I live within an hour's drive of all this.
I think they over-reacted by arresting almost 200 bikers right afterwards. Fortunately, it did cool the tension and prevent a gang war from breaking out later that night.
Most of them arrested were gang members, and since these specific gangs are criminal gangs, they can get a lot of them on organized crime charges. I believe some of them were wanted for other things, too. Most of them could be visually identified with their gangs: tattoos, colors, etc. It was not an "Arrest any bikers you see" thing.
(As for the race issue, biker gangs tend to attract mostly white, some hispanic, males. I'm very glad that's the case, because if the race issue had gotten involved, things would have gotten a lot more hectic.)
Now they're running into a shortage of lawyers to prosecute all these people because they arrested so many. Welllll maybe they should let some more of them (who were farther from the scene) go?
I think they over-reacted by arresting almost 200 bikers right afterwards. Fortunately, it did cool the tension and prevent a gang war from breaking out later that night.
Most of them arrested were gang members, and since these specific gangs are criminal gangs, they can get a lot of them on organized crime charges. I believe some of them were wanted for other things, too. Most of them could be visually identified with their gangs: tattoos, colors, etc. It was not an "Arrest any bikers you see" thing.
(As for the race issue, biker gangs tend to attract mostly white, some hispanic, males. I'm very glad that's the case, because if the race issue had gotten involved, things would have gotten a lot more hectic.)
Now they're running into a shortage of lawyers to prosecute all these people because they arrested so many. Welllll maybe they should let some more of them (who were farther from the scene) go?
