Effing Liar

Jeff Halstead, Fort Worth Chief of Police. From WFAA, via Dan Savage:

Monday, police chief Jeff Halstead said the officers' actions are being investigated. However, he also said that officers that entered the bar during the scheduled inspection were touched inappropriately.

"You're touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that's offensive," he said. "I'm happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that."

He has no objective evidence to support his statement, and the accounts of eyewitnesses -- including video recordings -- directly dispute everything he's claiming.

This man needs to be fired. That's for starters.

Savage has contact information for the Mayor and city council members in Fort Worth.

Jim Burroway has an update on the condition of Chad Gibson, the 160 pound man who is accused of "groping" Fort Worth Police officers --he's also the one who has been in the hospital in serious condition, which classification has now been revised to "fair."

Burroway also has a post detailing Gibson's treatment during his arrest, with an update that establishes that Gibson was drunk but nowhere near "alcohol poisoning."

Here's a TV news report on the incident:



Y'kow, it occurs to me that if it takes five Fort Worth police officers to subdue a 160 pound faggot who's offering no resistance, maybe they're right to be afraid of us.