• Another patron said he saw officers forcing people to the ground by officers pushing their shoulders or the backs of their heads. He said he asked to move because there was broken glass on the floor where he was lying, and he was told to "shut the fuck up." The customer recounted hearing anti-gay slurs: "I heard several slurs such as 'I hate homosexuals.' I also heard 'I don't like fags.' One officer asked me if I was married and had any children, and he told me I should be ashamed for being there." The customer recounted having his diabetes medication, which was in an unmarked container, taken and not returned. He recounted hearing another customer told that if he didn't be quiet, an officer would hit him over the head with one of the barstools. "There were several officers standing over me that started joking about this is a lot of fun, we ought to come back and do this every week." The customer said he heard an officer say pictures of men on the walls made him sick, and make comments about people's appearance, including calling him "big boy." He also said officers were watching the football game on TV during the raid.

• A customer said he at first thought the bar was being robbed because the first police officer to yell "get the fuck on the floor" was dressed in civilian clothes and did not display a badge.

• An employee who was arrested said that after the customers were allowed to leave, "the officers started high fiving and jumping up in the air bumping into each other like they were at a football game."

• An employee who lives in an apartment over the Eagle, who said he was not working that night, said someone started pounding on his door. He opened the door to two cops who asked if anyone was having sex there. They asked why there was a bed and he said it was because he lives there. He was made to come downstairs and was arrested with the other employees. He recalled hearing comments like "You people are despicable."

The Southern Voice also got copies of the original complaints that led to the raid. They're laughable.

The two tips seem to come from someone familiar with the Atlanta Eagle. According to the July 1 anonymous Crime Stoppers tip sent via the web, the complainant said the club was closing July 5 at 3 a.m. and would reopen at 3:15 a.m. for an after hours party to benefit the Southern Bears.

"They have hired nude dancers to dance on the bars; sex will be permitted as at most circuit parties, drugs will be sold freely. They plan on using the back entrance for admission that is located off the rear patio. They will be running a shuttle bus to and from the host hotel which is the Courtyard Marriott Northlake on Lavista Road in Tucker, GA," the tipster states. Included in the tip is co-owner Robby Kelley's alleged profile on Bear411.com.

The other tip, sent May 19 via email to Mayor Shirley Franklin as well as to TV news tip hotlines for WSB-TV, Fox Atlanta news and 11 Alive news, states:

"Mayor Franklin: The Atlanta Eagle, a bar that is situated next to one of your old campaign offices, continues to have sex parties on Thursday nights that spills out into the neighborhood. Witnesses (including myself) in the neighborhood have seen men in various stages of undress performing sexual acts on each other including oral and anal sex. Mayor Franklin, your assistance in this matter is desperately needed as people in this neighborhood are concerned about the neighborhood being turned into a brothel," the complainant stated.

"Bags of what appears to be drug residue are found strewn around a one block radius of the bar and drunk bar patrons scream and create disturbances. The neighbors that I have spoken to are scared to report anything as the bar owner has been known to retaliate against neighbors by pointing speakers with sounds of men having sex and blasting it to the residential building next to the bar ... the neighborhood is extremely fed up with this situation."

Again, if there were bags of drug residue thrown out around the bar, why weren't the police investigating those? And why were there only two complaints if "the neighborhood" is frustrated, and only one of those two complaints was related to things the bar had already done instead of things someone thought would happen?

There's going to be further investigation into the police's actions here, although I wouldn't be too optimistic that the internal investigation will end with any sort of punishment for the officers involved unless public pressure is kept up.

Which is why there's a citizens' review board:

Fauver did point out there is a Citizens Review Board for the APD, created by the City Council as a resource where citizens can also make complaints of alleged police misconduct.

The CRB came about after the 2006 shooting death of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. Undercover APD officers stormed her house and opened fire, saying later they were there as part of a drug bust. However, an investigation later found the police were lying and three of the officers involved are now serving time in federal prison.