Post by Logan on Jun 6, 2016 0:47:14 GMT -6
3 more bikers file civil rights lawsuits over Twin Peaks shootout arrests
Three more bikers arrested after the Twin Peaks shootout in Waco filed a civil rights lawsuit Friday, claiming they were improperly arrested and denied due process.
Theron Rhoten, Jonathan Lopez and Ryan William Craft, all members of the Vice Grip Motorcycle Club from Travis County, bring the total of bikers who have filed civil lawsuits to 13.
All 13 filed suit in federal court in Austin and all are represented by Dallas attorney Don Tittle, who successfully represented nine sheriff’s deputies who sued McLennan County and Sheriff Parnell McNamara on claims they were retaliated against for backing McNamara’s political opponent.
“These three guys have not been indicted, nor should they,” Tittle said. “These are guys who love building and restoring old bikes. They are not members of a gang. They are defined by their love of vintage motorcycles, and everybody out there that day remembered them because they were in love with their old bikes. I don’t know why they decided to arrest them and I don’t think my clients have any idea, either.”
www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/more-bikers-file-civil-rights-lawsuits-over-twin-peaks-shootout/article_d1c7f026-3ab6-5bc4-b82c-47b06d7f4c5a.html
Three more bikers arrested after the Twin Peaks shootout in Waco filed a civil rights lawsuit Friday, claiming they were improperly arrested and denied due process.
Theron Rhoten, Jonathan Lopez and Ryan William Craft, all members of the Vice Grip Motorcycle Club from Travis County, bring the total of bikers who have filed civil lawsuits to 13.
All 13 filed suit in federal court in Austin and all are represented by Dallas attorney Don Tittle, who successfully represented nine sheriff’s deputies who sued McLennan County and Sheriff Parnell McNamara on claims they were retaliated against for backing McNamara’s political opponent.
“These three guys have not been indicted, nor should they,” Tittle said. “These are guys who love building and restoring old bikes. They are not members of a gang. They are defined by their love of vintage motorcycles, and everybody out there that day remembered them because they were in love with their old bikes. I don’t know why they decided to arrest them and I don’t think my clients have any idea, either.”
www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/more-bikers-file-civil-rights-lawsuits-over-twin-peaks-shootout/article_d1c7f026-3ab6-5bc4-b82c-47b06d7f4c5a.html