Video Shows Moment Bar Customer Casually Lights Cigarette and Uses Phone During Armed Robbery

Security footage of an armed robbery at St. Louis bar last week captured the moment a regular customer casually lit up a cigarette.

Police tape in a file photo. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

Security footage of an armed robbery at St. Louis bar last week captured the moment a regular customer casually lit up a cigarette moments after the gunman began to rob the building.

Tony Tovar refused to move from his bar seat as the man attempted to raid Behrmann’s Tavern on Aug. 28, video footage shows. According to police, the offender was armed with a heavily modified pistol.