Bandidos Motorcycle Club

A police officer removes a jacket bearing the name of the Bandidos motorcycle gang from a vehicle at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, where nine members of a motorcycle gang were shot and killed on May 19, 2015.

What’s the reason nine bikers were killed in Texas? A patch.

Justice

Experts say biker gangs aren’t great drug dealers or organized crime runners, but they do know one thing: How to protect their turf. And it’s that willingness to kill to mark their territory — even over a patch on a vest — that likely led to the shootout in Waco, Texas, between rival gangs.