Comments on: Atlanta Police Defend Eagle Raid, Think They Can Search Everyone at a Public Place

By: roger

roger — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:44:47 +0000

No legal mind here, but is a civil or criminal suit pending? “Nailing these people back” is the only language they understand.

By: Milkman

Milkman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:28:57 +0000

This particular form of gay discrimination seems to happen everywhere in the southern states. It happened to me and my X when we lived in Nola. We were out enjoying a friday night at the “Ninth Circle” when 8-10 undercover cops who had no visible badges came in, closed the doors and proceeded to search everyone at the bar. They didn’t make anyone lay on the ground but they were rough with almost everyone. The only people who went to jail were the ones who questioned, or refused to be searched. They found no drugs or anything illegal. I think these pigs need to wake up and realize this isn’t the 70’s when they could get away with taking gay people to jail for being gay on a friday night. My friend who grew up in the 70’s openly gay, said that the cops would go on Bourbon St. every weekend and arrest any gay man who was on the street for charges like, lude conduct and obstruction of public property (sidewalk). The way they dealt with it was to make sure that every weekend EVERYONE would stand on the sidewalk and just wait for it to happen and made sure nobody was violent. After several months of this, the crowd of people grew larger and larger until they could no longer take everyone to jail. They even made a game of it. Who could get all the way to jail with their cocktail. My point is, those days are gone because our gay brothers and sisters made these types of sacrifices and some payed with their lives. We can’t allow our state or federal government to think that this type of behavior is okay if its only practiced on the minority. Otherwise the efforts of our gay brothers and sisters who paved the way will be in vane. If there is a march in Atlanta over what has happened, you can bet your cock ring I’ll be there!

By: Renegade

Renegade — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:33:29 +0000

My suggestion is a simple one for those of us who visit ATL. I WILL spend my money in The Eagle. BUT… I can easily BUY MY GAS AND MY HOTEL OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. That’s not too much to ask. We just have to make sure the city knows it.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:08:25 +0000

A group of 10 from Virginia were down not only for the football game over labor day but for Xplosion. We figure we spent about $8000 while in Atlanta sight seeing and visiting restaurants, taxis and hotel rooms. We did visit some gay friendly establishments but now I fear that not only will we not feel comfortable at the bars, we may not decide to return to Atlanta for Sports or entertainment of any kind.
I hope Atlanta’s police will realize that they may have cost the city some really needed revenue..