St. Charles police responded to three fights and a man passed out in a downtown parking lot over the holiday weekend before the City Council tabled action on a proposal to require bars to close at 1 a.m.
St. Charles police used a Taser to subdue an intoxicated man who, according to officers, had accosted two individuals and then displayed his fist and approached an officer in a fighting stance when the officer told him to calm down on Friday night. It was one of three instances of violence and another of public drunkenness police responded to in the four days leading up to Tuesday’s St. Charles City Council meeting, where a Naperville attorney representing 11 bars and restaurants asked city officials to delay a proposal to cut back their hours from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. The proposal was made last month by Mayor Donald DeWitte in response to a spike in the number of fights in one weekend early in the month. DeWitte at that time said police told …
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Donald Ramsell
3:15 pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
How does an incident with a Taser that occurred at 11:06 pm provide any support for closing the bars at 1am instead of 2am? The next one reported was a fight at 9:32 p.m. The man passed out and FOUND at 2:06 a.m. clearly stopped drinking prior to the 2 a.m. closing. So if this is the support for cutting down the hours of the people who work and pay taxes, then I remain unconvinced, and it appears… more ›