The Blazing Saddle, a gay bar in Des Moines’ East Village in Iowa, was “violently raided” and “terrorised” by police officers on Monday (1 June) – the first day of Pride Month.
According to an official statement from the bar, staff members were watching a Black Lives Matter protest a few blocks away at the Capital building and were on hand to assist the injured with a “backpack full of first aide supplies.” “We were here just keeping an eye on the bar, not even at the protests that evening,”