Posted on Dec 20, 2023
Police crash car into St. Louis gay bar, then arrest co-owner
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Bar:PM co-owner Chad Morris was arrested Monday morning and initially charged with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
A St. Louis police officer crashed his patrol car into a gay bar on Monday and then arrested one of the bar’s owners after an alleged altercation.
Chad Morris and James Pence, who co-own Bar:PM and live above it, said they came downstairs after they heard the crash at around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, according to local NBC affiliate KSDK-TV.
“I was actually already in bed (and) I heard a loud boom,” Pence said, according to KSDK-TV. “I jumped up thinking it was an accident with a vehicle, and then, I saw it, and it was a St. Louis city police department vehicle in the front of our building.”
An officer was driving too close to a parked car Monday morning and then overcorrected and lost control of the vehicle, crashing into Bar:PM, according to an incident report from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
The report says an “offender” came outside and “began shouting obscenities” at police officers after the crash, but it doesn’t name the offender. When one of the officers “attempted to calm the situation,” the report stated, the offender shoved one of them. The offender was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, according to the report.
A St. Louis police officer crashed his patrol car into a gay bar on Monday and then arrested one of the bar’s owners after an alleged altercation.
Chad Morris and James Pence, who co-own Bar:PM and live above it, said they came downstairs after they heard the crash at around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, according to local NBC affiliate KSDK-TV.
“I was actually already in bed (and) I heard a loud boom,” Pence said, according to KSDK-TV. “I jumped up thinking it was an accident with a vehicle, and then, I saw it, and it was a St. Louis city police department vehicle in the front of our building.”
An officer was driving too close to a parked car Monday morning and then overcorrected and lost control of the vehicle, crashing into Bar:PM, according to an incident report from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
The report says an “offender” came outside and “began shouting obscenities” at police officers after the crash, but it doesn’t name the offender. When one of the officers “attempted to calm the situation,” the report stated, the offender shoved one of them. The offender was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, according to the report.
Police crash car into St. Louis gay bar, then arrest co-owner
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Charges against the police officer of assault and attempted murder for everyone in the bar. Throw in misconduct , damage to city property, damage to private property ,false arrest, false imprisonment and the list goes on and on.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Khazaeli said in a post on X that prosecutors agreed to release Morris on Tuesday morning on his own recognizance and that they reduced the felony assault charge to a misdemeanor.
“Our goal is to have all of these charges dismissed because there’s no basis for them, and then to decide what kind of claims my clients have against these officers and to hold the officers accountable, because this just can’t stand,” Khazaeli told NBC News on Tuesday. “You can’t have police officers terrorizing people, because they’re victims of a crime. And when they asked what happened, to be treated this way.”
On Monday morning, St. Louis resident Zach Gandy, whose group the Rudis Leather Society regularly visits the Bar:PM said bar employees called to tell him what happened, so he gathered about a dozen volunteers to help clean up the bar so it can reopen.
“Anytime somebody is in trouble and you know you can help them, you do everything in your power to get them back up and running,” Gandy told KSDK-TV. “That’s just what this community does.”
..."Khazaeli said in a post on X that prosecutors agreed to release Morris on Tuesday morning on his own recognizance and that they reduced the felony assault charge to a misdemeanor.
“Our goal is to have all of these charges dismissed because there’s no basis for them, and then to decide what kind of claims my clients have against these officers and to hold the officers accountable, because this just can’t stand,” Khazaeli told NBC News on Tuesday. “You can’t have police officers terrorizing people, because they’re victims of a crime. And when they asked what happened, to be treated this way.”
On Monday morning, St. Louis resident Zach Gandy, whose group the Rudis Leather Society regularly visits the Bar:PM said bar employees called to tell him what happened, so he gathered about a dozen volunteers to help clean up the bar so it can reopen.
“Anytime somebody is in trouble and you know you can help them, you do everything in your power to get them back up and running,” Gandy told KSDK-TV. “That’s just what this community does.”
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