Twin Peaks shooting case ends: no one held accountable

DA dismisses remaining 24 Twin Peaks biker cases

Other than the fact that numerous innocent bystanders could have been wounded or killed, my first response is fuck it. The DA is right. And if the families of anyone killed or wounded want to piss and moan, I would remind them that their loved ones choose a certain lifestyle that opened themselves up to the possibility of these kind of results. Don't want to get caught in the cross-fire between two bands of thugs? Don't run with the thugs.

 

None of the families will gripe. Witness Steve Scalise, who still loves guns and stands by his favorite terrorist organization, the NRA.
The gun crowd loves guns more than anything else.

 

Dougie Jones loves coffee just as much as Agent Cooper does. Remember that.

 

At least they all died doing what they loved, praise Jesus.

 

The DA who dismissed the charges is not the original joke-of-a-DA who originally filed the exact same charges on the 100-plus bikers who were there that day. That clown got his ass kicked in the last election, losing by 20 percentage points. I knew the longer this thing dragged out that there would never be a conviction. One guy went to trial, and that ended in a mistrial. His charges were dropped today, too.

 

What was the issue? That there were so many bullets flying that there was no way to pin anything on any individual biker? The cops must have completely bollocksed the crime scene, plus the mass arrest and prlonged jailing of the bikers. Complete botch job.

 

The courts should do what the feds did with the Mongols. Seize the trademark on their patches. That will get at these types far worse than prison.

 

After all those civil suits the bikers filed against the DA, the cops, the city, etc., etc., get settled (and they will, for big $$$$), they won't need the proceeds from the trademark … :0

 

It's not really about proceeds from the trademark. In the biker world, there is nothing more sacred than their patch and rockers. They will literally fight and die for their insignia. If you walk into a group of one percenters and spit in someone's face, you'll taking a beating beyond compare. If you walk into the same group and spit on the back of one of their cuts, you probably won't make it three more steps before you're dead.

That's why the feds went after the Mongols' patch. Going to jail is small beans compared to the dishonor of being pulled over and forced to surrender your patch because the feds have the trademark rights.

 

Of course seizing the trademark/patches is unconstitutional overreach. Living in a free country means you sometimes can't limit behavior that is unpopular.

Mongols motorcycle club defeats U.S. bid to seize patches

 

Prosecutorial misconduct and incompetence. Oh and most of the shooting and killing was done by the police not the bikers.

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