Draggingtree Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Gang LandAFTER THE DEADLY SHOOT-OUT IN WACO, WHAT DO THE BANDIDOS WANT? TO BE LEFT ALONE. by SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH/JULY 2015 In late May, two weeks after the furious gun battle at the Twin Peaks in Waco between the members of the Bandidos and the Cossacks, I drove to the Williams Funeral Home in Garland, a suburb of Dallas, where a service was being held for forty-year-old Manuel “Candyman” Rodriguez, the sole Bandido to die in the shoot-out. Bandidos had arrived from all over the country. They greeted one another in their traditional way, with bear hugs and kisses on the lips. On nearby streets, police officers stood watch by their squad cars, perhaps checking to see if any Cossacks were headed to the funeral home to resume the feud. “Oh, hell, no Cossack is going to show up,” Jeff Pike, the Bandidos’ 59-year-old president, told me with a shrug. “They aren’t that stupid.” Standing next to Pike was one of the Bandidos’ sergeants at arms, a thin smile on his face. Most motorcycle clubs are perfectly harmless, filled with bikers who go on leisurely weekend rides. But a few clubs around the country proudly call themselves One Percenters, a phrase taken from a former president of the American Motorcyclist Association, who declared in 1947, after a fight had broken out at a biker rally between members of two California clubs (the Boozefighters and the Pissed Off Bastards), that 99 percent of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens and 1 percent were “outlaws.” http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/bandidos-president-jeff-pike-on-the-waco-shootout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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