Waco Siege

Could I get a cliffnotes on this for a non-American?

Summary: Religious group living together, ATF shows up because reports they have auto rifles, shootout happens, ATF calls in the FBI, FBI negotiators get to an agreement, tactical team charges in with tear gas (illegal at the time btw), building burns, the majority of people in the building die

They also completely cleared the ruins and destroyed all physical evidence.
Really gets the noggin joggin.

Hey, OP here, they DID clear the ruins, all the evidence is gone as well. From what I've read so far nobody ever really was investigated. Fun Fact: there is a new group of branch davidians called "The Branch" guess what they do! Pack school lunches and do charity work, wow, such a strange turn

Friendly reminder Sam Hyde is devoid of talent.

What Nick Mullen sees in him is beyond me

Considering they found full auto guns and some of the girls said they got diddled and this shows up on Wikipedia and on any Google search of the topic, I fear you may be the retard friendo

The site was eventually bulldozed but only after being scoured for evidence.

For example they found 48 automatic weapons.

nytimes.com/1994/01/15/us/cult-had-illegal-arms-expert-says.html

I know it's hard to imagine because of "muh culture wars" but it's possible a cult that, by their own admission, forbade men from fucking their wives, but let the leader fuck all the women, including teens, and thought the leader was a prophet, and stockpiled over a hundred assault weapons including illegal automatic ones, just maybe, maybe, might have been the kind of group that opens fire on law enforcement...

A sect of the Seventh Day Adventists broke off.
David Koresh molded this branch into a cult.
ATF suspected they were stockpiling illegal weapons.
Koresh offered to let the ATF inspect their paperwork but the ATF declined.
ATF obtained search and arrest warrants.
ATF claimed Koresh was running a meth lab - they weren't.
Branch Davidians learned about the raid - Koresh said he intended to talk with the ATF.
ATF decided to go through with the raid anyway as planned.

What happens next is up for debate.
>ATF says Branch Davidians shot first
>Branch Davidians say ATF shot first

Branch Davidians called emergency services within a minute of the shooting beginning to ask them to stop shooting.
2 hours of shooting went by.
Local sheriff called a ceasefire - though the ATF readily admitted they were for the ceasefire cause they were running low on ammo.
Branch Davidians let the ATF get the dead/wounded.
6 hours later ATF breaks the ceasefire.

FBI comes in now.
FBI cuts all Branch Davidian contact to outside world.
Some negotiation happens and the Davidians let some children out.
FBI let Branch Davidians make a video but decided not to release it to the public because it would garner them sympathy.
FBI started fucking with them more.
FBI starts driving Bradleys and M728s around, playing music/slaughterhouse sounds all through the night.
FBI cut all water and power.
Koresh ordered more Davidians to leave - they did and were arrested.
Janet Reno and Clinton okay'd the siege.
FBI decides to blow holes in the wall and pump in tear gas.
Sometime FBI fire pyrotechnic rounds despite instructions not to.
Fires started and everyone remaining died.

A month later the site was bulldozed destroying any remaining evidence.

That and Ruby ridge were such abject failures in response

OP here again, and yes, although I do know I put in the original post that they were assault a church, I meant that to be as a loose title. I do understand that the guns were found, yes, but my point was there was no need to use tear gas on civilians (which was basically an act of war). Yes, David Koresh was a bad human being, but there is an argument for his side of the story. YES there were girls who were sexually assaulted, however, they were 14 and under Texas state at the time, it was legal as long as their parents consented. This topic is a tough one and I am happy to read the reactions above and look forward to further responses.