers’ use of force. 223-caliber rifles - the only type of weapon used by Waco police that day. Little evidence has been made public, but details obtained by the Associated Press suggested that four of the bikers were struck with bullets from. Anticipating tension, police were already nearby and arrived within seconds. Leaked CCTV footage showed customers and servers dashing for cover and men in leather jackets crouching behind tables with guns drawn.
Really at that point I didn’t know who was shooting.” “We decided we needed to move so we crawled military style on our stomachs up the patio stairs, through the patio and into the restaurant where we lay on the ground in the restaurant till the police came in. I looked up and saw Richie hit the ground, saw him bleeding from the head, started seeing people dying and falling all around me,” said Richard Luther, then a Cossack. Around 12:30 am, a group of Bandidos pulled into the parking lot at Twin Peaks and were immediately met by Cossacks pulling weapons as they exited the restaurant patio.“I curled up in a foetal position with three other people. On May 17, 2015, approximately fifty Cossacks arrived at Twin Peaks around 11:30 am, two hours before the scheduled meeting took over the outside patio area which had been reserved for the TXCOC&I meeting, and waited for the Bandidos to arrive (Waco Tribune). Consequently, the Cossacks planned to show up to the meeting early in a show of force. There has not been a Bandido chapter in Waco for years, therefore, the Cossacks have taken over the town and consider it their territory. The TXCOC&I meeting scheduled for May 17th, was a regional meeting planned to be held in Waco because it is a central point between Dallas and Austin. The Cossacks are not members of the TXCOC&I, due to their disdain for the Bandidos, and have never attended the TXCOC&I meetings in the past. How did one patch, with five letters on it, end with nine people dead, 18 wounded, and nearly 200 arrests? There were three main causes of the deadliest biker brawl in Texas history between the Cossacks and Bandidos the fight …show more content… The TXCOC&I is a motorcycle rights organization founded by the members of the Bandidos it allows clubs and independent riders across Texas to network about political issues and bikers’ rights. Outlaw motorcycle clubs live by their own set of laws, and the patches that they wear are held sacred any act of disrespect toward a clubs patches is considered to be the highest insult to the club.
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In this outlaw culture, violence is normal and frequent however, these stories rarely make the news due to witness intimidation and the clubs’ inferred code of silence.
Show More What caused the explosive confrontation, in public, between the Cossacks and the Bandidos? Motorcycle clubs in America have a long history of civil conflict.
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