Bar owner is arrested after St. Louis police officer crashes into his business
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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.
Gay bricks are made from gay clay, so they say
Wanna sit by the bay and eat some hay? I just may. What do ya say?
“I was in bed. I heard a loud bang. I felt the building shake. I ran down from upstairs. He actually apologized to me.," Pence told Fox 2. "He said ‘I literally swerved to miss a dog.’ He was very–he was actually extremely nice. He was the nicest officer out there.”
The cops keep changing their story. It's been at least a dog and a parked car that I know of. Then there's the bodycam footage they won't release. Then there's the security cam footage showing them run a redlight (dramatically) seconds before the collision. They also didn't breathalyze the office or otherwise test him for DWI.
Each of the above points is supported by one or more of the links below.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/st-louis-police-ran-red-light-seconds-before-crashing-into-bar-lawyer-says/article\_0f83a914-9fa7-11ee-82b6-e79f499ffa19.html (includes video)
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/police-wont-release-body-camera-footage-in-suvs-crash-into-st-louis-bar/article\_c9a5b148-a10a-11ee-a8b2-2f4609f45b8c.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvme3/st-louis-gay-bar-police-crash
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/st-louis-police-suv-that-hit-bar-pm-ran-a-red-light-moments-earlier-41489947