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History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Bandidos Motorcycle Club page on 3 July 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is a "one-percenter" motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. The club was formed in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. Its motto is "We are the people your parents warned you about." It is estimated to have 5,000 members in 210 chapters, located in 22 countries.
History
The Bandidos were founded by 36-year-old dockworker Donald Chambers in March 1966 in Houston, Texas. He named the club in honor of the Mexican bandits who lived by their own rules and he recruited members from biker bars locally in Houston as well as in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio. Like other outlaw motorcycle clubs (Outlaws, the Pagans, and the Hells Angels), they call themselves "One Percenters", a phrase coined by the former president of the American Motorcyclist Association who once stated that 99 percent of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens and 1 percent "outlaws." By the early 1970s, the club had over one hundred members, including many Vietnam War veterans. The majority of the club consists of Caucasian males but Hispanics are also admitted. Their motto is "We are the people your parents warned you about."
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| 6 January 2016 | [Authorities Arrest Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization Leadership] United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin Jr., Western District of Texas |  Article Page - 460KB - 0:28 |
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| 16 December 2015 filing date | United States of America v. John Xavier Portillo, Jeffrey Fay Pike, and Justin Cole Forster Indictment United States District Court, Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division |  PDF - 2.5MB - 23 pages |
