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.
  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    25·
    2 years ago

    Fucking nuts. There was NEVER a reasonable reason to detain him. Crashing into someone’s house does not give you reasonable suspicion for an investigation. That’s not how it fucking works. I don’t understand why the prosecutor would even want to touch these bullshit charges.

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteBannedEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      Seems like if the owners are guilty of anything worthy of arrest, the pigs are guilty of property damage, assault and battery, attempted murder (all these add “with a deadly weapon” for the fact that they’re armed and a 2000lb metal box is certainly deadly) , reckless driving, and a litany of other crimes that should land them in prison with life-crippling fines.

      • LufyCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        432·
        2 years ago

        Attempted murder is an insane stretch and it devalues your whole comment.

        • snooggums@kbin.social
          41·
          2 years ago

          Cops shoot people driving cars and claim it was for officer safety because the person could have run them over all the time.

          • LufyCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            2 years ago

            How is that in any way relevant?

            The officers crashed into a building, nobody started shooting ever in this case.

            • snooggums@kbin.social
              3·
              2 years ago

              If person driving = using a deadly weapon to justify shooting at the driver then cop driving = using a deadly weapon.

            • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Cops lie on official paperwork all the time. “Turnabout is fair play”. It’s not been a long thread, but if you’re having that much trouble keeping track of the conversation, you can read the thread history before responding to remember what we’re talking about currently.

  • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
    24·
    2 years ago

    Statement from one of the owners:

    “I feel like the situation has been handled horribly all the way around,” Pence said in an interview. He added: “All they needed to do was take responsibility, admit they had an accident and handle it differently.”

    Hate to tell you buddy, but you’ve got a better chance of winning the lottery.

    Statement from one of the cops (disputed by owners’ attorney):

    An officer identified in police records as John Pierce accused Morris of striking him “in the chest with an open hand,” causing him to lose his balance, according to police records.

    How does a grown person use this to justify violence or arrest without feeling deeply ashamed at having taken a job as a cop despite being such an absolutely fragile human being?

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      18·
      2 years ago

      How does a grown person use this to justify violence or arrest without feeling deeply ashamed at having taken a job as a cop despite being such an absolutely fragile human being.

      They took the job because they’re so deeply fragile and completely lacking in shame, why would they feel bad about it?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      2 years ago

      They were absolutely lifting it on the video and managed to get spooked by a parked car and swerved across the road.

      It didn’t seem intentional just very embarrassingly poor skilled.

      Their first intuition told them to arrest someone.

      Cunts