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Impromptu Pro-Gay & Confusingly Anti-Hanan Street Protests
 by NineInchNachos on 7/8/2007 @ 11:05am |
Downtown Tacoma! see what's happening: www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma-crime-watch... |
 by AP on 7/8/2007 @ 11:14am | Is that outside Artifex? |
 by KevinFreitas on 7/8/2007 @ 11:17am | Yea, they're making her vigilant early morning surveillance of the area near On the Rocks seems like an anti-gay issue. Truth is she's documented well it has nothing to do with anyone's sexual preference but with images of drug transactions she's just trying to make her neighborhood safe. What disturbs me as well is her account that this stuff is going on well after the bars are suppose to be closed.
Echoing a printed sign in the window of Vin Grotto says, we support you Laura! |
by KevinFreitas on 7/8/2007 @ 11:18am | "Is that outside Artifex?"
Nope, it's in the same block but below and on the Pacific Ave side of thing. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/8/2007 @ 3:15pm | I believe directly behind the folks in this photo is the law firm renting the downstairs of the Artifex building. If you were to look up one story you'd see an Artifex logo.
We of Artifex can look across and see Laura's building. I've worked here in this location for the past 5 years. It's always been in the daylight, so I miss out on all the night goodies. Not so anymore thanks to laura's flickr stream! |
by NineInchNachos on 7/8/2007 @ 3:30pm | also, the people with the signs are spinning this as a sexual preference issue just cause it happens to be a tool available to them (you know just like when OJ said he was black).
This is not necessarily an unfortunate turn of events since more people are likely to be interested now. More people paying attention is BAD for elected officials looking to stay in power, More people paying attention is GOOD for folks hoping for change. Fan the flames! |
 by Erik on 7/8/2007 @ 9:23pm | Some behavior is simply difficult to explain away in a normative fashion:
www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma-crime-watch... www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma-crime-watch... and one of the best yet: www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma-crime-watch... |
by Erik on 7/8/2007 @ 10:49pm | (Seattle is dealing with this as well)
City council proposes new nightclub rules 07:45 AM PDT on Friday, July 6, 2007 By ROBERTA ROMERO / KING 5 News SEATTLE - A recent downtown shooting and new concerns about safety has the Seattle City Council trying to come up with some new rules to curb the violence and rowdiness. Residents have been butting heads with bar and club owners for years about drunks, noise and litter. Early Monday, a woman was shot in downtown Seattle outside a popular nightclub. Now Seattle City council is proposing new rules to try to stop the escalating violence. City council proposing new rules to curb downtown violence and rowdiness Neighbors say the latest shooting is becoming all too familiar. "She was just laying down non-responsive and not moving. I only saw if from about 20 feet away when I came around the corner to see what was going on," said a witness. "It was sad. It's the neighborhood now. It's kind of sad." On any weekend night in Seattle when the bars close and the patrons leave, the party continues outside, and many times that's when the trouble starts. So now Seattle City Council is proposing some strict new rules. Those rules include requiring nightclubs to pay into a security pool that would hire off duty Seattle police officers to patrol the area. Also five nights a week two city inspectors would cite clubs violating noise occupancy and litter rules. And finally the city would impose steep fines on clubs that broke the rules. Bar and club owners have said in the past they too want a safe environment, but the burden should not be on them alone. "It would be really unfair for my employees to have to go out and keep people from doing drugs on the street or fighting in the parking lot," said one club owner. "They don't have the tool at their disposal to do that." These new city council proposed rules come on the heels of Mayor Nickel's proposal. He wants to require nightclubs to pay for a special license that would require bar owners to keep the peace. A city council committee is set to vote on the draft legislation next month. If it passes, it will then go to the full city council. www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/storie... |
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