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malaise

(297,391 posts)
Mon May 18, 2015, 08:36 AM May 2015

So the police in Texas have said that they are facing serious threats from the [View all]

gangs involved in the shoot out yesterday. How the M$Greedia covering yesterday or these threats.
The mall is closed and so is the restaurant...for the rest of the week.

Any outcry from local businessmen yet...you know a la Baltimore????
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http://www.vox.com/2015/5/17/8618899/waco-biker-gang-shooting
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All the same, police consider them to be more threatening than their small numbers might suggest. About 10 percent of jurisdictions said they considered the motorcycle gangs a serious threat.

Cook thinks that law enforcement should be more concerned. "I think a lot of people just don’t take these guys seriously," he says. "They just look at them and say they’re bikers and they ride motorcycles and they’re tattooed and they’re dirty, and that’s the end of it."

But he calls them domestic terrorists. "They can pretend like they’re these fraternal organizations," he said. "I can’t tell you the last time the Kiwanis and the Shriners had a shootout at a public venue."

The Department of Justice portrays the gangs as the Mafia on motorcycles, saying they traffic in cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription drugs: in Indianapolis in 2013, federal agents arrested 42 members of the Outlaws gang on charges that included drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering.
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