City to pay $1 million-plus to settle Atlanta Eagle dispute

[sgsmith]

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/city-to-pay-1-768727.html

Atlanta's long battle with the Atlanta Eagle club is finally over, and the city is $1 million poorer for it.

On Monday, the Atlanta City Council passed a resolution to settle a lawsuit in its dispute with the Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Midtown that was the location of a botched police raid in September 2009.

The council voted 14-0 to make the payment of $1,002,500 in the case of Calhoun v. Pennington, but it reserved deep discussion on the matter to executive session. Geoff Calhoun was a patron of the bar, and Richard Pennington was the city's police chief at the time of the raid.

[MNBrewer]

1. any criminal penalties for the thugs that carried it out?

[racaulk]

2. Fantastic!

I'm glad there is finally some relief (in terms of financial restitution and the end of legal proceedings) for the bar patrons that were put through this unnecessary ordeal. I hope the police officers that were involved in this are raked over the coals.

K&R

[foxfeet]

3. K&R