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How The Federal Government Killed Dozens In The Waco Siege
A dark moment in US history
On February 28th, 1993, a convoy of vehicles showed up outside of Mount Carmel, the compound of the Branch Davidian cult being run by the enigmatic leader David Koresh. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was there to serve a warrant. The ATF had planted a guy on the inside and he had tipped the feds off to the fact that there were illegal guns on the premise. The ATF wanted to locate the guns and arrest Koresh on weapons charges.
Unfortunately, a reporter tipped off Koresh’s brother-in-law about the raid, and the cult was prepared. When the ATF showed up a firefight broke out and four law enforcement officers and six cultists were killed. Those events kicked off a series of events that gripped the nation and ended in an unprecedented tragedy.
The FBI laid siege to the compound after the four agents were killed. The siege lasted 51 days and by the end of it, 76 people would be dead including pregnant women and children. The end result shocked the nation and the event still draws scrutiny to this day.
The question becomes, how did the federal government manage to kill dozens of people in a single day?
