Officer who crashed SUV into gay bar wasn’t tested for intoxication

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department SUV
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A police officer who crashed his SUV into a Missouri LGBTQ+ bar — leading to the arrest of the bar’s co-owner —wasn’t tested for intoxication at the time of the incident, a St. Louis police official has revealed. Surveillance video shows the vehicle running a red light before the crash, which contradicts the police department’s evolving explanations for what caused the crash.

Related: LGBTQ+ bar owner charged with felony after cops crash SUV into his business

Now the state’s governor has called for the department to release the arresting officers’ bodycam footage of the incident. The bar co-owner says that police gave him a back eye, and his lawyer wants all criminal charges against him dropped.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Colonel Renee Kriesmann told reporters that the department didn’t test the officer who crashed for alcohol or drug use because there was no “reasonable suspicion” that the officer was intoxicated, The Riverfront Times reported.

Kriesmann said that the driver was…

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