I pulled this from The Post Dispatch’s website today:

2 are arrested in fight
at Chuck E. Cheese’s

Police arrested two people after a brawl at a Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant in south St. Louis County on Sunday.

The incident began when two customers began fighting about 5:30 p.m. at 720 South County Centerway. When a manager asked the families involved to leave, a man attacked him.

The assailant, who police identified as Gerald Farrow, 25, of St. Louis, was choking the manager when officers arrived, police said.

Police said Farrow punched an officer in the face when he intervened. The suspect fought with officers inside and outside the restaurant while a crowd gathered around. Police used pepper spray and a Taser to subdue Farrow. One officer suffered a serious shoulder injury in the fight.

A boy, 16, also was arrested after police said he interfered with the arrest. He was released to his custodian and referred to St. Louis County Family Court.

Farrow, of the 4200 block of Perton, was charged Monday with second-degree assaulting a law enforcement officer, felony resisting arrest and third-degree assault. He was being held on a $50,000 bond.

That’s my buddy Ger. Apparently, some guy pushed Ger’s wife, and Ger proceeded to beat him senseless. Sadly, then he found out that the guy he was beating was an off duty police officer.

Seeing as the cop started the fight it looks like he’s going to get off scot-free. It just amazes me how a “respectable” newspaper can manage to breeze over the parts of the story that make the city look bad.