Cops Crash Their Car Into Missouri Gay Bar and Arrest Its Co-Owner

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 allegedly struck him “hard in the chest with an open hand, causing me to temporarily lose my balance,” the officer wrote.

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