Fort Worth gay bar raid results in brain injury, protests, calls for investigation [video]
”Kristy said the most recent CAT scans have shown that the blood clot on Chad’s brain has stopped growing, which is good news, but he is not out of the woods yet. She said doctors told the family that as long as the clot remains — whether it is growing or not — there is the chance that all or some of it could break loose and cause severe damage or death, or that the bleeding could start up again.”
Blog posting on The Dallas Voice, a Texas GLBT new website, regarding the condition of a gay man, Chad Gibson, who is said to have been violently arrested by police as part of a raid on The Rainbow Lounge, a new gay bar in Fort Worth. Police have stated officially that the bar was scheduled for inspection on that date, and it is just coincidence that as many as 9 arrests took place on the 40th anniversary of the raid of the Stonewall Inn. Police claim that Gibson injured himself because he was so intoxicated that he fell down and hit his head outside and vomited. The officers have also made claims that they were ”touched and advanced” upon inappropriately by the gay patrons. Many eyewitnesses say the police came in with plastic wrist ties in hand, harassed and arrested non-intoxicated individuals, and in the case of Gibson, threw him to the floor and hit his head in the process. Two Council members have called for an investigation. Apparenlty the law states that you can drink at a bar but not be ”publicly intoxicated.” (Dallas Voice) (WFAA)
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