The Fort Worth, Texas police department, in a thoroughly expected turn of events, has decided that it was mostly blameless when it raided a newly opened gay bar under questionable pretenses on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall and sent one patron to the hospital.

See this post as a refresher. I was able to piece together the night’s events from separate eye witness accounts that matched up pretty darn well less than 24 hours after the raid. From CBS11:

Thursday morning FWPD Chief Jeff Halstead held a press conference in front of the Rainbow Lounge to announce the disciplinary action. There the chief confirmed that two police officers, Officer K.Q. Gober and Sgt. R.M. Morris, will be suspended for one day and Officer J.M. Back received a three-day suspension.

The officers were suspended for a violation of police procedures during the inspection of the bar.

The officer that was suspended for three days, J.M. Back, was cited for handcuffing a person without probable cause, for releasing that person without issuing a citation, bringing unfavorable criticism to the police department and for failing to complete offense reports the night of the arrest.

Sgt. Morris was suspended for using “poor judgment in his tactics” to conduct the bar check.

Officer Gober was suspended for making a conscious decision not to complete the required offense report before the end of his shift and did not complete the offense report until his return to work the following night. Gober was also reprimanded for the negative media attention that “could have been adverted had Officer Gober completed the required offense report with the true and accurate details of events that occurred during the Rainbow Lounge bar check.”

Unbelievable. The only wrong committed by the Fort Worth police, in their own totally unbiased judgment, was bad public relations. Their combined punishment: five day’s suspension. Less time, as Timothy Kincaid pointed out, than Chad Gibson has spent in the hospital so far. Translation: The homos had it coming.

No word on whether Chief Jeff Halstead stands by his earlier Gay Panic defense, but I’m going to guess he stands by it.

Ft. Worth LGBTs, you are in harm’s way. Protect yourselves. The police damn sure won’t. Hell, they’ll join in the fun.

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