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Posted on 11/27/2017 8:34:01 PM PST by Phillyred
Controversial bill would force business owners to take down bulletproof glass
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....
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Well that is what she wants, of course.
She sounds like a terrorist.
Fit 30? You sure she's not started traveling down that Obama fascist model of government/business cooperation?
The business get all kinds of grants because they have potatoes and tomatoes.Close them all down.
The shops should buy a couple dozen doughnuts and sell them for $15 each. That is if anybody is interested in eating.
And Skittles and Purple Drank.
Stupid and a friend of criminals is no way to go through life in a sane city, but then, again, it’s Philadelphia.
I went to college down the street from the store mentioned in the beginning of the story. It was a rough neighborhood on a good day until Chief Rizzo took over and starting killing criminals. Then the working people had a respite from serious crime until the next Democrat mayor (after Mayor Rizzo) came in and let crime rise (and I don’t believe it has ever stopped, even with Ramsey as their Police Chief today).
Cindy Bass is a leftist ass and has no class. Wonder how much the local gangs are paying her to sponsor this legislation? Remember, this is Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Harm”.
The first time one of the stores or banks gets robbed (especially if someone is killed) there will be lots of lawsuit that will bankrupt the city.
Actually, she might have a point here. I am not real happy about pushing that law, but those shops are an eyesore, health hazard and moral quicksand patch.
They only exist to feed the drinking habits of some of the people in that area. I wish they would go away also.
What will she say to banks that have branches in the city?
If you take away the liquor stores, a lot of the ‘hood will become a food desert.
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Elected criminal Democrats want to even playing field for street Democrat criminals.
I can’t believe she doesn’t know how to solve this problem, outlaw robbery and then the stores don’t need bulletproof glass. /S
The bill should be called ‘Thugs opportunity for shooting victims during robberies Act.’
Yep! ...Hard working, intelligent, and upwardly mobile Asians are being targeted.
Yep! ...Hard working, intelligent, and upwardly mobile Asians are being targeted.
So do I but let’s be realistic. The current population doesn’t want food. They want cheap liquor and cigs.
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