Posted on 11/27/2017 5:50:42 PM PST by Scarpetta
A controversial bill is currently working its way through city hall designed to regulate 'stop and go' liquor stores. One part of the bill would force business owners to take down bulletproof glass inside their stores. But at what cost to their safety?
Broad Deli sits on the corner of the 2200 block of North Broad, inside a wall of bulletproof glass separates customers from workers.
"The most important thing is safety and the public's safety," owner Rich Kim said.
Rich Kim's family has run the deli, which sells soda, snacks, meals and beer by the can for 20 years. He says the glass went up after a shooting and claims it saved his mother-in-law from a knife attack. Now, he may be forced to take some of the barrier down.
"If the glass comes down, the crime rate will rise and there will be lots of dead bodies," he said. A bill moving through city council reads: "No establishment shall erect or maintain a physical barrier."
It's called the 'Stop and Go' bill and is being offered by city councilwoman Cindy Bass.
"Right now, the plexiglass has to come down," she said. She wants to put some controls on these small stores that she says sell booze, very little food and are the source of trouble in her district.
Rich Kim resents the charge stores like his attract loiters and argues calls to police are often met with a slow response.
Mike Choe runs a non-profit supporting Korean-owned businesses. He plans on raising $100,000 to fight the measure.
"I do think it's a bad bill that will endanger Korean Americans,' he said.
Bass says she's battling for her constituents.
Kim argues as a Korean-American he's being targeted. "This bill targets Korean Americans," Cole asked. Bass responded, "Absolutely not. I find that offensive."
Have they been to a bank lately?
Hell even the clerks in court houses sit behind shielded glasses.
Koreans store owners who don’t want to be assualted and robbed be racist.
Also, it is important to close out the top of the bullet proof glass with the ceiling.
They will climb over the top in an attack otherwise.
Da Boyz in da Hood don lak dem bullet proof windas.
Or just threaten to toss a Molotov cocktail over the glass.
The criminals in public office don’t want their protégés to face any challenges.
A local bank got robbed last week. Bullet proof would have prevented that
Which city?
What’s the rationale behind demanding the bulletproof plexiglass come down? I couldn’t find it in the article.
Let’s be fair. Start with the city taking down the bullet proof glass in its facilities. Then the banks. Then think about the mom and pop stores.
This sounds like a Korean hunting-season bill. Are they crazy? The ghetto glass gets put up for a reason.
“Cindy Bass is near!”
A decades ago a Washington Mutual bank in SW Houston that had been repeatedly robbed installed a gated door (with metal detector) that only permitted one person to enter as a time. You’d open a door, let it fully close, and then you could open the door into the main bank area.
And it operated in conjunction with the exit door next to it. Only one of the two doors could be open at a time.
Easy answer for that question. It's making it too hard for the Blacks to rob the Koreans.
Or a gas station in South Florida? They we’re bullet proof in the 70’s.
Sounds like some armed thug customers got triggered.
This has to be LA. Right?
Looking in it makes them uncomfortable.
It seems that some stations in the late 80 s in NC were as well.
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