Bar Commission Apologizes For Texas Raid!

It’s about time!!!
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has apologized for the reckless raid of the gay bar, Rainbow Lounge, last month as the agents involved committed “clear violations” of the organization’s policies.
To say the least!
The raid resulted in serious injuries, including one patron being hospitalized with head trauma.
According to the Dallas Voice, TABC administrator Alan Steen has put the agents on desk duty pending investigation and their supervisor has retired in the wake of the controversy.
├óΓé¼┼ôI don├óΓé¼Γäót think you have to dig very deep to figure out that TABC has violated some of their policies,├óΓé¼┬¥ Steen said. ├óΓé¼┼ôWe know that, and I apologize for that. Like I said in my original press release, we have in the past and we will in the future act very swiftly in making sure that those issues are corrected. It├óΓé¼Γäós real clear that however it is that we were doing business that night is not the typical TABC. … I have good policy in place, I have good training in place, and I have good supervision in place to ensure that things like this don├óΓé¼Γäót happen.├óΓé¼┬¥
Well, the agents asked permission from their supervisor, who granted the raid necessary.
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“You can read that policy and you can figure out really quickly, TABC shouldn’t have even been there,” Steen said referring to the excessive show of force. “If our guys would have followed the damn policy, we wouldn’t even have 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 matter to be inspected.”
Also, the agents should not have been wearing “special events uniforms,” as they typically wear plain clothes while conducting bar inspections.
We can all agree that was no bar inspection!!!!
The results of TABC’s investigation of wrongdoing will be announced in the next few weeks at a Fort Worth press conference.
Steen claims that he’s “very, very interested in and committed to” the idea of appointing a liaison between his agency and the LGBT community.
“I just think the people of Fort Worth deserve to know that we’re very interested in this and very diligently working to get to the bottom of it,” he continued.
This was a hateful act and people need to be held accountable!