Kink Friendly Law

For the first time in a very long time, I’m ashamed to call Atlanta home. I’m also ashamed that as an assistant district attorney I side with the police and help them fight crime. When I read about an incident like the one which occurred on Thursday night in Atlanta. When APD (Atlanta Police Department) raided the Eagle, a local gay leather bar. I find this entire incident reprehensible harking back to the “bad old days” when southern cops were mostly rednecks and good ole boys, who enjoyed taking potshots and harassing anyone who didn’t look, talk and act like them.

After reading this story I can say I’m truly ashamed and disgusted with the entire affair. And after reading the story and first hand accounts, even if you discount 50% of the negative comments and first person accounts, chalking them up to urban outrage, the APD officers were still out of line; WAY OUT OF LINE. The account describing the APD officers conduct sounds like dialog or stage directions from a low budget police drama. It really wasn’t the type of conduct I’d expect as an assistant district attorney to have my police officers exhibit during any police citizen encounter.

Considering the number of assaults, murders and robberies which occurs in Atlanta on a weekly basis, APD has plenty of very serious crime to keep themselves busy without trying to manufacture an excuse to raid a gay bar and hassle the patrons. I hope everyone reading this post feels the same level of disbelief and outrage that I feel and hopefully my readers living in the Atlanta metro area will take the time to express their outrage by writing the city council and mayors office letting them know that the citizens of Atlanta aren’t going to tolerate this kind of senseless act of hatred in this day and age.

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