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CNNW CNN Special Report May 17, 2016

Nine men dead, 177 arrested. Its ridiculous. I was in shock. How could this have possibly happened and could it mean an end to these out law gangs . You think these investigators are coming after you guys . Cnn penetrates the world of dangerous biker clubs with exclusive access. Tonight, biker brawl, inside the texas shootout. 911, state your emergency. Announcer its a sunday afternoon in the small town of gordon, texas. I need the cops at truck stop, please. A member of the cosexmotorcycle club pumping gas is jumped by several bandidos. The rival bikers rip off his jacket and beat him with a hammer. So brutefully, say witnesses, that he almost loses an eye. Hes bleeding really bad and he can barely stand up. The guys have ula r s havs have. Announcer to understand why the deadly shooting erupted in waco between the bandidos and cosex, you have to know what happened at this truck stop, and what makes these bike gangs different. These are people that are the worst of the worst, baddest of the bad. Former atf agent investigated out law motorcycle gangs for years. He says these gangs have a violent repf for a reason. Fl both are well documented as what we refer to as out law motorcycle organizations. Not every member is an out law but there are members in the organizati organizati organizations. Announcer the majority of motorcycle clubs preach comradery, but in some clubs, theres a more sinister side. Isthe has nothing to do with do gooders or choir boys. But its not this great huge criminal enterprise that everybody thinks. Announcer and pete james would know. For 16 years he was president of the the nutorrious chicago out laws. On the street, he goes by big pete. I can sum that up in one sentence. Who are they . The bandidos are way too big to even deal with the cosecks. They cant hurt you, they pester you. The bandidos are one of the largest clubs in the world. They have chapters all over. Theyre a powerful club. 1 percenters like the bandidos believe the world that applies to 99 of us dont apply to them. One percenter biker clubs are considered out laws. These bikers hardly ever talk but weve managed to get exclusive access to the clubs involved in the waco shootout. The president lives in the rural neighborhood behind these trees and this iron gate. Hes never allowed cameras inside until now. Come here, you guys. You hungry . Come on. Announcer so, its interesting to come out here. This is real peaceful, real quiet and in a lot of ways your life is not real peaceful and quiet. Not right now but it has been for a decade. Referee jeff pike has worn the bandidos vest for more than 35 years and been their National President for the last 10. The new bandidos are not the old bandidos. We get along with everybody except one. Thats the one were here about. Correct. Hes talking about the coss oir cossocs. You think of yourself as an out law . I havent broken a law in decades. Referee but since the club formed in 1966, arrested for crimes from smuggling drugs to running prostitution rings to assault and murder. The clubs founder donald chambers went to prison in 1972 for double murder. The four president s after chambers were convicted for violence against rival bikers, federal and racketeering charges but pike says its not like that anymore. Investigators talk about the one percenters. What does that mean to you . Not what it did 30 years ago. You didnt care about anybody. You didnt care about anybody else. Contrary to popular belief, it doesnt mean you shun society and doesnt mean youre a criminal. And its still on the patch today . It is. Referee a bandidos vest is a priced possession and tells the name. An acronym in biker speech for [ bleep] the world. Theyre ban deedo badges of honor and theyre hard to learn. I got my patch in july of 1979. Referee prime real estate on a bikers vest is the rocker. This is where bandidos lay claim to their home state. For years the bandidos pretty much were the only ones that wore that. And it says texas. It says texas. But over the last decade theres dozens of clubs that wear a texas rocker and the cossacks asked for it it. By adding the texas patch to their vest. According to some in the biking world, it was a fatal error. Theyre trying to become one percenters and show the bandidos that were equal to you. The long run, it was a blunder. But how does a patch lead to this . Coming up, living in fear. An exclusive with a cossack in the middle of it all. What body aches . What knee pain . What sore elbow . Advil liquigels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain . Advil. Tmobile is going big for small business. Youll never get charged data overages, ever. Get your own 24 7 dedicated business account team. And with double the lte coverage in the last year you can get more done in more places. Right now get 2 lines with 10 gigs each for just a 100 bucks. 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The bandidos are described as the one percenters. Were not one percent club, dont want to be because that puts us in a totally different category. Referee they believe they dont have to follow the rules that apply to the other 1 of bikers. We are a motorcycle club. Were not a gang. We dont do drugs. We dont sell it, we dont make it, we dont intimidate people, we dont extort people. We rely on ourselves. Referee eating into the bandidos turf says the expresident of the chicago out laws. The cossacks could have continued to do everything they wanted to do and flew under the radar. You dont have to take orders from the bandidos. Just dont get in their way. I think theres a lot of residual hatred there. Its just an issue weve had for a while, its been brewing, that were not part of the coc. Referee or confederation of clubs are biker networks that exist in every state and discuss every couple months to discuss motorcycle issues. In texas the bandidos insist they run the coc and make the rules. You need to pay us dues. Referee so they wanted dues from you to the coc or them directly . The coc. It doesnt make sense why im going to pay someone to be able to ride my motorcycle in the state of texas. Traditionally, they say it was only worn by bandidos. They say you got to take that texas bottom rocker off your patch . They didnt tell us we had to. It was more it would be better if you did. We said, you know what, were texas based, we been around almost as long as you have, so were going to put the texas vest on. We gave them the patch. They even thanked us on facebook. Reporter so, what is this issue between the bandido sdwhz cossacks all about . I have no idea. Reporter things went nuts in 2013 when escalated into full tlautihrott aggression. There were a couple of assaults, beatings, stabbings. Reporter in abilene, texas, a bloody knife fight sparked by cossacks wearing the texas bottom rocker, according to police. Were not going to tolerate gang fights in the restaurant parking lot in the middle of the day. Reporter a cossacks was charge would a stabbing and later exonerated. The brutal beating that truck stop when bandidos allegedly jumped a cossacks getting gas. And 150 miles away, retaliation, when they say 10 cossacks forced a bandido off the highway and beat him with chains and metal pikers. No one was arrested in these two incidents, but the fights were getting nasty. So nasty that state Police Issued a bulletin warning of esksilating tensions between the bandidos and the cossacks. If we see theres a rationing up on increase or expansion on violence and its the same people in the same organizations, this tells us this is something we should be paying attention to. 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It was our intelligence which told us they were headed this way and trying to get pay back whether against us or rival bike members. Reporter dozens of Police Officers move quietly into place near the restaurant, twin peeks. One of the officers communicated that they were going to have over 400 members at this meeting. Reporter a meeting at the confederation of clubs where they nemeet to resolve issues. Cossacks were first to arrive. Strange, says the National President of the bandidos biker gang. He wasnt in waco that day, but his club runs the texas coc. They were not a member of the confederation club, they came on their own to do whatever they were there to do. They believed it was an open meeting says this cossacks biker who asked us to mask his identity. We went there to say lets stop this. Every time we turn around, skblousome of your guys are getting stupid and picking fights. Lets see if you can find a Common Ground where youll leave us alone and we leave yall alone. Reporter cossacks bikers are sipping beers and shooting the breeze seen here in Surveillance Video by cnn. Outside the restaurant, Police Dash Cams capture the scene in the parking lot as a line of bandidos bikers roll up. I was the first to pull in there. Reporter according to jake carazel, who wuz riding in with his dad and uncle and looking for a place to park. I see 50, 60, 70 cossacks there. It caught me off guard. They were surrounding my bike. Reporter john wilson, the president of the waco chapter, was standing on the patio with his son. I was watching. He deliberately steer under to one of our prospects and hit him. He wasnt going real fast but deliberately ran into the him with a motorcycle. Reporter he says not quite. I didnt run over anyones foot. I think they come up with different scenarios to try to justify what happened. Reporter and what was that mission . I know without a doubt they were there to confront us. Reporter the person assigned to guard the cossacks bikes in the lot is caught in the middle. Squabbling or what not about them blocking the bikes in. Reporter thats pierce talking to investigators. When that happened, everybody rushed over there from both clubs. It wasnt really a fight at that point. It was just some shouting back and forth, verbal altercation. Reporter as the shouting match quickly escalates, you see carazel in the middle. He says a cossacks threw the first punch. It happened so quick i didnt have time to take my gloves or helmet off. Reporter first fists flying, then far worse. I remember yelling for my dad because i knew he was there somewhere. Ive never been that scared in my life. Reporter carazel is taken to the ground. Hes in an all out brawl with several cossacks. He doesnt know it then but theres a biker emerging from the cay us pointing a gun and looking for a target. Burt suddenly his head snaps back and he drops to the ground. I hear the shots going off, whizzing by me. I had guys all overme. I had one i had taken on the ground and i was using him to block me from the rest of them. Reporter he stumbles and looks for cover as another biker takes aim. You actually see four plumes of smoke come from him and hes pointed right at you. And then you fall to the ground. You didnt get hit . No. It looks like a cop may have taken him out. Reporter after he fired four times. Wow. Reporter one biker brazenly runs across the patio, shooting wildly. Terrified waitresses and customers run for cover. This twin peeks waitress didnt want to be seen on camera. Screaming and take off running to the back. Reporter she and others reach a walkin refrigerator and call for help. We actually had the racks in front of the door to barricade ourselves. It was a lot of carnage. Reporter did you get on the ground too . I didnt have a choice. I got shot. I seen the person that shot me. Reporter you did . 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Reporter seconds into the show down, Surveillance Video shows this biker running from the twin peeks patio covered in blood. It was pretty horrific. There were guys getting hit, falling and i realize that i needed to get away from where i was. Reporter biker john wilson did get away. You can see him here inside twin peeks ducking for cover. But this man seen in the red ban dannau was not as lucky. He hits another biker in the throat with what looks like a chain. They wrestled to the ground, then hes struck several times in the head. Hes stomped on at least once and looks to get shot by a biker. The men he was fighting walk away. Then another fight breaks out. Look closely as the highlighted biker is shot in the leg during the skirmish. Cossacks Richard Kirschner stumbles to the curb and collapses. When the area is secure, members of the cossacks carry him away for help. Both bikers die at the scene. By now waco police s. W. A. T. Officers armed with rifles are firing from the perimeter. The shooting at individual bikers from bikers turned towards us. Our officers took fire and responded appropriately, responding fire. Reporter when the guns fell silent, the twin peeks parking lot was a blood path. Pools of blood smeared everywhere, shell casings scattered across the ground. In my nearly 35 years of Law Enforcement experience, this is the most violent and gruesome scene i have dealt with. Reporter dead bikers on top of toppled harleys and others cling to life nearby, like kirschner. It turned out he was shot in the but ux and legs. I started asking the police to please bring the ambulance in. I was told the area wasnt secure yet. Three of the dead were still alive 30 minutes afterwards. It was shocking and disturbing to me. Reporter so, you think there was a chance to save them . Sure. Well never know. But he bled to death. Reporter the Waco Police Department declined our request for an interview and wouldnt comment on the timing of aid, siting a gag order. But former atf agent matt hors says the officers responded correctly. This is ultimately an active shooter situation because we dont know which one of the bad guys have guns. So we dont put our attention to the injured, often times, we put it towards the tlelhreats and t danger. Reporter Police Find Weapons stuffed between bags of flour and tossed on the floor of the restaurant. Eerily inside the bathroom, you can still hear the Country Music blaring as an investigator films the aftermath. Blood spilling out on to the sink and floor. As the officer moves into the stalls, he discovers handguns toss

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