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ACLU: ‘Overzealous’ Waco police holding many bikers without charges
The Legendary:
- Waco Biker Massacre: Lawsuit Filed By Don Carlos Restaurants Claims "thousands Of Rounds" Were Fired, Police Claim They Only Fired 12 Rounds
The discrepancy is mind-boggling. From Courthouse News Service: DALLAS (CN) - A neighboring restaurant has filed the first lawsuit against the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco where a deadly shootout between rival biker gangs broke out on Sunday. ...
- Waco Biker Massacre: The Narrative Unravels
From Breitbart: Four weeks after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, more details have come out concerning the incident, but significant questions still remain about the actions taken by law enforcement and the...
- Waco Biker Massacre: Police Say They Only Fired 12 Rounds
If the cops only fired 12 rounds, and all other rounds were fired by bikers, then the massacre was more the fault of the bikers than it was the Police. This report, from the Police, contradicts the information that writer Donald Charles Davis (The Aging...
- Waco Biker Massacre: Witnesses Call Cops Killers
Nine dead bikers. 27 men wounded. 177 people arrested on Conspiracy charges, and given bail of $1 million, NOT BY A JUDGE, but by a Justice of the Peace. It is not clear who killed who. However, this is one of the worst massacres in American history...
- Waco Biker Massacre: 9 Dead, 178 Arrested, Charged With Murder, $1 Million Bail, Held In Jail For Weeks, Some Need Medical Attention, No Evidence Presented Before In Court, Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed
I'm getting to this story late. The Massacre actually happened on May 17th. At first, I figured it was just a biker brawl, and it may well have been exactly that. But that is no reason to hold 178 people in jail for weeks on end, under the charge...
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ACLU: ‘Overzealous’ Waco police holding many bikers without charges
The Legendary:
The Executive Director of the Texas ACLU locked horns with Waco Police.
Terri Burke accused the cops of holding many of the more than 170 defendants arrested following a mass shooting melee at Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco without charges.
“Based on news reports, many of these bikers remain jailed without charges, bonds set, or arraignments,” said Terri Burke. Texas rules of criminal procedure prohibit jailing a defendant for more than 48 hours without being charged by a Magistrate and advised of the rights of a person so accused.
In decrying “overzealous and abusive police work,” she called the mass arrest of more than 170 persons unfair, because “if any of the more than 170 arrests were based solely on membership in a group, the Constitution demands more, including probable cause.”
“We call on the Waco Police Department to release a detailed report on what triggered their response, the rationale for detaining such a large number of these bikers, and the reasons for keeping many of them locked up without charge.”
According to Deanne Katz, Esq., “If the prosecutor doesn’t bring charges within the time limit then the police have to let you go. Failure to do that is a violation of your rights.” He added that, once released from custody without having been charged, further prosecution stemming from the aborted investigation is thereby barred.
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a commenter at the original post puts it well:
Major Richard M. Cole, USAF (Ret.) says:
So, as of today, June 10, the Waco bikers still detained have been in the county jail for 24 days and the Texas ACLU has finally shown up to the fight? Where have you been while more than 170 people’s First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated. (Note to self, stop my charitable support of ACLU.)
- Waco Biker Massacre: Lawsuit Filed By Don Carlos Restaurants Claims "thousands Of Rounds" Were Fired, Police Claim They Only Fired 12 Rounds
The discrepancy is mind-boggling. From Courthouse News Service: DALLAS (CN) - A neighboring restaurant has filed the first lawsuit against the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco where a deadly shootout between rival biker gangs broke out on Sunday. ...
- Waco Biker Massacre: The Narrative Unravels
From Breitbart: Four weeks after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, more details have come out concerning the incident, but significant questions still remain about the actions taken by law enforcement and the...
- Waco Biker Massacre: Police Say They Only Fired 12 Rounds
If the cops only fired 12 rounds, and all other rounds were fired by bikers, then the massacre was more the fault of the bikers than it was the Police. This report, from the Police, contradicts the information that writer Donald Charles Davis (The Aging...
- Waco Biker Massacre: Witnesses Call Cops Killers
Nine dead bikers. 27 men wounded. 177 people arrested on Conspiracy charges, and given bail of $1 million, NOT BY A JUDGE, but by a Justice of the Peace. It is not clear who killed who. However, this is one of the worst massacres in American history...
- Waco Biker Massacre: 9 Dead, 178 Arrested, Charged With Murder, $1 Million Bail, Held In Jail For Weeks, Some Need Medical Attention, No Evidence Presented Before In Court, Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed
I'm getting to this story late. The Massacre actually happened on May 17th. At first, I figured it was just a biker brawl, and it may well have been exactly that. But that is no reason to hold 178 people in jail for weeks on end, under the charge...