Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Fort Worth Police: Throwbacks of the Day

They raid a gay bar on Pride, beat up on some people, breaking the skull of one. Their defense?

You're touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that's offensive,' he said. 'I'm happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.'

Idiot (yet depressingly enlightening) statement of the day.

Almost as alarming is the fact the police think they're attractive enough that anyone would *want* to touch them.

What would they say if they raided a lesbian bar?

You're not touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that's offensive,' he said. 'I'm happy with the restraint used when they were not contacted like that.'

Read more here and here.

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