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Following Raid on Gay Bar, the Atlanta PD Reels from Harrassment Complaints

Joeff Davis

By Scott Henry

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | September 22, 2009

Why did police feel they needed to take down the club with the kind of force usually reserved for busting meth labs? Why did officers seem to act so unprofessionally toward the Eagle's customers, none of whom was arrested? And was the whole thing really just about sex?

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Tags: The Eagle, civil liberties, Atlanta, law enforcement, gay & lesbian issues

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