{"id":153530,"date":"2015-05-22T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153530"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:20:26","slug":"nowhere-near-1000-guns-waco-police-revise-weapons-haul-biker-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nowhere-near-1000-guns-waco-police-revise-weapons-haul-biker-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere near 1,000 guns: Waco police revise weapons haul from biker shoot-out"},"content":{"rendered":"

(RT<\/a>) – Police admit they exaggerated the number of weapons seized from biker gangs at a Waco restaurant following a shoot-out last Sunday that killed 9 people. Initial claims of 1000 weapons were revised to just over 300, including 118 handguns and an AK rifle.<\/p>\n

Waco police Sergeant Patrick Swanton initially spoke of \u201c1000
\nweapons<\/em>\u201d found in and around the Twin Peaks restaurant, but
\nissued a correction on the police department\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, clarifying that the actual
\nhaul was not quite so sensational.<\/p>\n

\n

Waco Revisionism: Police Retract ‘1,000 Weapons’ Claim, 4 of
\nDead Had No Texas Criminal Records http:\/\/t.co\/80rqvHpsrh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013 Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) May
\n21, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe first number I gave this morning was a best guess
\nestimate from looking at the overall crime scene and was over
\nestimated<\/em>,\u201d Swanton wrote. \u201cMy apologies for the
\nconfusion, and I should have waited to release a more specific
\ncount; not estimate.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, police have recovered 318 weapons in total \u2014 including
\n118 handguns, 157 knives, and 43 other weapons, such as brass
\nknuckles and chains. One of the \u201cother\u201d weapons seized was an
\nAK-47 assault rifle, found in a parked car along with body armor,
\nthe police have said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do expect the numbers to continue to rise<\/em>,\u201d Swanton
\nadded.<\/p>\n

According to sergeant Swanton, weapons have been found \u201cin
\nsacks of chips, stuffed between bags of flour, stuffed into the
\nbench seating, hidden in shelves, thrown into trash cans, placed
\nin the kitchen stoves, discarded on floors and even so far as to
\nattempt to flush a handgun down a commode<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preliminary findings indicate that the dispute initially broke
\nout in the bathroom, and then quickly escalated to include knives
\nand firearms as it spilled out into the parking lot.<\/p>\n

According to McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara, all nine
\nof those killed were members of either the Bandidos or Cossacks
\ngangs. Their identities have not yet been released. Eighteen
\nothers were wounded. Initial reports spoke of at least 50 weapons
\nrecovered from the scene, including brass knuckles, knives, and
\nclubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t your church-going crowd that came out to have
\ndinner with the family<\/em>,\u201d Sergeant Swanton told the Houston
\nChronicle. \u201cThis is a gang-oriented criminal element that was
\nin our city to conduct criminal activity<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Breitbart Texas, however, the meeting was a
\nlegitimate political gathering organized by the biker group Texas
\nConfederation of Clubs and Independents (CoC&I). The
\nconservative news site cited<\/a> reports from local media claiming only
\none of the victims was a local resident, and quoted a witness to
\nthe melee who blamed the Cossacks biker gang for crashing the
\nevent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese meetings have gone on for 20 years, and we\u2019ve gone all
\nthese years without a single incident until Sunday,<\/em>\u201d the
\nWaco Tribune-Herald quoted Steve Cochran, described as a national
\nbikers\u2019 rights advocate.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press confirmed that four of the nine dead had no
\ncriminal record in Texas.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(RT) – Police admit they exaggerated the number of weapons seized from biker gangs at a Waco restaurant following a shoot-out last Sunday that killed 9 people. Initial claims of 1000 weapons were revised to just over 300, including 118 handguns and an AK rifle. Waco police Sergeant Patrick Swanton initially spoke of \u201c1000 weapons\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}