Bartender Beaten After Refusing To Serve Alcohol To Cop

[Dankdude]

CHICAGO -- Authorities in Cook County have charged a Chicago police officer with aggravated battery after a female bartender was beaten in an attack caught on camera.

WFLD-TV reported that that the incident happened at Jesse's Short Stop Inn on Feb. 19 while the officer was off-duty.

The videotape shows a large man shoving a much smaller woman to the floor and repeatedly punching her. According to the TV report, the attack happened when the bartender refused to serve the man any more alcohol.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office has charged Anthony Abbate, 38, in connection with the attack. Abbate was arrested at his home on Chicago's Northwest Side Tuesday night.

Chicago police officials say Abbate has been stripped of his police powers and the department will seek to fire him. His attorney has refused to comment on the case.

 

[Tarkus]

They should just throw him in a prison and make him wear his uniform the whole time. I am sure some fellas in there can shove him around like a little girl.

 

[Irishslappop]

oops, forget that you weren't on duty????

 

[SUNSIMULATOR+]

thats sux ,, but i thought yall were talking about our bartender !! i was about to load up and show up for my buddy!! lol was worried for a sec ,, but still very bad news !! cops suck ass!!! or most do ,, not all ,, but most!

 

[stihgnobevoli]

true not all cops suck but most do. like 90%. but some are ok. like this one cop called to my friends house for reasons i wont state told us we should go to the lakefront and drink some beers for a while. i was all like lol isnt it illegal to drink in the park. he didnt even say anything about all the weed smells emanating from the apartment, we had just got through smoking.

anyway that guy should go to prison for aggravated battery like anyone else, and since he was intoxicated at the time he should get extra penalties like anyone else would had they had cannabinoids in their system.

 

[imnotcrazy]

Cops get away w/ more than you know. A local NJ town cop was busted in NYC doin cocaine w/ two girls outside of a bar. He and both girls were arrested by NYPD. The girls are facing charges and all that happened to the cop was a forced resignation. I feel that's pretty fucked up considering he would have lost his job anyway (same as anyone else) if he had to serve time. Granted, losing a 75K/year job is punishment but he would have lost his job regardless if he got put away and had to do a stint.

 

[Guest]

They should just throw him in a prison and make him wear his uniform the whole time. I am sure some fellas in there can shove him around like a little girl.

Excellent thought...

ws

 

[qwerty]

I hope they send him to prison. I HATE violent drunk assholes. Especially cops!

 

[Uncle Jesse]

link to the video

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/M....jsp?contentId=2725598&version=1&locale=EN-US

 

[Tarkus]

Well, now that I have seen the video, he was clearly defending himself. What a worthless human. He should have been blown away right there by her. As a bartender, how can you not pull the shotty out as soon as you see someone coming behind the bar? Poor woman, that had to be scary.
And holy crap it took everyone else in that bar along time to react!! If I was the lady I would be damn pissed that they stood around and watched. I would have jumped the bar and smashed a bottle of Jack over that pig's snout. At least someone finally helped out.
That seems to be a real problem these days, apathy. People would rather stand around watching a man beat a woman to death instead of jumping in. "It doesn't effect me" kind of attitude. It is called common courtesy, but it ain't common anymore.
Sort of like common sense.

 

[daisy jane]

I can't believe no one helped the girl when it all started!! Please excuse my cursing, but what a bunch of assfucks!!!!!

 

[GOT_BUD?]

1 bullet for the asshole, and 10 lashes for the douchebags. I would have been across that bar in a blink to beat that fuck senseless. NOBODY FUCKS WITH MY BARTENDER!!!!

Actually, bullets for all of them!

 

[NiteTiger]

Yeah, what the fuck was with the guys just standing there watching that shit?! I'd have been over that bar in a heartbeat! So he's big, that's what all the beer bottles are for, and I'll bet the owner wouldn't have minded you grabbing a coupla of the big ones either.

Notice how the bitch ran when people actually started coming to help her?

What a fucking dick.

Doesn't have shit to do with him being a cop though - a belligerent ass muncher is a belligerent ass muncher no matter what he does for a living.

 

[_angst_]

I can't believe nobody stepped in. I would have. Judo that drunk piggy up.

 

[Guest]

that is some shameful shit, those guys standing around watching...shit i'd love to have a reason to break a handle of liquor over the back of a cop's head! if that cop lives in that neighborhood i think he might have four or five black flag-type polish guys paying him a visit now that the story is out...

 

[daisy jane]

I would have loved to have been there. I am just waiting for my chance to hit a cop on the back of a head with a beer bottle. I wonder if the pig will get a fair sentence or just a slap on the wrist. I can guess what is going to happen, but I hope that my judgment is wrong on this one...protect and serve my ass

 

[buckeye-leaf]

wow that video is awful poor lady was 1/3 of his size, those guys just standing around should have put a few beer bottles over that pigs head.

 

[Verite]

His wife must have left him earlier in the day for the family dog as the dog showed the world his oral technique on The Jerry Springer Show.

 

[Tarkus]

I cannot believe people would pass on the chance to legally beat the tar out of someone. Much less another worthless drunk. Much less another worthless drunk of a cop! Sigh, it is just sad. Good thing bars do not cause as much damage and violence as a joint would.

 

[Guest]

In defense of the bystanders (sorta)...

This guy is a cop, and sure as shit those guys knew it - anybody who gets involved w/ a cop is probably gonna find he's a marked man. Cops - good or bad - tend to protect their own. Imagine being a "marked" man in Chicago? No thanks.

The thin blue line has a way of tightening around civilians nuts...

Does this make it right? No...

Do I understand why some mighta had 2nd thoughts? Yup...

Would I have helped? I've jumped into less...

ws