Post by pavel on Apr 7, 2016 17:28:30 GMT -6
Newly Released Footage Shows Waco Biker Shootout From Start to Finish
Last May, nine people were killed, 20 injured and 177 people were arrested in a biker shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. One hundred fifty people were indicted with a $1 million bail set for each of them. As we approach one year later, not a single person has seen trial. In fact, there hasn’t been a single trial date set, either.
A few days ago, without much fanfare, the terms expired on a grand jury called to examine the evidence. It’s not at all clear what will happen next – or when. The public’s been in the dark largely because of a gag order that has kept virtually everyone involved in the story from talking to the media.
But now KCEN, the NBC-TV affiliate in the Waco area, has obtained video footage of the shootout from start to finish, a breakthrough made possible by an attorney from Las Vegas who handed the videos to the Texas TV station. He’s a biker attorney named Stephen Stubbs, and while he has represented members of the Banditos in the past, he is not currently representing any individual in the case. He said he got the video from news organizations, who asked him to review it and give his opinions.
“It tells me that District Attorney Abel Reyna and the Waco Police Department are full of baloney,” Stubbs says. “The public has been fed a narrative that just simply isn’t true, its been twisted so that (the officials) look better, which is really a shame.”
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/newly-released-footage-shows-waco-biker-shootout-from-start-to-finish/
Last May, nine people were killed, 20 injured and 177 people were arrested in a biker shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. One hundred fifty people were indicted with a $1 million bail set for each of them. As we approach one year later, not a single person has seen trial. In fact, there hasn’t been a single trial date set, either.
A few days ago, without much fanfare, the terms expired on a grand jury called to examine the evidence. It’s not at all clear what will happen next – or when. The public’s been in the dark largely because of a gag order that has kept virtually everyone involved in the story from talking to the media.
But now KCEN, the NBC-TV affiliate in the Waco area, has obtained video footage of the shootout from start to finish, a breakthrough made possible by an attorney from Las Vegas who handed the videos to the Texas TV station. He’s a biker attorney named Stephen Stubbs, and while he has represented members of the Banditos in the past, he is not currently representing any individual in the case. He said he got the video from news organizations, who asked him to review it and give his opinions.
“It tells me that District Attorney Abel Reyna and the Waco Police Department are full of baloney,” Stubbs says. “The public has been fed a narrative that just simply isn’t true, its been twisted so that (the officials) look better, which is really a shame.”
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/newly-released-footage-shows-waco-biker-shootout-from-start-to-finish/