Nine dead bikers.
27 men wounded.
177 people arrested on Conspiracy charges, and given bail of $1 million,
NOT BY A JUDGE, but by a Justice of the Peace.
It is not clear who killed who.
However, this is one of the worst massacres in American history - which involved Police directly - and it has barely been covered by the media.
The day of, and the day after, there were some reports which relied almost exclusively on the Waco Police Dept. version of the events.
Now, FINALLY, the Associated Press has done some actual investigative journalism and has jumped into the real action.
From Aging Rebel:
Despite the continued, determined efforts of the Waco police, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to criminally cover up the worst episode of “biker violence” in American History, the truth keeps leaking out
Emily Schmall (photo above), a correspondent with The Associated Press, reported this morning that most of the shots fired during the Waco massacre were fired by police. Schmall is a seasoned and impeccably responsible journalist who has also written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, the MiamiHerald, Forbes, Bloomberg News, the Guardian and the BBC.
Schmall reports that “a few pistol shots” was immediately followed by “a barrage of rifle fire.” The AP’s account conforms to numerous accounts given to The Aging Rebelbeginning about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on May 17. The next morning this page reported, “Multiple sources have told The Aging Rebel that all of the dead were killed by police.”
The AP version differs significantly from an account published in the Washington Post, which said that the first five men killed were Cossacks shot in cold blood by Bandidos. Since its publication, the Post has neither advanced its story nor retracted it.
The AP account also differs from the Waco police version. On May 19, Waco police spokesman W. Patrick Swanton stated that only “three or four” of at least 22 police officers surrounding the restaurant fired shots. Swanton also stated that it was “too early” to know if any of those shots killed bikers and that the officers who discharged their weapons had remained on duty. Waco police are now stonewalling journalists. The AP version also conforms to most eyewitness accounts of the incident.
Schmall quotes three recent veterans who have the experience to hear the difference between gunshots from different caliber weapons. Marine veteran William English remembers two shots from a small caliber weapon followed by “a rapid succession of shots from what sounded to me like an assault rifle.”
Navy veteran Steve Cochran “heard one pistol shot. All the rest of the shots I heard were assault rifles.”
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