CNN has run footage from inside the Twin Peaks restaurant where the deadly Texas biker shootout took place a few months ago. It is unclear how CNN obtained the surveillance video, though there is some speculation that it may have been leaked by the bikers' attorneys.

The gunfight left nine men shot dead, 20 wounded, 177 more in jail, and a litany of unanswered questions about just how complicit Waco police were in escalating the tensions between the Cossacks and the Bandidos, as Nathaniel Penn learned in his deeply reported story for GQ last month. As he wrote at the time:

The police were already there as the rest of the clubs arrived that morning. “They're circling like buzzards on a dead deer,” one biker told me. “I look at the people I was riding with, and I said, ‘This don't look right.’ ” Afterward, said the Cossacks' John Wilson, “a Waco spokesman was touting the quick 40-second response time of the police, when that was obviously false. They were here.” The bikers believe this provides a clue to the Waco P.D.'s ongoing silence: The cops know their response was overzealous, possibly unlawful, and now they're covering it up. Some bikers believe there's an even more sinister explanation: that a firefight of some kind was supposed to happen—that it was all part of a plan by the Waco P.D. to provoke bitter rivals into a public brawl that could be violently crushed and then used as a basis for sweeping RICO indictments.

The video appears to confirm many of the eyewitness accounts from both gangs that we reported. (The Cossacks were on the patio, for example; a few of the men were armed, but it appears a majority of them were looking for cover.) “We basically walked into an ambush,” the Cossacks' Jon “Hondo” Moses told GQ. “The die was cast as soon as we rode into that parking lot.”

Related links:

What a Texas Biker Gang Actually Looks Like

Behind the Scenes: What It Was Like to Photograph the Bandidos