[HiTech RedNeck]

Did Sager initiate some kind of brawl? Granted if police were there, they should have tried to calm down the brawl.

[bamahead]

From what I gathered there was some type of altercation between Sager's party and the manager of this joint prior to what went down.

Not sure of the degree of that altercation, but it looks like the off-duty cops may have acted on the managers behalf and beat Sager, and then potentially conspired with him to destroy the evidence (surveillance tape in the trash).