An elected official from Crescenta Valley inLos Angeles resigned after being recognized as one of the men who reportedly urinated at the staff entrance of a well-liked LA gay bar and then got into a physical fight with a staff member.
“Today, Councilmember Chris Kilpatrick resigned from the Crescenta Valley Town Council. This resignation was immediately accepted,” a short statement posted to the Crescenta Valley Town Council’s Instagram on Thursday read.
Kilpatrick resigned after the incident on Saturday, March 9. According to Precinct management, the two men were customers who somehow left the bar with full drinks before turning a corner into an area off the street and in view of security cameras at the staff entrance.
A video posted on the bar’s Instagram page earlier this week shows what occurred next.
The pair decided to “expose themselves and urinate all over it together 💛,” Precinct management wrote in the post.
“After finishing,” Precinct added, “they turned the corner and one of the managers saw the drinks and attempted to take them away; the larger one reacted by physically assaulting him, throwing him to the ground.
The “larger one” was identified on Instagram almost immediately as Kilpatrick. RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Willam was one of the first people to mention Kilpatrick in a comment on Precinct’s post. The council member’s own Instagram account has since been deactivated.
“His IG went dark quicker than he did 😂,” another user observed.
This week, Kilpatrick got a lawyer to provide his own version of events that night.
Referring to Precinct staff who confronted the councilman and his boyfriend when they tried to reenter the bar, his representative said in a statement, “The individuals were not in uniform. They did not identify themselves as staff or security personnel from Precinct bar. The first person grabbed my client aggressively and asked if he had been at Precinct Bar. My client instinctively pushed back in self defense.”
And then the unexpected turn of events:
“It was reasonable for him to believe that they were about to potentially be attacked by these 2 individuals.”
Jeremy Lucindo, general manager of Precinct, stated KTLA News the bar’s Instagram post was only meant to “call out bad behavior.”
Precinct management were unaware that Kilpatrick, who owns a construction business and has served on the town council since 2020, was an elected official, Lucindo said, adding that he’s been made aware that “they’ve had a history of kind of acting up like that.”
