Posts Tagged ‘Vaqueros Motorcycle Gang’
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
And here’s still more information that’s dribbled out on Sunday’s Waco biker shootout:
A complete list of bikers arrested after the Waco shootout.
Security camera footage from the restaurant shown to the media but not released to the public (thanks a lot) shows members of the Cossacks, as well as members of “Scimitars, Boozefighters and Leathernecks.” Previous reports hadn’t listed the Boozefighters, who have a colorful history (they claim they were the inspiration for the movie The Wild One) but claim today “We are very patriotic & support the US military. We strive to do our best to continually improve ourselves, our Club, and the communities we live in.”
For those keeping track on the home game, motorcycle clubs/gangs listed as having been at the Waco shootout include: Bandidos, Coassacks, Scimitars, Vaqueros, Pirados, Leathernecks, Boozefighters and Veterans. Which is eight groups, though initial reports said five.
The names of the dead from the Waco biker shootout have been released, including two (Jesus Delgado Rodriguez and Manuel Issac Rodriguez) with Hispanic surnames.
Also make that at least two black bikers arrested after the Waco shootout. Bonus: One is an ex San Antonio cop.
I can understand the Waco police’s impulse not to give out the names of the biker gangs involved so as not to give them more publicity. However, in today’s media environment this is an essentially meaningless gesture
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Boozefighters Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, Leathernecks Motorcycle Gang, Manuel Issac Rodriguez, Pirados Motorcycle Gang, Scimitars Motorcycle Gang, Texas, Vaqueros Motorcycle Gang, Waco
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
And still more on the biker gang shootout in Waco that left nine people dead:
According to The Wall Street journal:
The tensions reached a boil recently when some Cossacks members began wearing a patch with the word “Texas” emblazoned at the bottom of their biker jackets and vests.
Those “bottom rocker” patches, as they are called in biker parlance, were a direct affront to the Bandidos, a larger gang with a long history of criminal activity in several states, Mr. Cook said. The Bandidos had claimed the sole right to display the patch as a sign of their turf, he said.
“The fact that the Cossacks would put on a bottom rocker with the state of Texas is basically saying, ‘We don’t respect you, and we won’t answer to you,’ ” Mr. Cook said. “It was a powder keg.”
So if Mr. Cook is correct, nine people just got killed over this:
“Steve Cook, a police detective in Independence, Mo., who heads the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association—a nongovernmental group of law enforcement experts that tracks biker gang activity and shares intelligence among members.” And ironically, he was already scheduled to hold a seminar on outlaw biker gangs in Waco in June…
Although initial pictures of detained bikers them to be overwhelmingly white, eleven of the mugshots show people with Hispanic surnames, and one of the suspects appears to be black. America: So diverse even scumbag outlaw motorcycle gangs are integrated!
This report says that members of the Vaqueros were involved in the fight. Assuming that this website is for the same gang, they claim to be “family men engaged in legitimate business.” Fat Tony nods approvingly.
Here’s a piece on a Bandidos funeral from 2007. “Bandidos parked their bikes and began hugging and kissing one another on the mouth—the traditional Bandido greeting.” Uh huh…
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Texas, Vaqueros Motorcycle Gang, Waco
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