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The crime fighting duo of Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins Jr. — but you probably know them better as the proprietors of the E2 nightclub where a deadly stampede took place 4 years ago — are claiming the cops robbed them of their money. And booze.
According to the Trib:
"Everything inside that was of value disappeared," Edward Grasse, attorney for the club owners, said Wednesday in an interview.Police guarded the club on a daily basis and reported no break-ins or thefts, Grasse said.
"That leads me to the one and only inescapable conclusion," Grasse said. "The people who were in control -- the city, the police -- took it."
They claim that, within a year, $45,000 worth of liquor in the joint, and just about $65,000 in cash, went "poof!" and disappeared. O.K., as nutty as it is to try and blame the cops for disappearing evidence, here's the really nutty part: they're not filing suit over it. Instead they merely want to call the police malfeasance brought to the court's attention. What fine community watchdogs!
What made us nose our milk when we read the story, though, is their assumption that whoever was "in control" should be held accountable for their losses. Last time we checked, they were "in control" of the club at the time of the disaster, yet they've spent the last 4 years trying to dodge any responsibility for that.
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What is really weird is that I lost my wallet that last night in E2, and it had about $65,000 in it...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Those poor, poor owners. They have suffered so much. I think I heard a plaintive violin tune in my head as I read that article.
Oh, heck, I have to do something. I am going to forfeit my salary and have my boss send it to those owners.
Maybe Jesse Jackson Sr. who vocally campaigned for justice for the owners will find the stolen
liquor. Or maybe it found its way into his basement bar. Up with hope!
Maybe they should have spent some money keeping exit doors open so people wouldn't have had to die just for going out to a club.
I agree with you Guest 4, but I'm gonna take it a step further.
You might recall when Jesse Jackson was asked why he felt it incumbent upon him as a major civil rights leader to get involved in support of the bar owners of a ghetto club (sorry that’s exactly what it was),where people were killed. He mentioned the contribution of the parents of the bar owners to the civil rights movement in the sixties.
Well, I think maybe the sons should have followed in the tradition of their parent’s( if what Jesse said is true) and created something that poor folks in their community needed other than a ghetto club ranking money in, and putting nothing out but bling bling. But some how I suspect that Jackson got a cut of the bling, or perhaps his son, Yusef’s Anheuser-Busch distributorship? I bet some where above Martin King is looking down shaking his head.