Giant turquoise umbrellas cast shade on patrons who dip their feet into the wading pool while sipping white wine spritzers. The retro wonderland that is this East Side bar’s patio is the definition of kitsch-in a good way. Photo courtesy Kitty Cohen's Best Bar Patio They’ve kept on trend this year by offering shareable punch bowls, too. A diverse and interesting crowd packs its large patio space to nosh on dangerously spicy Thai Kun dishes and sip on their famous old-fashioneds. It’s rare for a bar this popular to keep up its quality, but Whisler’s has managed it. Hit the dance floor and enjoy indie-electro-dance music on TuezGayz ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s tunes on Grits & Gravy Thursdays ’80s hits on Footloose Fridays and other themed nights throughout the week. People come to this Red River “video bar” for one reason: to shake their groove thing. We can’t wait to see what’s next for this local juggernaut, which has provided lots of great times via brews like the Fire Eagle IPA and Sputnik Imperial Stout. In February, Austin Beerworks displayed its prowess by tripling the size of its production facility and tacking on a new taproom at its North Austin location. He also said that the screaming woman had actually pushed the cop off once before he started recording, causing the officer to lose balance while trying to restrain Grant.The beer is cheap, the people are friendly, and it’s a piece of local history. Grant allegedly threatened the employee, telling him, “Let me into the bar, or something bad will happen.’”Įdwards adds that while he acknowledges that the video looks bad, from his point of view it seemed as if both the man and the screaming woman were heavily intoxicated. After being denied entry, Grant allegedly grabbed an employee, pulled the employee close to Grant, and motioned towards a fixed-blade knife attached to Grant’s belt.
An employee told officers than Justin Grant was denied entry to the club. “Officers were called to a nightclub on 6th Street about a man with a knife. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the arrestee in the Austin gay bar arrest video is a 23-year-old named Justin Grant who was “arrested after threatening staff at the Rain nightclub early Wednesday and charged with drug possession, resisting arrest and making a terroristic threat.”
The arresting officer then rushes towards the screaming woman, pushing her and her friend against a nearby car and then wrenching her arm behind her and he pulls her down onto the pavement and begins handcuffing her as she cries and says, “Owww!” And repeatedly says, “I didn’t do anything.”Ģ3-year-old named Justin Grant is the man who gets punched and apprehended in the Austin gay bar arrest video “The officer slammed that guy down, maybe two or three feet in front of me,” Edwards says.Įdwards’ Austin gay bar arrest video shows an Austin police officer sitting astride a shirtless man laying on the sidewalk, repeatedly punching him in the face as a woman repeatedly screams “Stop! Stop it!” When he resumes punching the man and she tries to intervene, he points a finger at her and yells, “You need to back the fuck up or you’re gonna go to jail!”Īfter they flip over and handcuff the man. When he left at 1:30 a.m., he saw a police officer tackle a man onto the sidewalk, and so Edwards started recording with his phone. Edwards had been drinking at Rain with his softball teammates early Wednesday morning.