By Matt Hennie | Jan 15, 2013 | 11:17 AM
One of the ass-playing, strip-searching, lying Atlanta cops that raided the Eagle now says that former supervisors forced him to meet arrest quotas and would reward him like a spoiled child for doing so.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Apr 17, 2012 | 3:45 PM
The disturbing $1.2 million bill from a private law firm to investigate the Eagle raid shows just how much attorneys bilked the city–and thus, taxpayers–to produce a 343-page report.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Apr 9, 2012 | 5:32 PM
It took attorneys billing the city $395 per hour a whole lot of hours to discover what the Eagle raid patrons already knew about their rough-and-tumble treatment: The whole mess was a botched affair.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Apr 6, 2012 | 2:29 PM
Give Atlanta police some credit. They really do want to hear from LGBT residents. But they still have a few things to learn. A meet-and-greet on Saturday evening of the Easter holigay? Really.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Mar 19, 2012 | 6:50 PM
Three lawsuits, a bunch of Atlanta police misconduct, some reforms and $1.475 million later, Mayor Kasim Reed, the city and its LGBT residents might just be done with the botched Eagle raid.
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By Matt Hennie | Jan 24, 2012 | 1:29 PM
If you think Atlanta police didn’t learn a thing or two from their botched shitstorm of a raid at the Eagle in 2009, just take a look at their response to the Blake’s kerfuffle on Saturday.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Nov 3, 2011 | 4:52 PM
The botched Eagle raid claimed another victim: Cristina Beamud, the executive director of the Atlanta Citizen Review Board. She helped guide the panel of citizen appointees as it played a key role in investigating the raid.
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By Matt Hennie | Nov 2, 2011 | 11:45 AM
The sequel to the sequel–Eagle Raid Town Hall 3.0 on Tuesday–provided more than drama. It also signaled a willingness from Mayor Kasim Reed and his gay critics to bring the legal wrangling to an end.
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By Matt Hennie | Nov 1, 2011 | 1:24 PM
If Damian McGinty’s "Glee" debut won't keep you home, come out to the Eagle raid town hall. It promises an unapologetic mayor, a study in how a city bureaucracy kills police reforms and unhappy activists.
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By Matt Hennie | Oct 25, 2011 | 2:35 PM
Mayor Kasim Reed likes to explain away the Eagle raid by saying it didn’t happen on his watch. How’s he going to explain away Occupy Atlanta, which holds striking parallels to the gay bar raid?
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By Project Q Atlanta | Oct 20, 2011 | 11:30 AM
One of the six Atlanta police officers fired in the wake of investigations into the botched Eagle raid leaned on Martin Luther King Jr. as he fought to regain his job on Wednesday. Really.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Oct 14, 2011 | 5:36 PM
The Atlanta Police Department, still trying to shake a strained relationship with the city’s LGBT population, marched in the Atlanta Pride parade on Sunday with a contingent nearly 20 gay officers strong.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Oct 3, 2011 | 3:34 PM
People keep suing over the botched Eagle raid and Atlanta keeps writing checks. The latest payday came Monday when the City Council approved a $120,000 payout to eight people at the raid.
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By Matt Hennie | Sep 28, 2011 | 12:34 PM
The City of Atlanta is close to settling another lawsuit over the botched Eagle raid–two down, two to go–despite increasingly combative rhetoric from Mayor Kasim Reed over the continued litigation.
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By Matt Hennie | Sep 20, 2011 | 4:40 PM
Gay activists from the Queer Justice League, likely unhappy with the doughnut selection at a cop-tastic breakfast fundraiser on Tuesday, protested when Mayor Kasim Reed took to talking.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Sep 6, 2011 | 8:16 AM
And you thought the Eagle raid lawsuit and its $1 million settlement were over. Gird your loins for Eagle Raid Lawsuit 2.0. That ought to make the upcoming town hall with the mayor more interesting.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 31, 2011 | 11:18 AM
An unconstitutional bar raid, rogue cops, strip searches and police ass play, and a big city mayor don’t deter gay Atlanta attorney Dan Grossman. What’s next? Sticking his hands in more shit. Literally.
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