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Yesterday, a federal district judge and
part time birthday clown named Alan Albright in Waco, Texas ruled that
it is all perfectly legal to indict scores of people on identical,
mimeographed charges and hold them on bail conditions that amount to
summary, six figure fines as long as they are signed by an admitted liar
with only hearsay knowledge of the accusations he swears to be true.
The plaintiffs in the case allege that
the city of Waco, McLennan County, and various local government and
police officials flagrantly and maliciously conspired to deprive the
lawsuit complainants of their constitutional rights after a very violent
brawl at the Twin Peaks restaurant n Waco on May 17, 2015.
The respondents in the case include
former police chief Brent Stroman; former district attorney Abelino
Reyna; assistant police chief Robert Lanning; Waco gsng expert Jeffrey
Rogers; Waco police public information officer Patrick Swanton;
Department of Public Safety Lieutenant Steven Schwartz; DPS special
agent Christopher Frost; and Manuel Chavez, who admittedly committed
perjury when he signed 177 criminal complaints he knew nothing about
after being ordered to do so by Reyna.
Legalese
The complainants allege violations of
their constitutional rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The individual respondents argued their freedom from the consequences of
their actions under a legal doctrine called “qualified immunity” which
is a sort of get out of jail free card for cops.
Judge Albright ruled that the
complainants could not allege violations of their liberty under the
Fourteenth Amendment but could complain that their Four Amendment right
“to be free from arrest unless the arrest is supported by either a
properly issued arrest warrant or probable cause,” could be asserted.
Albright also ruled that it had not
become possible to seek relief under a claim of a Fourth Amendment
violation for deliberate fabrication of evidence until four months after
the complainants filed their suits. Consequently, technically, the
plaintiffs couldn’t sue.
Albright’s 23-page ruling is worm eaten
with that sort of sophistry as if justice is a petty game. Albright is a
Waco local and by his words he appears to be a vital member of the
local political criminal enterprise.
Casualties
Casualties
In all, Albright dismissed lawsuits
filed by 45 survivors of the Twin Peaks Ambush; the widely publicized
“Twin Peaks Biker Brawl” that occurred when members of the Cossacks
Motorcycle Club ambushed members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club as they
tried to park before attending a meeting of the Texas Confederation of
Clubs and Independents.
Police and officials began hiding
evidence and propagandizing news of the incident minutes after it ended.
There is strong circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that the tragedy
was instigated and abetted by local, state and federal police to advance
a federal investigation into the Bandidos. When the ambush turned out
to be worse than its inept planners intended it to be a vast coverup
began and the casualties of that coverup were far more numerous than the
casualties of the brawl.
After Albright’s ruling, Todd Brandt who
is the lawyer defending both the city of Waco and Reyna told Tommy
Witherspoon of the Waco Tribune-Herald that the ruling was a “harbinger” of “future rulings involving cases filed by other bikers who also were indicted.”
“We are thrilled with this ruling,” Brandt told the Tribune-Herald. “We think the judge got it right and we think we will win on any appeal.”
Don Tittle, who represents many of the
Twin Peaks survivors, remained optimistic. He told Witherspoon,
“Ultimately, this was always going to be determined by the Court of
Appeals. The only thing the judge’s ruling really changes is whether we
are the party bringing the appeal or the one responding to it. Either
way, the ruling was going to end up on appeal.”
