More Twin Peaks bikers file civil rights lawsuits
Eighteen more bikers filed federal civil rights lawsuits Wednesday as attorneys scrambled to beat the filing deadline on the two-year anniversary of the deadly Twin Peaks shootout.
The suits were filed by Dallas attorney Don Tittle, who represents 116 bikers seeking to recover damages from what they claim were their false arrests in May 2015 and being placed under what they charge were excessive $1 million bonds.
“The mass arrests were unprecedented in both their scope and the complete absence of individual, particularized facts to establish probable cause,” the suit alleges. “This suit seeks to correct the miscarriage of justice and assault on the United States Constitution perpetrated by these defendants.”
The lawsuit names as defendants former Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco police Detective Manuel Chavez, McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna, the city of Waco, McLennan County, Waco Assistant Police Chief Robert Lanning, Waco police Detective Jeffrey Rogers, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Steven Schwartz and DPS agent Christopher Frost.
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