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Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from car sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A bar owner claims he was handcuffed and his business partner husband was arrested after a police SUV crashed through their front window.

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.

Walters was charged with two felonies on suspicion of beating a year-old boy who was crying out for his mother. The teenager in that incident was white, but cases of violence against Black suspects has fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement that had a huge surge of support in after Minneapolis bar 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 said officers told him they had swerved to avoid a dog on South Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood before slamming into the bar at around Pence, who co-owns the bar with Wick, told the publication he was preparing to go to bed in the apartment above the business while co-workers closed up downstairs when there was a crash that rocked the building.

He ran down to cop bar and saw that the police SUV had smashed through the front of the venue. A photo gay the scene was shared by the Riverfront Times on Xformerly Twitter. Breaking: St. Louis Police have now filed felony assault charges against a Bar:PM co-owner. Pence told the Riverfront Times that an officer immediately demanded his ID, to which he refused, saying he told the cop: "No you don't.

That's a police cruiser in my building.

Police crash SUV into St Louis gay bar and arrest owner for assault

You don't need to see my ID. This is not how this works. Meanwhile, co-owner Wick had been taking photos at the scene, Pence said, alleging: "Three of them went for him. He raised his arm and they said he hit them. Wick, whose legal name is Chad Morris, was arrested on suspicion of felony assault on an officer and a misdemeanor for allegedly resisting arrest.

Police documents said he began to "scream obscenities" at police following the crash, and then struck one of the officers. Attorney Javad Khazaeli, who represents Wick and Morris, claims video evidence will refute the police's account of the incident and prove the arrest was unfounded. He told the Riverfront Times: "They lost control of the vehicle.

And immediately the video shows the police officers being aggressive with everybody in the area to cover up what they did. Pence also spoke on camera to KSDK News, describing the aftermath of the crash: "I jumped up thinking it was an accident I came out. My husband came out as well.