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    9 dead in Waco, Texas, shooting

    Reports: 9 dead in Waco, Texas, shooting

    By Dana Ford, CNN
    Updated 5:10 PM ET, Sun May 17, 2015


    (CNN)Nine people were killed Sunday in a shooting among rival bikers in Waco, Texas, CNN affiliates KXXV and KXTX reported.


    "Multiple injuries to include multiple fatalities," the Waco Police Department said in a post on Facebook. "Officers were on scene when shooting started. No officers have been injured."

    Police said the shooting took place at Twin Peaks restaurant and urged people to avoid the Central Texas Marketplace, a shopping center.


    District Attorney Abel Reyna reportedly told KWTX about two weeks ago that trouble among bikers had been brewing at Twin Peaks for some time.

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    Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, 16 Injured

    By: Lauren Partain, Carlos Garcia and Brandon Marshall

    WACO: (May 17, 2015) Three rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and 17 were injured..

    Waco police Sunday afternoon, assisted by Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in the Central Texas Market Place after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.


    Police and troopers were in the parking lot trying to secure the area and protect citizens when a fight broke out inside the restaurant and spilled into the parking lot.


    Swanton said the fight quickly escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire.


    Gang members were shooting at each other and officers at the scene fired their weapons, as well, Swanton said.


    Other patrons in Twin Peaks and some employees locked themselves in a freezer to escape the fight.


    The scene at the Market Place between Don Carlos and Twin Peaks was absolute chaos, Swanton said.


    "It is one of the most violent scene I've seen in my 34 years as a police officer in Waco," Swanton said.


    Swanton said officers recovered more than 100 weapons from the scene and there were several vehicles that had bullet holes in them.


    Swanton said no officers and no civilians were injured.


    Swanton said police are prepared to deal with any additional bike gang members who choose to come to Waco.


    The 18 victims were taken by ambulance to Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest Medical Center, which later was placed on lock down, but officials at Hillcrest said they had no comment.


    Later reports indicated one of those taken to Hillcrest died there.


    He also said police have been trying to work with management at Twin Peaks for several weeks but have been thwarted in their efforts to avoid a situation like happened Sunday afternoon.


    A witness who was having lunch across the parking lot at Don Carlos Mexican Restaurant said he and his family had just finished eating and walked into the parking lot when they heard several gunshots and saw wounded being taken from the fight scene.


    "We crouched down in front of our pick-up truck because that was the only cover we had," the man, who asked not to be identified, said.


    He and his family were traveling to Salina, Kansas and decided to stop for lunch.


    He said he saw several wounded men being treated.

    He also said there were several police officers at the scene and ambulances were responding to the scene to aid those hit by gunfire.

    At about 2 p.m. a second scene was being investigated at the Waco Convention Center but only very few details were known about the situation there.


    One law enforcement spokesman said there were several armed officers and EMS units on the scene and Washington Avenue and University Parks Drive in that area had been closed.


    A News 10 photographer who was at the convention center said he witnessed several men being arrested there.


    Officers also were en route to the Flying J Truck Stop, at New Road and Interstate 35 because a large number of bikers had been seen gathering there.


    Swanton said the scene at Twin Peaks is "as secure as it can be right now," Swanton said, but police are concerned that groups who were involved in the first incident may be moving to other locations in and around Waco where more violence could erupt.


    Swanton said citizens should avoid the area until an all clear can be issued.


    The Interstate 35 exit onto Loop 340 southbound is closed, as is the access road that runs alongside the Interstate.


    "We have multiple medical and law enforcement resources in the area who are dealing with the issue," Swanton said.


    Ambulances from West, Limestone and Coryell counties were at the scene to assist local EMS units.


    Trouble at Twin Peaks among rival bikers had been brewing for some time, District Attorney Abel Reyna told News 10 about two weeks ago.


    Reyna said local police were on heightened alert in anticipation of trouble on Thursday nights, when Twin Peaks hosts a Biker Night.


    Reyna said some weeks ago trouble erupted between two local motorcycle gangs and that spilled over into gangs from the Dallas-Fort Worth area showing up to support the local groups.

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    Waco shootout: who are the Bandidos motorcycle gang?

    The Texas-based group has 900 members across the US but one expert says that contrary to their ‘lovable outlaw’ image they are a serious criminal organisation


    A member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang, who pride themselves on being the ‘baddest of the bad’. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

    Raya Jalabi in New York

    Monday 18 May 201513.45

    “We’re the people your parents warned you about,” reads an old Bandidos motto.
    Nine dead and 18 injured in Waco, Texas biker gang shooting – in pictures


    Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Authorities say that the shootout victims were members of rival biker gangs that had gathered for a meeting
    Photograph: Jerry Larson/AP



    Waco police sergeant W Patrick Swanton described to local reporters what he said was ‘the most violent crime scene I have ever been involved in’
    Photograph: Waco Police Dept/EPA



    Law enforcement officers chat to a man near the parking lot of the restaurant
    Photograph: Rod Aydelotte/AP



    Those injured suffered stab and gunshot wounds, police said
    Photograph: Rod Aydelotte/AP


    After the biker gang was one of five involved in a shootout in Waco,Texas, which left nine dead and 18 injured on Sunday, your parents are probably not the only people warning you to steer clear of the Bandidos’ path.

    The shootout, which began shortly after midday in a shopping center, involved 200 gang members, nearly 100 weapons – including guns and knives – and hundreds of shell casings left behind on the blood-stained parking lot floor.

    Though police aren’t specifically naming the groups involved, the McLennan county sheriff, Parnell McNamara, whose office is involved in the investigation, said all nine who were killed were members of either the Bandidos or the Cossacks gangs.
    “Bandidos pride themselves on being the baddest of the bad,” Julian Sher, an investigative journalist who has written several books on biker gangs, told the Guardian.

    In the Waco brawl, the Bandidos are the most important criminal outfit, he said, with the other members local small fry who are “very meaningless on a global scale”. In photographs of the arrests, men could be seen wearing uniforms of the Bandidos, Cossacks and Scimitars biker gangs.

    The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is considered one of the world’s largest biker gangs, with as many as 2,500 members in 13 countries, according to the US Department of Justice. They are second only to the more renowned Hells Angels in terms of their power, global reach and levels of violence.



    Motorcycles remain at the scene of the shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas. Photograph: Waco police department/ReutersIn a 2014 gang threat assessment, the Texas department of public safety classified the group as a “Tier 2 threat”, the second highest. This gives the group a similar ranking to the Bloods, Crips and Aryan Brotherhood, who the report says are collectively “responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime across urban, suburban and rural areas of Texas”.

    The US DoJ considers the Bandidos – with their 900 US members belonging to roughly 93 chapters – to be a growing criminal threat to US law enforcement, as the gang continues to actively expand, by allowing supporting clubs and members to swear allegiance to the Bandidos mother club.

    According to Steve Cook, a Kansas City law enforcement officer who says he worked undercover in a motorcycle gang in the early 2000s, Texas is an emerging battleground for outlaw motorcycle gangs.

    “We were pretty certain that some kind of incident was on the horizon,” Cook told Vox. Cook, the executive director of the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association, is due to hold a conference on Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs for local police in Waco next month.

    The Bandidos originated in Texas, and have always been a Texas-based outfit, Sher said. According to Bandidos lore, the group was founded in March 1966 by Donald Chambers, a 36-year-old working on the docks in Houston, who grew bored of various Houston-area motorcycle clubs.

    According to one of his first recruits, Chambers “wanted the badass bikers who cared about nothing except riding full time on their Harley-Davidsons. He wanted bikers who lived only for the open road. No rules, no bullshit, just the open road.”

    In the decades immediately after the second world war, motorcycle clubs and gangs were seen as an informal means for disaffected young men to combat war trauma and alienation from the countries they left behind, according to William L Dulaney in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.

    Motorcycle clubs and biker gangs have been accused of flouting laws since at least 1947, when 4,000 motorcyclists flocked to Hollister, California, and were found to be drunk and disorderly, gaining national attention. The Hells Angels were founded one year later.

    The founding ethos of the gang may have been, “just the open road”, but the Bandidos have grown into one of the largest domestic crime syndicates in the US. Bandidos are involved in transporting and distributing cocaine and marijuana, according to the DoJ, and are involved in the production, transportation and distribution of methamphetamine. A 2013 FBI report linked the Bandidos to Los Zetas, the notorious Mexican cartel.

    The Waco shootout is but the latest in a long list of public violence involving biker gangs. Don Chambers was arrested in 1972 alongside two other Bandidos for killing two drug dealers in El Paso. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, as part of a wave of imprisonments of bike gang leaders in the 1970s.

    But the past three decades have seen bursts of biker gang violence. Almost every major bike war involved the Bandidos. More than 160 people were killed over several years in the Quebec biker war of the late 1990s and 2000s, and in the Great Nordic war of the mid-1990s, in which Hells Angels fought Bandidos in Scandinavia, 12 people were killed and hundreds injured. A violent shootout in Australia, which came to be known as the Milperra Massacre, killed seven and wounded 28 near Sydney in 1984.

    The Waco incident will not tarnish their image, Sher said. It might even help bolster their recruitment. According to Sher, the Bandidos’ recruits, like other similar biker gangs, are young men (women are barred) in their 20s, who are mostly white and often racist.

    “If you join the Bandidos, even if you’re not a criminal, you’re going to be hanging out with criminals,” said Sher. “It’s a criminal network.”

    Though gang leaders routinely got arrested, biker gangs, unlike the mafia, did not have a pyramid structure, Sher said. “They have leaders but each chapter is very autonomous. The shooting won’t affect other chapters around the country or the world.”

    He added: “Bandidos are calling themselves bandits. They saw the Hells Angels as ‘too soft’. They are criminals and we should be taking people for what they are.”

    Sher decried a certain “romantic appeal” that seemingly imbues popular American perceptions of biker gangs, particularly in movies and television. From the 1953 Marlon Brandon film The Wild One to Sons of Anarchy, a hugely popular television show which centers on a California motorcycle club, motorcycle gangs have long been a part of the American cinematic landscape.

    “Bikers fit into the narrative of the ‘lovable outlaw’, the Clint Eastwood loner or rebel, the Easy Rider,” Sher said. “It’s a big part of the American tradition. Whereas in Europe and Canada, bikers are seen as criminals, in the US, they are seen as rebels who are occasionally involved in criminality.”

    But “biker gangs are America’s crime export to the world”, Sher said.

    The Bandidos did not immediately return a request for comment.

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-waco-shootout



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    At least 9 dead in Texas biker brawl; 170+ arrested

    Biker gang shootout kills 9 outside Waco, Texas, restaurant

    By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Holly Yan, CNN
    Updated 5:52 PM ET, Mon May 18, 2015

    Waco, Texas (CNN)The biker gang members who began beating, stabbing and shooting each other in a Texas Twin Peaks restaurant knew the police were outside; they just didn't care, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Monday.

    By the time the Sunday melee was over, at least nine people were dead, 18 were hospitalized and the arrest tally stood at 192.
    For two months, police concerned with the bikers' presence at Twin Peaks, which hosted special events for its leather-clad clientele, had patrolled outside -- and not in plain clothes and unmarked cars, either.
    "We wanted our presence to be known," Swanton told reporters. "They knew we were seconds away and going to respond. That mattered not to them."
    The United Clubs of Waco billed Sunday's event as the Texas Region 1 Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting. Before the restaurant and surrounding parking lots became a bloody battleground, the Waco Police Department had 18 officers on the scene, including an assistant chief and tactical officers, along with four officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Swanton said.
    An altercation in the bathroom seems to have sparked the violence. Shots were fired inside the eatery and a brawl spilled onto the patio area, before scores of men flooded the parking lot in broad daylight. Some bikers were beaten with brass knuckles, clubs and chains, while others were stabbed or shot, Swanton said.


    Informant: Gangs will be at war 'as long as they exist' 02:06

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    When police responded -- within 30 to 45 seconds because of their proximity -- the bikers turned their weapons on law enforcement, he said.
    "Our officers took fire and responded appropriately, returning fire," the sergeant said.
    As police rounded up suspects and paramedics tended to the injured, investigators found eight bodies -- three in the parking lot behind Twin Peaks, four near the front of the restaurant and one that had been dragged behind a nearby establishment, Swanton said. More than 100 weapons were confiscated as well, he said.
    Another victim died at a hospital, where doctors treated patients for gunshots, stab wounds, blunt-force trauma or some combination of the three.
    According to a law enforcement source, preliminary information indicates that four of the bikers killed were killed by police gunfire. The investigation continues and the ballistics will be analyzed to determine for certain who was responsible for each shooting.
    A capital murder case

    Swanton called it "the most violent and gruesome scene that I have dealt with" in three and a half decades of law enforcement.
    The scores of suspects, who hail from five different biker gangs, remained locked up in the McLellan County Jail on Monday facing charges of engaging in organized crime, Swanton said.


    Police: Out-of-state bikers might join 'gang brothers' 01:20

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    Prosecutors and investigators could level other charges -- and capital murder charges are expected to be among them, given the body count -- but the organized crime charge is "pretty serious," he said.
    "It doesn't get much more significant than that," he said.
    Swanton would not release the names of the gangs involved. Photos from the scene showed bikers wearing the insignias of the Cossacks, Bandidos, Scimitars and Vaqueros, but it was not clear if the photographed gang members were involved in the fighting.
    While the U.S. Justice Department characterizes the Bandidos as a "growing criminal threat" with at least 2,000 members in 14 countries, the motorcycle club's website highlights noncriminal endeavors such as its Easter party in Germany or its toy drive in France.
    The Justice Department had no such synopsis for the Cossacks, but the book "The One Percenter Encyclopedia: The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite" says they were founded in Texas in 1969 and have a major presence in Australia.
    Bandidos President Jack Lewis was released on $125,000 bond in December 2013 after being charged with the stabbing of two Cossacks outside a restaurant in Abilene, Texas, KTXS reported.
    The country's most notorious biker gangs
    As Swanton briefed reporters at the crime scene Monday afternoon, 24 hours after the brawl, he said tactical units remained on the scene to protect journalists and investigators. Police hoped to finish processing the scene by sundown, he said.
    Franchise revoked

    The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission shut down the Twin Peaks location, known for "bike nights" and its risque dress code for servers, for the next week. It wasn't a punitive measure, Swanton said; rather, it was closed because there's "enough of a reason to believe that more violence would occur there, had they been allowed to remain open for the next seven-day period," he said.
    Later Monday morning, the commission said it was suspending the restaurant's liquor license for those seven days while its agents investigate what happened. The investigation could yield anything from a fine to the permanent revocation of Twin Peaks' liquor license, commission spokesman Chris Porter said.
    There have been no previous complaints or actions taken against the eatery, he added.
    Twin Peaks' corporate management initially issued a statement offering condolences but later sided with police, who Swanton said had warned the restaurant's managers of the potential for violence and sought their cooperation in staving it off, to no avail.

    A law enforcement officer walks through the parking lot near the scene of the shooting.

    "We are in the people business and the safety of the employees and guests in our restaurants is priority one," the restaurant chain's statement read. "Unfortunately the management team of the franchised restaurant in Waco chose to ignore the warnings and advice from both the police and our company, and did not uphold the high security standards we have in place to ensure everyone is safe at our restaurants."
    It further said the corporate office would be "revoking their franchise agreement immediately. Our sympathies continue to be with the families of those who died and are very thankful no employees, guests, police officers or bystanders were hurt or injured.​"
    The Waco restaurant's Facebook account, which had been a landing page for harsh criticism of the franchise, was deleted shortly thereafter.
    Trouble brewing?

    Earlier this month, McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna told KWTX-TV that local police were on heightened alert for possible trouble on Thursday nights, when Twin Peaks hosted bike nights. Reyna said trouble between two local motorcycle gangs heated up when bikers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area got involved.
    Swanton slammed Twin Peaks after the bloodshed Sunday, saying the franchise failed to help avoid trouble and ignored the police department's advice to try to keep biker gangs away from the restaurant.
    "Are we frustrated? Sure, because we feel like there may have been more that could have been done by a business to prevent this," Swanton said.
    He said Twin Peaks has a right to deny entry to known biker gangs.


    Police anticipated trouble before biker gang shootout 01:23

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    "They absolutely have a right to refuse service to people that may be a harm to their patrons and employees," he told KTVT. "They didn't do that, and today is the ultimate aftermath of what their decision was."
    Before word came of the franchise being revoked, Jay Patel, operating partner at the Waco Twin Peaks, said his staff was cooperating with police.
    "We are horrified by the criminal, violent acts that occurred outside of our Waco restaurant today," Patel said Sunday night on Facebook. "We share in the community's trauma."
    Swanton later responded, calling that statement a "fabrication."
    Even after the chaos subsided, Waco police continued arresting people arriving at the scene with weapons.
    Swanton warned other biker gang members against coming to Waco to reignite the violence.
    "We have been getting reports throughout the day that bikers from out of state are headed this way," he told KTVT on Sunday. "We would encourage them not to, because we have plenty of space in our county jail to put them there."
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    JohnDoe2 - Good article, thank you for posting.

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    White-On-White Crime Strikes Again In Waco

    Posted: 05/18/2015 1:16 pm EDT Updated: 4 hours ago

    Following a spate of white-on-white violence over the weekend in Waco, Texas, thatclaimed nine lives and resulted in scores of casualties and over 190 arrests, there has been a marked lack of interest in talking about where the event fits into the epidemic of such white criminal behavior in the U.S. -- despite the fact that every year, more white people are murdered by white people than by any other group.

    In recent years, a national pattern has begun to emerge in the wake of shootings in which a black man is killed by a white man. Of course the death is a tragedy, goes the narrative, but the dead man probably provoked the killing somehow -- and more importantly, if you truly care about young black men, why aren't you more concerned about black-on-black violence?

    The same pattern doesn't hold even when white-on-white crime unfolds in full view of the nation, as it did in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks Restaurant on Sunday.

    Yet white-on-white crime should be a huge concern -- because it’s out of control. Granted, there are 201 thugs off the streets for the time being, but what about the rest of them?


    Around 83 percent of white victims in 2011 were murdered by other whites, based on the most recent FBI homicide data.


    As many as 3,172 white people were killed in 2011 -- and 2,630 of them lost their lives at the hands of another white person.

    This is compared to 2,695 black people, 2,447 of whom were killed by another black person.

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    This Photo Is Raising Questions About How Police Are Treating White Bikers After A Mass Murder

    BY JUDD LEGUM POSTED ON MAY 17, 2015 AT 10:00 PM


    Nine dead and 18 injured in Waco, Texas biker gang shooting – in pictures

    Today, a massive gunfight between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas left at least 9 people dead and 18 injured. “In 34 years of law enforcement, this is the worst crime scene, the most violent crime scene I have ever been involved in,” Waco Police Sargent Patrick Swanton said.

    The police have not named the gangs involved, but images taken after the massacre appear to show members of the Bandidos and the Cossacks, among other gangs, who have a history of violent confrontations in the area. The gang members reportedly opened fire on the police when they arrived at the scene.


    Many of the individuals involved appear to be white, including some with white supremacist tattoos and patches. One image, in particular, is raising question about whether the suspects would be treated differently if they were minorities:


    Several commentators have noted that it’s a remarkably casual treatment of individuals who could be potential suspects for mass murder. No one is handcuffed and several people appear to have access to their cell phones.

    It’s not known if any of the individuals in the photo played a direct role in the violence.


    The image, of course, does not depict the full extent of the police response. The Los Angeles Times reported that, out of 150-200 bikers on the scene, “sheriff’s deputies were holding about 20 people wearing leather motorcycle vests — with their boots removed and in flex cuffs — in the parking lot.”


    Many drew comparisons to Baltimore where police deployed tear gas against protesters and the National Gaurd was deployed. Although looting and vandalism occured, no one was killed during the Freddie Gray protests.

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    Texas police shot bikers during Waco gang brawl that left 9 dead, police say




    Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. Authorities say that the shootout victims were members of rival biker gangs that had gathered for a meeting. (AP Photo/Jerry Larson)
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    on May 17, 2015 at 8:19 PM, updated May 18, 2015 at 9:58 AM


    WACO, Texas — At least some of the bikers involved in a gang fight Sunday that left nine people dead and 18 injured were shot by police, authorities said.


    The violence erupted shortly after noon at a busy Waco shopping center along Interstate 35 that draws a large lunchtime crowd. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said eight people died at the scene of the shooting at Twin Peaks restaurant and another person died at a hospital.


    Preliminary findings indicate a dispute broke out in a bathroom and then spilled into the restaurant where it escalated to include knives and firearms, he said. There were 150 to 200 gang members inside the restaurant at the time.


    During the melee, officers shot armed bikers, Swanton said, adding that the actions of law enforcement prevented further deaths. It was not known if any of the nine dead were killed by police officers.


    Police fired upon bikers when weapons were pointed toward them, police told the Austin American-Statesman. However, amid the chaos, it wasn't wasn't clear who shot whom.


    No officers were injured, police said.


    The nine killed were all members of biker gangs, he said, as were the 18 people who were taken to hospitals with injuries that include stab and gunshot wounds. Some victims are being treated for both, he said.


    "This is probably one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've ever seen in my 34 years of law enforcement," Swanton said, later adding, "I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured."


    "This is probably one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've ever seen in my 34 years of law enforcement," Swanton said, later adding, "I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured."

    Dozens of motorcycles were parked in a nearby lot Sunday. Bodies were found in the parking lot of Twin Peaks and in another adjacent lot for a family restaurant.


    "Dozens" of suspected gang members have been detained, Swanton said.


    Swanton said at least five rival gangs gathered at Twin Peaks for a meeting that he said focused on turf and recruitment, two areas where the groups have often clashed.


    Police were aware of the meeting in advance, and at least 12 Waco officers in addition to state troopers were outside the restaurant, part of a national chain that features scantily clad waitresses, when the fight began.


    Swanton said that the restaurant's operators also were aware of the meeting in advance and would not cooperate with authorities.


    "Apparently the management (of Twin Peaks) wanted them here and so we didn't have any say-so on whether they could be here or not," Swanton said.


    Multiple attempts to contact Twin Peaks for comment were not immediately successful.


    Three armed gang members were later arrested when they attempted to enter the shooting scene to retaliate against rival members, he said. Officers with numerous law enforcement agencies were seen parked along the service road for I-35 near the city. Swanton said authorities are increasing security in the area to prevent further violence among the gangs.


    Swanton declined to identify the gangs but many men wearing vests inscribed with the words "Bandidos" or "Cossacks" were seen in the area.


    In addition to local and state police, agents from the FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also at the scene about an hour and a half south of Dallas.

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