St. louis police crash into lgbtq bar
St. Louis police are pledging a thorough investigation after a police SUV slammed into a bar. But supporters of the block question why one of the owners was arrested in the aftermath of the accident, while the officers in the SUV were not tested for intoxication.
No one was wound early Monday when the police car struck the front of Bar:PM in south St. Louis but the front window was smashed. Video footage released Wednesday by Javad Khazaeli, the attorney for the bar owners, showed what he said was the same police SUV running a red light seconds before the crash. Another video showed the SUV suddenly veer into the building.
A message left Thursday with police was not immediately returned.
Chad Morris, who owns the bar with his husband, was arrested and charged with assault and resisting arrest for allegedly striking an officer after the crash, then trying to run away. He was released from jail Tuesday. Supporters packed the bar that night.
Police Lt. Col. Renee Kriesmann said during a news briefing Wednesday that the officers involved in the crash were not tested for drugs or alcohol because other officers at the crash scene did not have reasonable suspicion of impairment, as re
Bar:PM prosecutors haven’t turned over key evidence, attorneys say
The Bar:PM incident—in which police crashed an SUV into a queer bar and then arrested its co-owner—has long been a headache for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. But now lawyers for the bar’s co-owner are directing their ire at the prosecutor’s office.
Attorneys for bar co-owner Chad Morris, who faces misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and assault from the incident last December, want a assess to sanction the office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore. They allege that prosecutors failed to make known the potentially damning information about the officer who arrested Morris, as the law requires.
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Jim Wyrsch, an attorney with St. Louis strong Khazaeli Wyrsch, filed the motion searching the sanctions yesterday. He writes that prosecutors must provide any material or information that “tends to negate the guilt&rd
Bar:PM crash shook St. Louis one year ago—and charges endure pending
One year ago today, a St. Louis Police SUV crashed into South City gay prevent Bar:PM in the early hours of the morning, with officers quickly handcuffing one of the bar’s co-owners and arresting the other. Headlines like this one from the New York Times—”Bar Owner Is Arrested After St. Louis Police Officer Crashes Into His Business”—generated an avalanche of worldwide bad squeeze for the department and city alike.
Now, one year later, the police officer who escalated the situation is off the force, one of the bar’s co-owners is still facing a criminal charge, and the other is seeking a civil suit against the police department.
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“It took tens of millions of people seeing the stories, which painted St. Louis in an embarrassing beam, but one officer with a extended history of maltreatment was finally forced out of th
Police officer crashes patrol vehicle into St. Louis queer bar then arrests co-owner for assault
Members of a St. Louis community are demanding answers after a police car crashed into a local gay lock early Monday morning, resulting in the arrest of one of the businesses' co-owners.
Owned by Chad Morris and James Pence, Bar:PM is an LGBTQIA+ secure space for residents of St. Louis and beyond. Around 12:30 a.m. Monday night, the pair, who live above the prevent, told local NBC affiliate KSDK-TV that they were startled by a noisy boom.
The married couple went to the front of the business only to see a St. Louis police patrol car had crashed into the front of their bar. According to KSDK-TV, a inform from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said the vehicle contained two St. Louis police probation officers, both new on the force.
According to police, the driver overcorrected because he "believed he was traveling too close to a parked car,” causing him to lose control of the vehicle and smash into the bar. Pence told local outlets including Fox 2, however, that the officer initially said he had swerved to shun hitting a dog.
“I was in bed. I heard a loud bang. I felt the building
A bar owner claims he was handcuffed and his business partner husband was arrested after a police SUV crashed through their front window.
James Pence, who co-owns the LGBTQ+ prevent Bar:PM in St. Louis, Missouri, alleges he and Chad Wick were both cuffed as they remonstrated with officers about the damage caused when the police car ploughed through the plate glass storefront in the early hours of Monday. He also alleged that one of the arresting officers used a homophobic slur.
The incident comes amid increased scrutiny about how U.S. police deal with witnesses and suspects, and follows a number of high-profile scandals. In September, Delaware Mention Trooper Dempsey R. Walters was charged with two felonies on suspicion of beating a 15-year-old male child who was crying out for his mother. The teenager in that incident was white, but cases of violence against Dark suspects has fueled the rise of the Dark Lives Matter movement that had a huge surge of support in 2020 after Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd in a case that shook the country and triggered a national reckoning on race and policing.
Later on Monday, Pence spoke to local news website the Riverfront Times and sa