Waco police bullets hit bikers in deadly May brawl, evidence reveals

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Waco police bullets hit bikers in deadly May brawl, evidence reveals

Associated Press in Fort Worth
Friday 18 September 2015 17.42 BST

Evidence reviewed by the Associated Press confirms that police bullets hit bikers in the deadly brawl that erupted in May outside of a Waco restaurant, though it isn’t clear whether those rifle shots caused any of the nine fatalities.

Thousands of pages of police reports, dashcam video, photos and audio interviews are part of the more than 8,800 pages of evidence that is expected to be presented to a grand jury. They provide the best insight yet into the 17 May bloody confrontation between two rival motorcycle clubs, the Bandidos and the Cossacks, about which authorities have released little information.

The evidence includes video footage of people fleeing the scene while shots ring out, audio of police threatening to shoot people if they rise from the ground and photos of bodies lying in pools of blood in the restaurant parking lot. Although 20 people were treated for gunshot and other wounds sustained in the shootout, which began before a meeting of a coalition of motorcycle clubs that advocates rider safety, more people may have been injured.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/18/waco-shootout-police-bullets-hit-bikers-evidence-reveals

[Warpy]

1. There was one here a week ago

Fortunately the cops didn't arrive until it was mostly over, so the death toll was limited to two, one Poor Boy and one Bandido plus a few who got shot but lived.

At least the bikers fight each other and generally leave civilians out of it.