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St. Louis police are pledging a thorough investigation after a police SUV slammed into a bar. But supporters of the bar question why one of the owners was arrested in the aftermath of the accident, while the officers in the SUV were not tested for intoxication. No one was hurt early Monday when the police car struck the front of Bar:PM in south St. Louis but the front window was smashed. Video footage released Wednesday by Javad Khazaeli, the attorney for the bar owners, showed what he said was the...

The police officer who smashed his vehicle into a St. Louis bar and arrested its co-owner on Sunday morning ran a red light moments before the crash, according to footage shared by an attorney for the bar’s owners. Javad Khazaeli posted surveillance video from an intersection located just “a 15 second walk from the bar” that appeared to show a white SUV streaking down the road, he wrote on X. The angle of the camera does not show the color of the traffic lights in the intersection, but the timestamp...

Members of a St. Louis community are demanding answers after a police car crashed into a local gay bar early Monday morning, resulting in the arrest of one of the businesses' co-owners. Owned by Chad Morris and James Pence, Bar:PM is an LGBTQIA+ safe space for residents of St. Louis and beyond. Around 12:30 a.m. Monday night, the pair, who live above the bar, told local NBC affiliate KSDK-TV that they were startled by a loud boom. The married couple went to the front of the business only to see...

A bar owner in St. Louis, Missouri is facing criminal charges after local police crashed a patrol car through the front wall of his establishment on Monday. Chad Morris was closing up Bar:PM just after midnight when the cruiser slammed into the building, according to local station KTVI. A probable cause statement written by an officer who arrived on the scene just after the crash alleges that Morris, 37, began to “scream obscenities” at them. When the officer told Morris to back up so he could secure the scene, he...

Police officers crashed a cruiser into a St. Louis, Missouri, gay bar early Monday and then arrested the bar’s co-owner. The bar, Bar:PM, sustained damage when a St. Louis Police SUV crashed into the barroom at around 12:30 a.m., but the tables turned when officers arrested co-owner, Chad Morris — also known as Chad Wick — after police alleged that he assaulted them, Riverfront Times reported. The other co-owner, James Pence, was also cuffed at the scene but not actually placed under arrest. Moments after the crash took place, officers...

A St. Louis police officer crashed his patrol car into a gay bar on Monday and then arrested one of the bar’s owners after an alleged altercation. Chad Morris and James Pence, who co-own Bar:PM and live above it, said they came downstairs after they heard the crash at around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, according to local NBC affiliate KSDK-TV. “I was actually already in bed (and) I heard a loud boom,” Pence said, according to KSDK-TV. “I jumped up thinking it was an accident with a vehicle, and then,...

The owner of an LGBTQ bar in St. Louis, Mo. was arrested in the early hours of Monday after a police cruiser crashed into his business. The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. shortly after a police SUV slammed into the front wall of Bar:PM, a popular LGBTQ venue in south St. Louis owned by Chad Morris and his husband, James Pence. Morris was arrested after what police described as violent behavior following the crash. He was initially charged with felony assault on an officer, as well as resisting arrest, a...

An LGBT+ bar in St. Louis was crashed into by a police patrol car on Monday, then the owner of the bar was arrested, local reports say. The St Louis police car crashed into Bar:PM around 12.30am after it allegedly swerved across multiple lanes of traffic and into the building as it was closing up, Riverfront Times reported. Chad Morris, also known as Chad Wick, was arrested by police after he allegedly began to “scream obscenities” after the collision and “struck” an officer hard in the chest with his hand,...

A Missouri gay bar owner is facing criminal charges after he got upset that a police officer crashed his cruiser into the establishment. Late Sunday night, a St. Louis City police SUV crashed into Bar: PM, a well-known bar in the LGBTQ+ community located in the Carondelet neighborhood. The crash, which occurred around 12:30 a.m., sparked significant concern and multiple investigations, the Riverfront Timesreported. According to eyewitness accounts and police reports, the police vehicle, with two officers on board, lost control, overcorrected, and ultimately collided with the bar.