Michael Berry: Conservative "Blow The Mosque Up" Radio Host In Gay-Bar Hit-And-Run, Report Says
KPRC has a report that Houston police are investigating a hit-and-run incident that involves KTRK host Michael Berry at a gay bar.
Berry left T.C.'s Show Bar in Montrose around 11 p.m. January 31, drove in reverse for 70 feet and hit a car owned by the club's bouncer, which is always a bad move.
It was drag night at T.C.'s, the station said.
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Berry, a former city councilman, is your prototype fire-breathing Obama-hating right-wing talk show host. He earned nationwide attention (and, mostly, contempt) two years ago when he said of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque":
More:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/02/michael_berry_conservative_blo.php
Also:
Police watch bar video in hit-and-run probe
Victim accuses talk show host of hit-and-run
HOUSTON -
Security camera footage from a well-known gay bar has played a key role in a hit-and-run investigation of a former Houston City Councilman, who is now a conservative talk show host, Local 2 Investigates reported on Wednesday.
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Tuderia Bennett, of Galena Park, told Houston police that he was working as a bouncer at the front door during a popular cross-dressing 'drag show' that was going on inside the club. He watched the crash happen and told police he rushed up to the car after impact and got a good look at Berry behind the wheel.
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HPD officers involved in the investigation said that the Harris County District Attorney's office has declined to file criminal hit and run charges in the case, telling officers that no one can positively identify Berry being behind the wheel for the crime.
"I'd say that's the government at work. I mean, that's corruption at its best," said Bennett.
More:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Police-watch-bar-video-in-hit-and-run-probe/-/1735978/8784614/-/fb6y59z/-/index.html
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They have video that places Berry in the bar, and a witness who saw him leave the bar and who can place him in the car right after the impact. Why is the DA's office saying otherwise?
rocktivity
From what I can see from the video and Google Maps, the bar ISN'T on a dead-end street -- though it might be one way!
rocktivity
an "idiotic drunk?"
rocktivity
I have been instantly suspicious of all so-called 'anti-gay' conservatives's true motives from the moment they open their mouths.
Self-loathing amongst them knows no bounds.
They do seem to have a special place in their heart for drag queens:
Rick Perry Spent $78 at La Te Da Drag Queen Show in Florida in 2009
http://domasjefferson.com/news/rick-perry-spent-78-at-la-te-da-drag-queen-show-in-florida-in-2009
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...Bennett said that as he examined the damage to his vehicle, the Tahoe circled the block, passing him. When Bennett tried to stop the Tahoe by shining his flashlight, he said he recognized the driver as a customer entering the bar that night and getting out of the same vehicle, whom he was later able to identify as Berry.
...Bennett...got the Tahoe’s license plate number as it went by him. Instead of stopping, the driver kept going and later circled the block a second time...“I thought, OK, maybe he had a change of heart, and he’s going to stop,” Bennett said. However, the driver again left the scene, he said.
That's not exactly what Bennett told KPRC/Click2Houston.com:
...HPD officers involved in the investigation said that the Harris County District Attorney's office has declined to file criminal hit and run charges in the case, telling officers that no one can positively identify Berry being behind the wheel for the crime.
And here's what's on the police report (PDF):
Unless Bennett saw Berry leave the bar, go to his car, get in, start driving backwards, and crash, there's no direct evidence that he was the driver. There is evidence that places Berry and his car at the club, and Bennett can place Berry in his car. But now I understand why the DA has been keeping his distance.
rocktivity
