3. The building in which the club is located is owned
by the same group of investors who own the former Rite Aid at 43rd & Walnut
that they're proposing for a state liquor store.
What does this say about the ability of a property
owner, let alone a commercial lessor, to control what happens outside an
establishment?
Wow.
On 10/29/07 10:07 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Channel 6, the DN, and the Inky all covered the trouble at Koko Bongo over the
> weekend, at which one patron died and one police officer was wounded. For
> convenience, I put all three reports online together at www.nonid.blogspot.com
> <http://www.nonid.blogspot.com> ; it's the first item.
>
> This occurrence raises a plethora of issues for the community. Here are some
> to start:
> 1. If this club is known to be a trouble spot, has there been any effort to
> have it closed down -- as have other "nuisance" establishments in the general
> area?
> 2. There was apparently a fracas outside this place last week, causing
> someone (and if so, who... the 18th Police District Command, UCD, The Penn
> Police, Lt McCurdy of the UC ministation, the local chapter of the TonTon
> Macoute, other?) to have -- as the DN said -- "10 officers ... assigned to
> handle crowd control as patrons poured out... the officers attempted to move
> the crowd ... a small group of individuals refused to budge... When officers
> persisted, at least one man, Lamarr Bembry [who was subsequently killed by
> the police], turned and fired." To what, if any, extent was the gunplay the
> result of the way the police handled the situation (the way those who were
> there acted to "handle crowd control," the arguably oppressive deployment of
> 10 officers at the place, the fact that two police officers resorted to
> gunplay with hundreds of people crowded around?
> 3. The building in which the club is located is owned by the same group of
> investors who own the former Rite Aid at 43rd & Walnut that they're proposing
> for a state liquor store. What does this say about the ability of a property
> owner, let alone a commercial lessor, to control what happens outside an
> establishment?
> Enquiring minds want (and deserve) to know the full story,
> Al Krigman
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