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Man Who Menaced Gay Bar with Gun Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

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threatened to shoot up the oldest continuously operating gay bar in Minneapolis last year.According to court documents, on Nov.

28, 2022, Minneapolis police officers were called to respond to a disturbance at the historic 19 Bar, in downtown Minneapolis.

When officers arrived on scene, several people pointed to a man — later identified as Conell Walter Harris — and accused him of pulling out a gun after being told to leave the bar.Harris resisted arrest and tried to reach into the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt.

After detaining him, police recovered a stolen .45 caliber Glock model 30 pistol from Harris’s pocket.Upon interviewing other bar patrons, police determined that Harris had entered the gay bar and began “acting strangely.” When an employee asked him to show his ID, he became upset, allegedly saying: “I ain’t going nowhere.”The bartender asked Harris to leave, but he refused and pulled out a gun, threatening to shoot up the bar.

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