Thank GOD police didn't use excessive force at the Rainbow Lounge in Ft. Worth, Texas
Bilerico Nov 06 09
The police are expected to come out with the results of their internal investigation of their raid on a Ft. Worth gay bar, and I for one am grateful for the results: they didn't use excessive force in the raid.
The only thing police did wrong was not file paperwork quickly enough:
The long-awaited 1,000-page report is expected to fault officers for not writing a timely report on the June 28 raid of the Rainbow Lounge, but conclude officers did not use excessive force or violate other operational policies.
Officers are supposed to write reports by the end of every shift, but in this case the officer waited until the next day - after gay groups had launched protests, police said. Full story...
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