The memo sent from Interim City Manager Chris Wilson about action already taken concerning violence at bars and nightclubs appears to indicate that the proposed Greensboro Safety Review Board is not needed.
The incidents that kicked off this latest effort to get a nightclub ordinance passed were four stabbings at Club Tranquilo on April 11, followed by a fight on April 13 where Greensboro police officers used pepper spray to end the altercation.
According to the memo, the Greensboro Police Department (GPD) “immediately and formally requested revocation of Tranquilo’s ABC permits.” The memo states, “The ABC Commission issued an emergency suspension of Club Tranquilo’s ABC permits on April 16, 2021.” So three days after the second event on April 13, the ABC permits for the club were suspended.
An incident on July 11 at One 17 Sofa Lounge where two people were shot resulted in the ABC Commission canceling the ABC permits.
Also on July 11 an aggravated assault, where three people were shot at Lucky’s Skate Shop, resulted in the operators of the club being forced out. The memo states, “The owner of the location is working with the ALE [North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement] to install new operators.” The new operators will have to apply for new ABC permits, which will cancel the ABC permits of the former operators.
The memo states, “Likewise, last year a string of violent incidents occurred at 508 Teague Street, which operated a various nightclubs and most recently as Ambiance Events Center. Because the GPD and ALE objected to ABC licenses being issued for this location, the NC ABC Commission declined to issue permits and the location is currently a car lot.”
The memo states that the proposed Greensboro Safety Review Board would create, “a more cohesive approach.” But also gives those three examples of how violent events at private for-profit businesses with licenses to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption were handled, which was to have the ABC licenses for those businesses revoked, effectively putting them out of business.
And yet the City of Greensboro can sell liquor at their events even when sworn law enforcement commits homicide thru hogtying. Violence at city owned venues will never cause them to close or lose alcohol licences.
The quality of the citizens of any city determines the local crime rate and Greensboro is going down hill faster and faster every day. We refuse to deal with the REAL problems and choose to believe what we want to be true. Keep it up and set back and watch the outcome of our behavior. QUALITY CITIZENS is the answer!!!!!
The quality of our citizens is reflected by that sorry lot of Basketball Bores and Soccer Sillies that looked like they didn’t want to be at the Olympics, and played like it, too.
US men’s basketball team now faces IRAN. You know what I am thinking.
Are you really trying to evaluate the quality of a human being based on their performance in an athletic competition?
Are you going to take that back if the women’s team wins gold?
The olympics are about the only time many of us actually are proud of and root for Americans. It’s not like there’s much to cheer for these days.
Not quite. I don’t care if the women’s team wins the gold, or the men’s team, or any of our virtue-signaling, kneeling, ungrateful representatives of America’s best.
I think you are confused by what virtue signaling is. That’s something you do to indicate a value you don’t truly hold. It’s like putting up a cross on your door to indicate you are a devout Christian but then never attending church or following the Bible.
Kneeling is something the women’s team has done FOR YEARS, to signal that they value equality on all levels. AND, they actively speak and work towards that equality. I’m fact, there is hardly anything more an American right than expressing your dissatisfaction and desire for a better America especially ina completely peaceful way.
Now let me ask you this, virtue signaler. How many Confederate Flags have you ripped down? See, you’re just signaling you are a patriot, but you don’t act on it.
Miller, did you see that purple haired lesbian terrorist score the winning penalty kick to advance the US women’s national team to the semifinal of the Olympics? Spaghetti monster, her patriotism was great!
Alright, alright, Miller was so right. The quality of humans were so low for all of America that they just couldn’t beat Canada. Imagine that, Canada has better humans than America. Good call Miller.
Those absolute horrible humans of Aruba and St. Lucia – they’ve never won a medal! Clearly it’s because it’s because of the quality of character of people that love there.
I never thought I would be scared to go to my own downtown, but I am. It is a sad sad time. The owners were put out of business but what about the actual folks that committed the crimes
It’s much easier to close a business than to deal with a criminal, especially a violent one that has RIGHTS!
Hinson is the answer.
If you go to the web, you’ll find that Club Tranquilo and One 17 Sofa Lounge are part of the African-American culture of scantily clad women who encourage young men to buy them drinks while they dance for them. Maybe they ought to be classified as restaurants which requires 50% or more of receipts to be in food and non-alcoholic drinks. Of course, that would be the end of the bars.
Also, what is the criminal record of those who are the bar owners or bar managers? Maybe the Rhino needs to publish that public record data.