Surveillance video acquired Thursday by NBC 5 shows the shootout that left nine people dead and injured 18 at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant in May. (Published Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015) 
 
 Surveillance video acquired Thursday by NBC DFW shows the bloody shootout between biker clubs and Waco police officers that left nine people dead and injured 18 at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant in May. 
 
 The video, which has no audio, shows members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club gathering on the patio as several men begin fighting in the parking lot. It was previously reported that a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club drove over the foot of a rival club member, quickly escalating tensions at the gathering. 
 
 Moments later, while most people on the patio begin to clear out, others pull out firearms and choose to stand their ground. In the chaos, a man can be seen running from the parking lot onto the far side of the patio while indiscriminately firing a gun behind him. 
 
 A short time later, a man with a bloody face and chest can be seen running from the patio, desperately searching for cover, while others crawled to safety. 
 
 Surveillance Video Records Waco Biker Shooting 
 
 NBC 5 in Dallas-Ft. Worth obtained surveillance video of a shootout between biker clubs and Waco police officers that left nine people dead and injured 18 at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant last May. (Published Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015) 
 
 NBC 5 previously reported the Bandidos were upset at the Cossacks for wearing a Texas insignia on their jackets and planned a meeting with other biker groups in Waco, police said. The Cossacks, who threatened that Waco was their town, were reportedly not invited to the gathering but showed up anyway, taking over parts of the Twin Peaks restaurant and lining the parking lot with lookouts. 
 
 The Associated Press said the video and photographs were included in the same cache of evidence reviewed by the AP and described in a story published Sept. 18. The AP chose not to distribute the footage. 
 
 The surveillance video was first published Thursday by CNN and credited to the Waco Police Department. The Waco Police Department, however, told NBC 5 Thursday they remain under a gag order and did not release the surveillance video to anyone in the media. 
 
 Authorities told NBC News that whoever made the video clip public could be "subject to ethical and legal issues." 
 
 Earlier this summer the Bandidos Motorcycle Club demanded Waco police release dashcam and surveillance video of the shootout, along with autopsy reports for those killed in the bloody melee. 
 
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 Lawyers for the biker clubs, who have copies of the video for trial purposes, also said they did not release the video. 
 
 After the shootout, Waco police officers recovered 480 weapons and detained 239 people. Of those detained, 177 were arrested and held on $1 million bond, accused of engaging in organized criminal activity. 
 
 Lawsuits filed on behalf of some of the club members are ongoing — none of the 177 arrested were ever indicted. Meanwhile, a grand jury was set earlier this month to consider the cases of those arrested. 
 
 "I think the Waco police went wrong when there was the mass arrest," said Dallas attorney Susan Anderson represents one of the 177 people arrested that day. 
 
 Anderson said she wanted to make one thing clear – that many of the bikers at the restaurant had nothing to do with the shooting. 
 
 "You have to have just cause in order to arrest, not 'just [because],'" said Anderson. "And it seems there was a lot of 'just [because]' going on at Twin Peaks that day. They arrested just [because] they were there." ||||| 106 bikers indicted in Twin Peaks shootout 
 
 A McLennan County grand jury indicted 106 bikers over the bloody melee at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco in May that left nine people dead, at least 18 wounded and 177 arrested for alleged ties to a gang fight. 
 
 The indictments, handed up Tuesday, charged each defendant with engaging in organized criminal activity, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison. 
 
 But the indictments _ which mirror the charge all were arrested for in May _ did not specifically charge anyone with murdering, assaulting or inflicting any other harm on anyone else. 
 
 (The Waco Tribune-Herald posted a list of all the bikers indicted on Tuesday. See it here.) 
 
 Authorities still have not disclosed which of the dead or wounded were shot by bikers, and which were shot by Waco police, who along with their chief were lying low in the vicinity of the restaurant when the bikers arrived that Sunday afternoon. 
 
 After the shooting, investigators found 151 guns and hundreds of other weapons, such as hatchets, machetes, pipes and hammers on the bikers as well as scattered around the scene, from vehicles in the parking lot to inside the toilet of the Twin Peaks bathroom. 
 
 In a nine-hour session, grand jurors indicted all 106 cases they were asked to consider, the Associated Press quoted District Attorney Abel Reyna as saying at a news conference in Waco. 
 
 He said the grand jury will return to consider charges against the other 71 bikers who also arrested that day on identical charges. 
 
 "We are not done," Reyna said. "We still have a lot of work to do. We will continue to do that. My office is dedicated, as is the team, to seeing that justice is done in all those cases." 
 
 The indictments come as authorities are up against a six-month deadline, after which defense lawyers can file motions to have charges dropped and bail conditions revoked for those persons who have been charged but not indicted. 
 
 Among those indicted are leaders and ranking members of the Houston-born Bandidos Motorcycle Club as well as their rivals, the Cossacks Motorcycle Club, along with supporters of each group. 
 
 Law enforcement contends the Bandidos and Cossacks had been locked in an ongoing feud that resulted in multiple beatings around the state. 
 
 The attacks involved fists and tough words, but no one was ever shot or killed, according to authorities. 
 
 The Bandidos, which are one of the largest and most storied motorcycle clubs in the country, consider Texas to be their home turf. 
 
 The Cossacks, which have also been around for years, but have traditionally been far smaller and kept a lower profile, had recently started wearing "Texas" patches on their motorcycle riding vests, without the approval of the Bandidos. 
 
 In the world of motorcycle clubs, such a move amounts to the Cossacks declaring Texas to be their turf, and is an open and bold defiance of the Bandidos. 
 
 The groups clashed at the Twin Peaks shortly before what was to be a gathering of regional motorcycle clubs to which the Cossacks were not invited. 
 
 Houston lawyer Paul Looney, who represents a Cossack who was indicted said the bikers were no closer to being convicted than the day they were arrested. 
 
 "I think they probably presented the cases they wanted indicted and the rest will just dangle there until they see if they find some information they don't know about, and they come back and get them," he said. 
 
 His client, Cody Ledbetter, has said he saw his father, Danny "Diesel" Boyett get shot in the back of the head by a man wearing a turned around baseball cap that read, "Support Your Local Bandidos." 
 
 Ledbetter told the Chronicle that his father told him the morning of the shootings that they were headed to Twin Peaks for a meeting with the Bandidos. 
 
 Looney said that by going after so many defendants in such a complex case, prosecutors and the courts have more than they can handle. 
 
 "It is just completely unsustainable for prosecution," he said of the prospect of 106 defendants, and maybe more, going to trial. "It is not something they are going to be able to pull off." 
 
 At the same time, Looney said he suspects prosecutors are going to bank on some of the bikers opting for plea agreements and cooperating in order to avoid hefty prison time. 
 
 "There is just not much they are going to be able to say about any (co-defendants)," he said. "The video I saw on CNN indicated to me that there are precious few, if anybody there, that did anything illegal; they just tried to get out of the way of one idiot firing a gun." 
 
 Among the bikers who have described scrambling from gunfire was Cossack's member Jorge "Bubba" Salinas, a former Marine who served two tours in Afghanistan before being discharged in 2013. 
 
 Salinas, who was indicted, maintains he broke no laws that day. 
 
 "Unless going to eat and having a beer with my buddies is against the law, I haven't done anything wrong," Salinas said after his arrest. "We aren't criminals just because we ride bikes together, hang out together and wear colors." 
 
 The indictments were no surprise to Houston attorney Mark Thiessen. 
 
 His client, Marcus Pilkington, was the last to be released from jail after all were arrested and initially ordered held on $1 million bail a piece. 
 
 "They had to indict a lot of people just to save face. It would have been a huge black eye for (the district attorney and the Waco police) if no one had gotten indicted in this case," Thiessen said. 
 
 The indictment means defense lawyers will be able to examine the evidence against his client, he said. 
 
 "We're finally going to get to the bottom of this. We're going to figure out the truth of what happened out there," he said. 
 
 Chron.com homepage producer Dana Thompson contributed to this report. ||||| Hundreds of bikers rode into the heart of Waco on Sunday, to protest the police’s handling of the Twin Peaks shootout that left nine people dead, 18 injured and 177 arrested. 
 
 Demonstrators moved through the streets of the Texas city and then massed outside the courthouse for a protest that was silent, save for the rumbling and revving of engines. 
 
 Their chrome machines glinting in the sunshine, colourful graphics and slogans dotting their black leather vests, members of the Rough Riders, Comanche Warriors, Sons of Liberty, Homeboys and other groups gathered in support of those who were killed or imprisoned as a result of the violence at the suburban restaurant three weeks ago. 
 
 Of those arrested, 102 remain behind bars, said John Kolinek, a captain with the McLennan county sheriff’s office. Authorities initially set bail at $1m, which most have been unable to pay. 
 
 Biker supporters and lawyers for the accused maintain that many of those arrested on suspicion of engaging in organised crime were innocent bystanders with no connection to illegal gangs and that the bail amount was excessive. Some have been released after their bond was reduced. The sheer number of arrests has placed the local legal system under strain and caused delays 
 
 An estimated 500 people attended Sunday’s protest, which was billed by the organisers as a peaceful “First Amendment and Redress Rally”. Several – who were not bikers – turned up openly carrying rifles, which is legal under Texas law. Police maintained a visible but discreet presence and the event seemed to pass off without incident. 
 
 American and Confederate flags were brandished along with signs with slogans including “We are not criminals”, “It’s not illegal to be a biker”, “No more massacres in Waco” and “Biker lives matter”. 
 
 Shortly after 1.30pm local time, dozens of bikers arrived at the square in downtown Waco and entered a cordoned-off lot, pointedly parking their motorcycles facing the courthouse’s main entrance. None appeared to be members of the Bandidos and Cossacks, the rival gangs blamed for sparking trouble at a meeting that was supposed to be a friendly gathering to discuss legislative issues. 
 
 Three weeks on, authorities have released little information about what exactly happened during the shootout, including how it began and how many people were killed or wounded by police. A prosecutor said on Friday that video of the incident “clearly shows Bandidos executing Cossacks and Cossacks executing Bandidos, some at point-blank range”, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. 
 
 Waco police have said more than 300 weapons were recovered from the scene. 
 
 Joe Miller, a 64-year-old independent rider with a grey beard and an aquamarine Harley-Davidson, said he had a lucky escape. He was near Twin Peaks on the day of the shooting but decided not to go to the meeting after seeing men with gang insignia ride past when he stopped to get fuel. 
 
 “I saw all these guys wearing patches, like something’s going on,” he said. “I got out of there.” 
 
 Miller said he came to the rally to protest what he saw as police overreaction: “Arrest them, take their bikes? The bike is their love. They need to get their due process going a bit quicker.” 
 
 Mark Martinez was one of several who travelled to Waco from New Mexico. He said that he came to take a stand against government oppression. 
 
 “They say we’re the land of the free. Man, we all know that’s a bunch of BS,” the 55-year-old said. “I’m not just here because I ride a motorcycle, I’m here for all the people.” 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest A deputy stands guard near a group of bikers in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant last month. Photograph: Rod Aydelotte/AP 
 
 Standing next to him, Karen Chenault said she wanted to “see the evidence that backs up this extreme response. Is it proportional to the event? I don’t think it is.” 
 
 A man who called himself “Newport”, of the Junkyard Dawgs, said he attended the funeral near Dallas of one of the Bandidos who was shot dead, Manny Rodriguez, aka Candyman. 
 
 “Ah, man, just a good dude. Family man, had two kids, wife, good job,” he said. 
 
 Dan “Spanky” Rush, a road captain with the American Legion Riders, said he feared law-abiding bikers have been stigmatised. 
 
 “Everybody that wears a vest is affected by this,” the 58-year-old said, calling for the authorities to release more details. “All of us aren’t angels, there’s no doubt about that … [but] I don’t think the truth has come out yet.” 
 
 By mid-afternoon, the protesters had dispersed.
– Five months after nine people were killed and 18 were injured in a shootout between rival biker gangs and police in Waco, Texas, leaked surveillance video released by CNN—and previously described by the AP—shows the chaos at the scene. Members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club are seen gathering on the patio of the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant; a fight involving some men from the Bandidos Motorcycle Club begins in the parking lot, according to NBC Dallas Forth-Worth. Suddenly, the patio begins to empty. One man can be seen pulling a gun and aiming it toward the parking lot. Another is seen running onto the patio while firing a gun behind him. Bikers are shown dragging the body of one man onto the patio; another biker is seen leaving the patio with his face and chest covered in blood. Lawyers for both biker clubs say they did not release the video to the media. The Waco Police Department likewise denies doing so, saying it remains under a gag order. The individuals who made the video public could be "subject to ethical and legal issues," the department says, while police and prosecutors tell ABC News that the leak could affect the pending cases. Waco police detained 239 people in the aftermath of the shooting. Of those, 177 were arrested on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity, though none were ever indicted. A grand jury is now considering their cases.