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The Criminal who stands out rides Triumph
Crime history - 100 shots fired in biker gang gunfight
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
06/13/09 10:05 PM EDT On this day, June 14, in 1966, a motorcycle gang shoot out between the Maryland-based Pagans and the local Avengers rocked a shopping center in Arlington, in what police then called the worst violence in the county since the Civil War.
The Avengers resented the Pagans, a jacket-wearing motorcycle gang that was trying to become an East Coast model of the Hell’s Angels. The outfit was started in Prince George’s County by Lou Dobkins, a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health, who was into British Triumph bikes.
The Pagans wore denim vests depicting the Norse fire-giant Surt wielding a flaming sword. The Avengers’ colors featured a big Maltese cross and a skull.
At a parking lot at Lee Highway and Harrison, the Pagans ambushed the Avengers, who returned fire. Some 100 shots rang out.
Only one youth was injured. Sixteen were arrested and a cache of bolt-action single shot-weapons and pistols were confiscated.
Arlington County Police Chief William G. Fawver said it was “the most serious single outbreak of mass violence this county has ever seen.”
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It's not what you look like when you're doin' what you're doin', It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin.
from 1970 song "Express Yourself" by Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm band.
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