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Controversial bill would force business owners to take down bulletproof glass
Fox 29 News ^
| November 27, 2017
| WTFX
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."
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cindybass; crime; korean; pennsylvania; philadelphia; stopandgobill
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To: roadcat
There are gas stations that don’t allow customers in after a certain hour (maybe 10pm on weeknights and midnight or 1 on weekends, if that).
They have a tray/door that allows cash to trade hands, credit card receipts to be signed, and Red Bull, cigarettes, and chips to be dispensed (like at a drive through at the bank).
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:21:39 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: Scarpetta
Come on. Prove this is bullet proof glass. I dare you.
What idiots.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:21:40 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Scarpetta
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:22:07 PM PST
by
semaj
(Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
To: Scarpetta
They couldn’t solve this problem I simply reducing welfare payments so the boys in the hood wouldn’t be too fat to climb over the bulletproof glass. And it would save money!
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:23:32 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Scarpetta
Councilwoman Cindy Bass doesn't like it when the racism card is pulled on her apparently, since she resents that charge. 8>)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
This guy should move to California.
They’ve defelonized shoplifting,
and robbery is just shoplifting in force.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:23:46 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
To: Scarpetta
First of all no such thing as bulletproof there is bullet resistant though
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:25:28 PM PST
by
The SISU kid
(I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
To: PAR35
Bet there’s bullet proof glass on their drive thru windows where people pay the taxes and auto registrations.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:26:05 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Drew68
Had a tough time finding it anywhere.
http://planphilly.com/articles/2017/11/03/council-advances-bills-on-truck-cranes-vinyl-siding-stop-n-go-stores-and-slapp-suits
The problem seems to be that restaurants having liquor licenses have stopped selling\serving food, attracting unsavory characters, causing the bullet-proof glass to be put up.
STOP-N-GO-AWAY
Council's long burning crusade against so-called “stop-n-go” bars also came to a climax. These are neighborhood bars that elide the spirit, if not the
letter, of liquor license regulations requiring food for on-site consumption and seating for patrons. Councilmember Cindy Bass and others have long
denounced them as nuisances that promote public drunkenness by serving beer and occasionally shots of liquor late into the evening.
The bill seeks to regulate bathroom access, another requirement for businesses serving alcohol. Under Bass's bill, restrooms would only satisfy the public
access requirement if they were readily accessible to patrons, and not, for example, located in the back of a kitchen or other area normally
restricted to employees. She would also prohibit those seeking a large establishment license — which provides seating for 30 or more — from
erecting a physical barrier between themselves and the customers. That would effectively ban the bulletproof glass that often separates customers
from proprietors in many late-night neighborhood establishments.
“Currently, with stop-n-gos in my neighborhood, they're mostly in poor neighborhoods, mostly in ‘the hood,’ as we know it,” said Bass. “I have more stop-
n-gos in my district than I have public schools, and something is really wrong with what's happening here.”
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:26:13 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.Ever.)
To: Scarpetta
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:26:42 PM PST
by
The Toll
To: Terry Mross
"There are mirrors that are one way. From one side you can see through it. From the other side its a mirror. Someone should come up with glass thats one way bullet. One side is bullet proof. The good guy side isn't."
They make this glass. Or rather, they made this glass. I saw it demonstrated in the 1990s. It was designed for armored cars, so the body guards could fire out. One thing though, one shot from the inside, allowed outside shots to penetrate. I have no idea if anyone actually bought it.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:28:41 PM PST
by
fini
To: Drew68
Probably the same rationale as that for the Sullivan Law in New York.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:31:27 PM PST
by
arthurus
To: a fool in paradise
...No establishment shall erect or maintain a physical barrier...
BLM is concerned that bullets fired at clerks will ricochet back and kill the armed robber.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:32:30 PM PST
by
Sasparilla
( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
To: Drew68
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. This is the Womens Temperance Union of the modern age.
She blames these small stores for the fact that the men in her district spend a lot of their time drunk and violent.
And she thinks that if she forces the stores owners to be vulnerable to that violence that they will stop selling 40s to her constituents and those constituents will become less violent.
The Korean stores sell the booze the blacks consume the booze. If the Koreans stop selling the booze the boozers will go elsewhere to buy the booze (somebody elses neighborhood). Maybe the violence will follow them.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:35:46 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: a fool in paradise
How can blacks earn money if they can’t get past the bulletproof glass??????
To: Scarpetta
We don’t want thugs to feel like they aren’t trusted.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:42:01 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: Scarpetta
Well, whaddaya know ...
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:44:34 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: a fool in paradise
The banks in Costa Rica have a guy outside with a shotgun. Only a couple of people at a time are let in. When you get inside, there is another guy with a shotgun. They take money very seriously there.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:51:39 PM PST
by
hanamizu
To: Noumenon
Heh. I see what you did there, Gabby.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:54:07 PM PST
by
Company Man
(It's GREAT to be a Christian cis-gendered white male conservative over 50)
To: KrisKrinkle
They are already selling booze out of car trunks and kitchens. Check out the episode on illicit (tax free) booze from the Discovery channel.
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posted on
11/27/2017 6:55:05 PM PST
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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