Additionally, Dingman disclosed that Strain’s removal from the bar was not due to confrontations but rather a conversation with an employee.
“There was no argument … Riley was actually trying to do a good deed,” Dingman said. “They felt like, you know, maybe he had had enough.”
Just a reminder that this is coming from a family friend, not the bar itself.
Figured its worth mentioning since theres been some differences in narratives about what went down that night, depending on the source
I feel that this is an important point to keep in mind. Apparently CD is a loyal friend, and we would all like to have a friend like him at such an awful time.
However, although he knows Riley very well and we don’t know Riley at all, it’s possible that there were a few minutes there when Riley was not behaving as his usual self.
I mean,
something occurred which made two bars refuse to serve him at a certain point.
If, as CD claims, Riley was trying to do a good deed, what could that have been that resulted in him getting kicked out after a conversation with an employee?
All I can think of is IF let’s say the employee was hitting on a girl who asked him to leave her alone, and the employee refused, Riley then tried to intervene on the girl’s behalf and that pissed off the employee.
But I am completely inventing this in my head, as it does not make sense to me that Riley would be thrown out due to a “good deed” conversation with an employee. Particularly when the next bar he tried would not even allow him entrance.
NOT BLAMING RILEY but trying to put together a jigsaw that to me is not fitting together with CD’s explanation.
From what we can discern from Riley's family and friends, it does seem like he was a good kid and this night at the bar was atypical behavior for him.
JMO
ETA:
@JerseyWasHome2 @SMK777
I hadn’t seen your posts yet when I was typing the above, but I agree with both of you…maybe the employee was trying to harass another patron, otherwise I cannot conceive of how he allegedly was doing a good deed but the bar felt he had had enough…doesn’t make sense…enough of a good deed cannot be it, of course.