The owner of the Baltimore Eagle is crying foul after the city carried out an alleged “SWAT style show of force” against the venue.
The comparison may be a tad dramatic, but it still doesn’t sound pleasant.On August 7, a dozen regulatory enforcers arrived at the Eagle to investigate a complaint that COVID-19 social distancing mandates were not being adhered to.Owner Ian Parrish told the Washington Blade the raid took place not long after he contacted the Baltimore Board of Liquor License Commissioners himself, telling the agency that he’d learned another gay bar had filed false complaints against the Eagle.Parrish doesn’t believe his alert ever reached the officials who carried out the raid, whom he says were decked out in “black body.