REPORT ON BAR RAID RELEASED

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) has released a report on the controversial raid on the Fort Worth, Texas, gay bar on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which left one man seriously injured.

The report states that the police officers who participated did not have official approval to raid in the first place.

The internal report which was released last Thursday also shows that the police officers who participated failed to inform their supervisor that a man they arrested suffered a serious head injury. 27 year old Chad Gibson was left in intensive care with a brain injury and sparked a national outcry.

The TABC agents and police officers involved say that they used force after Gibson slapped or groped one of the officers in the groin, but multiple witnesses at the bar say that no such thing happened, and the officers had no physical provocation.

“Mistakes were made, and the relationship between our agency and the gay and lesbian community, and our agency and the community as a whole, has been damaged,” said TABC spokeswoman Carolyn Beck. “We want to do everything we can to make it right.”

The report on the officers who raided the bar, Agent Christopher Aller, Agent-trainee Jason Chapman and Sgt. Terry Parsons, shows that Aller violated eight policies and procedures, Chapman violated seven and the sergeant was found to have violated four.