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St. Louis Police Crash Into LGBTQ Bar, Arrest Its Owner (www.riverfronttimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know about y'all, but to me this sure sounds like a drunk police officer crashed their car and arrested the witnesses.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Article explains why:

Pence says the police officer who ran into the bar told him that he had swerved to miss a dog in the middle of South Broadway. Pence says he does have security camera footage of the crash, though he is not making it public at this time.

Cop made up a dog as an excuse, and the bar has videotape that likely shows no dog.

And when cops are challenged, they arrest and beat people.

Which is likely why an owner was sent for medical treatment after the arrest despite not being injured when the cops took him away

Seems like a good bet they tried to violently coerce him into deleting it or at least to stop talking about how it proved the cop was lying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would the cop make up such an unbelievable story?
If there was a dog in the road, they would swerve to hit it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yup, that’s my bet. Cops can bury dashcam and bodycam footage, but can’t stop someone with a CCTV system from releasing their tapes. So instead, they arrest and beat the owner until he agrees to turn over the tapes and say the cop was blameless.

And they’ll get away with it, because the police are a legal mafia.