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Police: 9 dead after shooting between biker gangs in Texas

DEVELOPING: Police in Waco, Texas say nine people are dead and multiple people are injured after a shooting between rival biker gangs at a restaurant Sunday.

“Officers were on scene when shooting started,” the Waco Police Department posted on Facebook. “No officers have been injured.”

Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told The Associated Press that eight people died at the scene of the shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant about noon Sunday and another person died at a hospital. The severity of injuries to others was not immediately known.

It is not clear if bystanders at the restaurant were among the injured.

Swanton said Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office are surrounding the restaurant and securing the area.

“Please avoid the Central Texas Market Place as the area is NOT safe. Officers are continuing to arrest individuals coming to the scene with weapons,” the Waco Police Department posted on Facebook. “This is not the time to sight see as we are dealing with very dangerous individuals.”

Swanton told the station that the fight started in the restaurant with fists and feet, then escalated to chains, clubs and knives and then to gunfire.

Swanton said police were aware that gang members were gathering at the restaurant and officers were present when shots began.

Some of the officers fired on bikers as the shooting spilled from the restaurant into a busy parking lot, according to The Associated Press. Patrons and bystanders dove for cover.

A witness who asked not to be identified told KWTX that he had just finished eating lunch at the nearby Don Carlos Mexican Restaurant with his family and walked out into the parking lot when they heard gunshots and saw wounded people being taken from the scene.

"We crouched down in front of our pick-up truck because that was the only cover we had," the man said.

Victims were taken to the Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest Medical Center in Waco.

Swanton said authorities are concerned that gang members are moving to other parts of the city to continue the confrontation elsewhere.

McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna told KWTX earlier this month that law enforcement was aware of simmering conflicts between gangs that gathered at the restaurant.

R-Jack wrote:So nine biker gang bangers died, or some combination of wannabe criminals, junkies or other random piles of trash that hang out at known gang hotspots.

I fail to see the downside of this news.

KC Scott wrote:95% of ALL MC are Not out there playing "Sons of Anarchy" or whatever other little stereotype Hollywood puts out there

Even a club like HA there's only a small % of the members running dope, most have real jobs and regular lives

But please, continue with your hand wringing

Left Seater wrote:club patches and positions

Papa Willie wrote:It's funny how the media turns this into a major story (because I guess it was mostly whites).

http://heyjackass.com/

Why don't they say anything about the 79 that were shot in Chicago last week? The 6 that died?

Oh that's right - because they're black and it happens everyday...

Papa Willie wrote:It's funny how the media turns this into a major story (because I guess it was mostly whites).

http://heyjackass.com/

Why don't they say anything about the 79 that were shot in Chicago last week? The 6 that died?

Oh that's right - because they're black and it happens everyday...

Mikey wrote:If 1,962,614 people were shot death in Chicago last week it would probably be newsworthy.

Papa Willie wrote:It's funny how the media turns this into a major story (because I guess it was mostly whites).

Left Seater wrote:I don't know a single one who belongs to a Motorcycle Club, much less one who wears a leather jacket with club patches and positions. They just ride out into the hill country on nice weather weekends and then turn around and ride home.

mvscal wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:It's funny how the media turns this into a major story (because I guess it was mostly whites).

Uh...a shootout that killed 9 people and wounded another 18 is a major story.

Papa Willie wrote: Why don't they say anything about the 79 that were shot in Chicago last week? The 6 that died?

Oh that's right - because they're black and it happens everyday...

Papa Willie wrote:Oh - I agree - this is a major story.

Flashback about 10 years ago. I had a couple of friends that were eating in the food court of a mall here in Macon. Suddenly, a couple of black gangs start fucking shooting it out at each other from opposite sides of the food court. Went on for a good 5 minutes, while all of the other normal folks had to hide under their fucking tables to keep from getting shot. Several people were wounded, but nobody died.

The local media never said a word about it. We all guess that the mall (who was starting to struggle at that time) paid the media off - NOT to say anything about it, and it CERTAINLY didn't make national headlines. But this is the kind of fucking shit I'm talking about. We don't get to hear about shit like this coming out of Coonville.

Papa Willie wrote:Why don't they say anything about the 79 that were shot in Chicago last week? The 6 that died?

Oh that's right - because they're black and it happens everyday...

Rooster wrote:Meth production and transportation is gonna take a hit. However, what has always cracked me up is the whole "Toys for Tots" thing that the Hell's Angels do with the Marine Corps. I'm not quite certain who is hoping who will rub off on the other. Is it the MC looking to be a bit more badass by associating with a notorious criminal gang or it is the other way around? The HA are looking for legitimacy by handing out toys to children and getting their picture taken with the supposedly most badass branch of the military? I've always seen it that the Angels get more from the relationship than the other way around, but who knows? Maybe some general is the military equivalent of the dentist who gets all dressed up in the de'rigeur Village People costume of the black leather vest and assless chaps.

KC Scott wrote:it pisses me off when I hear people thinking all clubs are outlaw

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:We're not talking about guys like Sudden Sam and KC Scott strapping on the leather and playing Easy Rider on a Saturday afternoon.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:Please stop throwing around terms like "1%'ers" if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

We're not talking about guys like Sudden Sam and KC Scott strapping on the leather and playing Easy Rider on a Saturday afternoon.


Oh...and "1%'ers" aren't the only bikers running drugs/extortion/hitman services...If you don't know what the term means...SHUT the FUCK up. Thanks.

KC Scott wrote:I've read several different accounts of what happened, including the following article which WON'T get any News coverage but supposedly does include eyewitness accounts saying none of the bikers were shooting: http://www.agingrebel.com/12873

According to them it was a knife fight that the cops opened fire on the combatants killing all 9. I don't know if it's true, only a Ballistics test will confirm what really happened

When the restaurant refused to ban the Confederation of Clubs, police stationed at least 22 cops including ten Swat officers from the Waco P.D. and the Texas Department of Public Safety in the parking lot outside the restaurant. They did not station either uniformed or plain clothes officers in the restaurant.

The shove in the bathroom became a scuffle in the restaurant. When about 30 Bandidos, Cossacks, Scimitars and other bikers spilled into the parking between the Twin peaks and the Don Carlos Mexican restaurant next door, the police were waiting for them. The scuffle became a knife fight and several men were stabbed. When one of the combatants produced a gun the Swat team opened fire with automatic weapons. Multiple sources have told The Aging Rebel that all of the dead were killed by police.

Diego in Seattle wrote:For starters, there's the shared experience of constantly being under threat from cages.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:your one-percenter-name is: Scurge
and you are riding with the: White Werewolfes MC

KC Scott wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:

Diego in Seattle wrote: Why fuck up the experience of the joy of riding with a bunch of drama and/or politics?

Someone is going to tell me when and where I'm going to ride? That ain't gonna happen.

Not exactly Sam - some clubs ma have mandatory hauls, but a group like Liberty Riders schedules a run and if you make it you make it, if you don't it means you had something better to do

BSmack wrote:

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:your one-percenter-name is: Scurge
and you are riding with the: White Werewolfes MC

Right on Scurge! Dirty Old' Moose of the Booze Junkies MC at your service. To kick your ass that is!

Goober McTuber wrote:

KC Scott wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:Someone is going to tell me when and where I'm going to ride? That ain't gonna happen.

Not exactly Sam - some clubs ma have mandatory hauls, but a group like Liberty Riders schedules a run and if you make it you make it, if you don't it means you had something better to do

Or maybe you were just skeered of the CAGES. Pedo sounds like all the hipster doofus bicyclists that post on local forums here. Cages. Because you know, we're all prisoners of our motor vehicles.

Diego in Seattle wrote:We get it. You don't ride, and don't live somewhere with scenery worth seeing. Sucks to be you.

Goober McTuber wrote: A small boy on your dick?

mvscal wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote: A small boy on your dick?

Diego in Seattle wrote:

mvscal wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote: A small boy on your dick?

This is a discussion about bikers & motorcycle riding.

Mikey wrote:Quadrophenia