As crowds looked on from a line waiting outside the Good Night John Boy nightclub in downtown St. Petersburg, bouncers of the bar had a man with a bloody face pinned to the concrete.
The man had tried to cut in front of others to get back into the 1970s-themed club, known for a large disco ball that hangs above the dance floor. When confronted by a bouncer, the man head-butted him.
This was no ordinary unruly patron that night in early September. It was 39-year-old Randall Crawford — a lieutenant with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office — who was out partying with other command-level deputies from the agency…