A publication supporting the rights, safety and freedom of all motorcyclists through education and legislation
October 2015
VOLUME XXIV, ISSUE VI
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the waco mess continues
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Interview Reveals Even Former Cops See Corruption in Waco
The Message of the interview is quite clearly that the suffering of the innocent outweighs the interest in persecuting the guilty.
2015-08-29_8-15-07Schilaro interviews nationally recognized spokesperson David “Double D” Devereaux and Jim Barr, the current Coordinator for Long Island ABATE. The interview is fair, balanced and reveals that even former law enforcement officers understand the huge problem with obviously over-broad arrests, lack of particularized suspicion, punitive bail, and the lack of information being released to the media and the public.
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The following interview concerning the Waco incident took place July 26, 2015 on a Long Island News Radio (103.9 FM) program called “Eye On Crime”. The program is hosted by Tom Schilaro, a former NY police officer for 20 years and current criminal justice instructor.
Attachment-1This interview discusses only what we currently know about Waco and diverts discussion away from conjecture or
conspiracy. The message of the interview is quite clearly that the suffering of the innocent outweighs the interest in persecuting the guilty. We simply don’t sacrifice the civil liberties of innocent people to punish the guilty in a free society. Listen to the interview here: http://tinyurl.com/oll492o
============================== Reprinted from The Associated Press
WACO — The secrecy that enshrouds the investigation into a biker shootout in May that left nine people dead and led to the mass arrest of 177 people is hardly surprising in this city, where public scrutiny is rare and unwelcome.
On the banks of the Brazos River in Central Texas, Waco and the surrounding county are largely run by a close-knit circle of judges, prosecutors and law enforcement that defense lawyers complain leads local agencies to close ranks in the aftermath of this most recent calamity.
It's a city where a district judge and district attorney are former law partners, the mayor is the son of a former mayor, the sheriff comes from a long line of lawmen and Waco pio-
neers and the sheriff's brother is the district attorney's chief investigator.
Bikers and public watchdogs have criticized authorities here for how they've handled the investigation, citing the mass arrests in which people were held for days or weeks on $1 million bonds without sufficient evidence to support such actions four months after the shootings. No formal charges have been made, and it remains unclear whose bullets, including police bullets, struck the dead and injured, or when cases will be presented to a grand jury, which is currently led by a Waco police detective.
"I don't know of any defense lawyer who hasn't looked at the facts of this case and gasped," said Grant Scheiner, a criminal defense attorney in Houston not connected to the bikers' case. Waco police, McLennan County prosecutors and judges refused to comment — citing a gag order written by the DA — but law enforcement staunchly defend their actions, including the 12 shots that the police chief said officers fired into the melee after bikers allegedly opened fire on them.
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