Texas Alcohol Commissioner apologizes for gay bar raid; police continue to claim they were sexually assaulted
”If our guys would have followed the damn policy, we wouldn’t have even been there. We have these conversations all the time, and we don’t participate in those kinds of inspections when there’s not probable cause or reasonable suspicion or some public safety measure to be inspected.”
Alan Steen, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commissioner, apologizing for the bar raid in June at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. (Dallas Morning News)
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