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."
Whats the rationale behind demanding the bulletproof plexiglass come down? I couldnt find it in the article.
Trying to get the stores to close early so they can’t sell Ripple to the local thugs late at night. Also, it’s pretty clearly a black-Korean conflict. Blacks hate Koreans who moved into their neighbors and built successful businesses. Always have.
Make the rule apply to City Hall and the Aldercreatures offices.
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof."
This world is turning on its head.
What The Fox!
DemocRATS prefer armed robbers over Korean shopkeepers. They also would rather see dead Koreans than safe liquor stores.
Could you repeat that, I couldn't hear it...
Courts, jails, police stations, DMV offices, etc first.
You can run your experiment on public employees and once you show that there’s absolutely no reason for the barriers or armed guards, you can then require private citizens to follow your example.
Gas station attendants have it real easy now. As a teen, I worked as an attendant, mostly graveyard hours midnight to 8 am and on weekends, mostly as the only attendant on duty. My boss had me carrying a .32 revolver in my pocket, illegal to do so but I was glad to have it on me. Especially since a lot of transactions were cash. Did the cash register, besides checking oil, water, and wiping windows. When I did that, the gun would sometimes bump against fenders while using the squeegee on the windshield. Lucky I never had to use the gun.
The guy on the left looks like George Takei.
He certainly is.
Jim Dandy Chicken, an eatery on Vermont Ave. just north of the Rte. 105 freeway in South-Central Los Angeles, is in a low-income, mostly black neighborhood. When you walk in, you’ll notice a wall of bulletproof glass behind the counter stretching from wall to wall. It’s cash only, and you pay and receive your food through a slot with metal doors, just as you do for transactions at banks in high-crime areas. But there is always a line of customers, and the chicken is far better than what you find at Chick Filet or the Colonel’s.
“Close these places and somebody will start selling cheap booze out of car trunks or living rooms. And somebody else will start robbing those sellers. And the robbers will get shot because the sellers will likely be gang members, who incidentally get there product by hi jacking trucks and burglarizing warehouses.”
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Cops would have a field day, not to mention a fat pay day, with all that black market cash floating around.
We have a White Castle like that in Newark NJ; you couldn’t rob it if you tried, and they get paid before sliding your food through the prison-door slot. The only people in danger are the customers (from savages walking in off the street).
I’ve been to a gold/silver exchange like that - two sets of doors, one customer at a time - and you come up to a counter where the owner sits behind bulletproof glass.
Back in the late 1960’s, the NYPD organized their “Stakeout Unit” to deal with a wave of robberies. They would lay in wait at stores which were at high risk of being hit, and take out the robbers. They were very successful. Unfortunately, the number of robbers they put in the morgue caused the politicians to decide to disband them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tempcmb5hZU
I can just imagine the uproar if such a unit was used today.
I was told booze is heavily taxed in Philly, and the city likes the revenue.
The bill is racist. The bill is designed to provide equality between the black thieves/thugs and the Korean merchants.
The black effort is anti american
The cops don’t call them “stop-n-robs” for nothing. Stupid people.
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