![]() ![]() At the end of the raid, the only charges filed by the police were against the four dancers and four bar employees, and related to the “unlicensed adult entertainment” that the officers originally raided the bar to investigate. When the patrons were eventually released, not a single patron was charged with breaking any law. When I asked if I could move away from the broken glass, I was told, ‘ Shut the fuck up or you’ll be handcuffed.’ The police were laughing and joking while we were lying there and at different times, I heard them say, ‘You people make me sick’ and ‘I hate fags.’ One of them said, ‘This is fun we should do this every week.’” One of the patrons (whose father was a police officer), described the scene to a reporter: “Nothing was ever explained to us by the officers. (click to enlarge)Īccording to the patrons (a group which included several elderly men), police officers shoved people to the ground, threatened to hit them in the head with barstools, handcuffed people, made racist and anti-gay comments, and forced patrons to remain flat on the ground, with their faces against a floor covered in some areas with spilled beer and broken glass, even long after they had been searched and found to be unarmed.
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