Zandrea Sanders

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-shooting-rampage-bartender-charged-cowboys-football-watch-party


The article I chose is about a Texas bartender accused of serving an intoxicated man who later went on to kill 8 people during a shooting rampage at a football watch party 2017 was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor. Lindsey Glass, 27, was arrested and faces a fine up to $500, a year in jail, or both, after allegedly violating a texas Alcoholic Beverage Code that restricts "sale to certain persons."
"A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence sells an alcoholic beverage to an habitual drunkard or an intoxicated or insane person," according to the code. She worked at the Local public House in Plano, where Spencer Hight showed up on the night of Sept 10, 2017 and was served despite displaying signs of intoxication at the bar. Glass had texted another bartender saying that Hight was in the bar earlier that day and "had 2 gins and he only has 2 beers and a shot when he came back I think he was at another bar while he was gone." She sent another text that read, "Spencer has a big knife on the bar and is spinning it and just asked for his tab and said i have to go do some dirty work... Psychoooooooooo," according to the report obtained by NBC5.




This relates to U.S History because of The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (formerly the Texas Liquor Control Board) was created in 1935. Under the Code, the TABC, "shall inspect" supervise and regulate every phase of the business of manufacturing, importinh, exporting, transporting, storing, selling, advertising, labeling, and distributing alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale or otherwise.