From: ED Publications
In Baltimore, some cops don’t want to pay their strip-club tabs
“Get out of my face, I will destroy all of you!” Those are the alleged words of Baltimore Police Detective Robert Burns. Burns, a 27-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was enjoying an evening out at the Chez Joey strip club (415 E Baltimore St, Baltimore) with retired officer Bryan Hake on Sunday, November 14. The pair racked up an impressive bill, somewhere north of a grand. Hey, cops can enjoy strip clubs too, can’t they?Well of course they can. But what they can’t do is decide not to pay their bills. But that’s exactly what seems to have happened on the aforementioned evening. Staff members at Chez Joey repeatedly asked the pair about their outstanding tab, but both officers outright refused to pay (Blake tried to pretend he had already paid). When it became clear the pair were going to walk out on their tab, the club called the police. It went downhill from there — for Burns and Hake, that is.When responding officers asked for Burns’ and Hake’s IDs, Burns refused and became increasingly agitated, charging documents state. “Det. Burns tried several times to push, pull, and grab his way out of the establishment through the officers,” police wrote.According to the Baltimore Sun , police claim that Burns ripped the jacket of a police sergeant while trying to throw him out of the way, “destroying the zipper and the nameplate attachment area.”
“Get out of my face, I will destroy all of you!” Burns is alleged to have said while pushing through the group of responding officers. When one of the responding officers pointed his taser at Burns, he responded incredulously, saying, “I’m calling your bluff!”
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