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At around 11:00 PM the undercover officers signaled for a full raid to begin, and at least twelve officers of the Atlanta “ RED DOG” squad entered the bar as a “take down team,” also without a warrant. The following facts have been admitted by the Atlanta Police or confirmed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and are not in dispute.Īccording to the police, on the evening of on September 10, 2009, at least nine undercover officers entered the Atlanta Eagle without a warrant, posing as customers, for the purpose of conducting a criminal investigation. If you were present at the Eagle on the night of the raid, please click here. Since the justification for the raid was to investigate unlicensed underwear dancing and reports of lewd conduct, when the officers encountered dozens of patrons who were fully dressed and breaking no laws, they should not have detained them for even a moment, let alone subject them to a harrowing ordeal.
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In fact, there is no reason to ‘investigate” a fully-dressed person for either of these offenses, and it would seem the police were really just punishing the patrons for being at the Eagle in the first place, or conducting an illegal search for drugs.
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The actions of the police were not motivated by any real concern about unlicensed dancing or lewd conduct: Forcing fully-dressed patrons to lay face-down on the ground, searching their pockets, putting their names into a police computer, and keeping them on the floor long after they had been searched is not logically related to any legitimate investigation of lewd conduct or unlicensed underwear dancing. The Supreme Court has made it clear that police may not search or seize an individual simply because he is in a public place where others may be breaking the law, and Americans have the right to go to a legal public place without fear of being searched or seized by the police as long as they themselves obey the law. The warrantless search and seizure of everyone present at the Atlanta Eagle was simply illegal: Police officers may not search, seize, or arrest an individual unless they have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe that particular individual is personally involved in criminal activity. (The bar’s four dancers were charged with “dancing in underwear” without a permit, and four employees were charged with operating an adult entertainment establishment without a license.) No drugs were found on anyone at the bar, and no-one was charged with public sex, indecent exposure, lewd conduct, or any other crime. At the end of the raid, the only charges filed by the police were against the four dancers and four bar employees, and related to the “unlicensed adult entertainment” that the officers originally raided the bar to investigate. When the patrons were eventually released, not a single patron was charged with breaking any law. When I asked if I could move away from the broken glass, I was told, ‘ Shut the fuck up or you’ll be handcuffed.’ The police were laughing and joking while we were lying there and at different times, I heard them say, ‘You people make me sick’ and ‘I hate fags.’ One of them said, ‘This is fun we should do this every week.’” One of the patrons (whose father was a police officer), described the scene to a reporter: “Nothing was ever explained to us by the officers. (click to enlarge)Īccording to the patrons (a group which included several elderly men), police officers shoved people to the ground, threatened to hit them in the head with barstools, handcuffed people, made racist and anti-gay comments, and forced patrons to remain flat on the ground, with their faces against a floor covered in some areas with spilled beer and broken glass, even long after they had been searched and found to be unarmed.