ST. LOUIS — 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...

New video shows a St. Louis Police SUV running a red light moments before it smashed into Bar:PM early Sunday morning. The video, posted to Twitter last night, shows the SUV on South Broadway headed north, past the intersection at Nagel, and blowing through a red light. The video was posted by Javad Khazaeli, the attorney for the bar’s co-owner, Chad Morris, whom police placed under arrest after crashing into his establishment. Khazaeli says that it was only seconds after the video was taken that the SUV swerved across two...

Security camera video shows a police vehicle crashing into Bar:PM, a local gay bar in St. Louis, on Dec. 18. Shortly after, one of the bar owners was arrested. (Video: Javad Khazaeli) Chad Morris was standing inside the St. Louis bar he co-owns early Monday, talking to the manager about the karaoke night they’d just hosted, when he heard a loud bang. Morris turned to see that an SUV had plowed into the front of Bar:PM, a popular gay bar. The front door was broken and a window was shattered,...

The footage is taken at a stoplight about three seconds before the SUV crashes into Bar:PM on South Broadway. It was given to attorney Javad Khazaeli on Wednesday evening by the same person who provided earlier footage of the crash, Khazaeli said. "I just don't understand how today the police department could act like nothing really happened," Javad Khazaeli said in an interview Wednesday evening. "If any other citizen were to go through a red light, lose control and crash into a building, they would be investigated." St. Louis police...

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...

Regulars said the turnout at Bar:PM was exceptional so early in the week — and no surprise for a bar treasured as a safe space by many gay men. Around 12:30 a.m. Monday, a rookie police officer drove his department-issue SUV into the bar on South Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood. Initial reporting suggested the officer swerved to avoid a dog in the road, and that one of the bar’s owners had been arrested after getting into a fight with officers investigating the scene. Later that day, the police department...

Early Sunday morning, a St. Louis police officer crashed his car into the front of an LGBTQIA+ bar. Co-owner of Bar:PM, James Pence, who lives above the bar, was headed to bed when he said he felt the building shake. He ran downstairs to find both the cruiser and the officer in the bar. The officer asked to see Pence’s identification, but Pence refused. Pence said to The Riverfront Times that he told the officer, 'No you don't. That's a police cruiser in my building. You don't need to see...

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...