The owners of a gay bar in St. Louis were getting ready to relax Sunday night when a police vehicle crashed through the front of their business, Bar:PM.
Sorry folks, this didn’t look paywalled for me when I posted it.
Officers arrested one of the bar’s owners because he refused to show them ID? The officers just crashed into his bar in the middle of the night, he gets out of bed to see what that loud noise was, and they arrest him because he won’t show them ID? In Missouri police can only ask to see ID if there is a reasonable suspicion of some wrongdoing, and I can’t see that a building owner is doing anything wrong when he checks on the probationary cops that just plowed into his building because they suck at driving or were driving too fast.
Non-paywalled article here:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/20/gay-bar-pm-st-louis-police-crash-owner-arrest/71986781007/
Officers arrested one of the bar’s owners because he refused to show them ID? The officers just crashed into his bar in the middle of the night, he gets out of bed to see what that loud noise was, and they arrest him because he won’t show them ID? In Missouri police can only ask to see ID if there is a reasonable suspicion of some wrongdoing, and I can’t see that a building owner is doing anything wrong when he checks on the probationary cops that just plowed into his building because they suck at driving or were driving too fast.
They ran a red light just before the crash, and other officers refused to use a breathalyzer on them. No blood samples were taken either.
ACAB
Owning a building/business while gay is a felony in Missouri…
Oh shit, is the bar owner gay? I live in Missouri, on the opposite end of the state, and there’s a gay couple that own a really popular bar in town.
The business they smashed into is an LGBT bar
I’ve been seriously thinking of building an LGBT bar. Does anyone know where I can purchase gay bricks?
https://www.point2homes.com/US/Home-For-Sale/WV/Fort-Gay/125-Yellow-Brick-Road/156219849.html
Some demolition and reassembly required.
Man it’s so cheap to live in WV. Too bad it’s in WV.