ATLANTA -- A hearing for eight people arrested in a police raid on an Atlanta gay bar was reset Monday to Sept. 29.
Last Thursday, Atlanta police arrested 8 people at the bar, including four employees that did not have a proper business license. The other four were dancers that did not have a permit to dance in their underwear.
Hundreds of gays rallied outside the Atlanta Eagle Bar on Ponce De Leon Avenue Sunday. The gay community is demanding an investigation into the Atlanta Police Department.
"The next thing I hear is down on the ground and that's where I spent the next 45 minutes face down on the floor," said bar patron Mark Danak.
Bar owners say 62 patrons were told to get on the floor while police officers searched everyone. "Let's make it clear that out of 62 people. Not one person, not one person had a weapon or drugs on their person. Not one person," said Atlanta Eagle Owner Richard Ramey.
"When they tried to ask questions they were told to shut up, but there were words with the shut up that I can not say. There was lots of profanity. Lots of profanity and lots of comments," said Ramey.
Members of the gay community said they were roughed up and called names during the raid and they would like a public apology from the police department.
"They could have conversed with us. We are human beings, we can talk. They just made us feel like second class citizens," said Danak.
