Police Investigate Shooting at Lansing Night Spot
- Posted By: : I dont think we can blame Verg or the Police. It's the responsibility of the owner and the people that frequent that establishment. I know from living and growing up in the South Lansing area, this has always been a problem. I say....SHUT IT DOWN! Blame the irresponsible people that can not control themselves, not the Mayor or Police!!!! Take responsiblity in your own actions!!!!!
- Posted By: Jake: You know it is easy to sit back and say close the club down you don't have any money invested,I do not think this type of crowd would be bad if the bar would bar them for life if they started a fight.I know it is hard to tell who's who because they all look the same start taking pictures of every one that goes into the club give them a membership card with photo no one gets in unless they have a membership,and if they start any kind of problems pull thier membership.To me this would be a start. There are a lot of good people out there that don't deserve to get punished for the actions of a few.The mayor and the little beady eyed city attorney need to think about the other club owners thoughts on this, the council is more like do what I say council rather do for the people.
- Posted By: Sandi: i have spent my share of time going to the bars, however, the Venue is a crime not a bar. They were supose to hire additional security. With all the unemployment why didn't they have at least 2 or 3 guys out there patroling the parking lot at 2 a.m.? They know exactly what their patrons are like. They should have had patrols outside weeks ago. I think the Venue should be closed down, and I like the idea of a good samaritan law,if you see a crime and don't report it, you can go to jail. Lots of people had their pictures on the video lately.
Anyone who goes to a bar like the Venue and thinks even one fight in the parking lot is OK has a problem, and should stay away from the bars. This constant fighting is outragous. What are we waiting for? Someone to be killed?
- Posted By: : The city can pass a good samaritan law in which a person can serve two days in jail for not reporting a crime. It might scare some of these people into witnessing.
- Posted By: sick and tired: put em back on the boat
- Posted By: LegallyRad: Between venue and x-cel the cops are driving like a tennis match from north to south. Everytime there is an incident at a hip-hop club they should have to serve 3 weekends playing nothing but classic rock, country and bluegrass.
- Posted By: Gus: Doesn't surprise me that the Lansing Police couldnt find a suspect or a victim without some outside help. With the leadership that they have with Virg "Little Man" Bernero and Mark "I am an IDIOT" Alley, it is a wonder that they can find their car keys. As for the VENUE, the violence at that location hasn't changed since the city shut down the last night club that was there. Great job Lansing!
- Posted By: concerned: They need to shut down the Venue. Obviously the crowd that is drawn to the Venue is the same that use to frequent the Temple CLub and the LA globe. Unfortunately people do not know how to act and trouble follows these type of establishments. It is waste of resources. SHUT IT DOWN
- Posted By: Chris: I've been to probably close to 100 heavy metal concerts and clubs/events over the years, never a shooting. Their is a completely different mind set with this Venue crowd and the mentality and music it supports.
- Posted By: Concerned Citizen: This is the 3rd shooting at this club since it opened earlier this year. Since South Lansing and Holt is not known for this type of behavior, I can only surmise that the people that frequent this establishment are the problem. I think the time has come to close this place down and keep these hoodlums out out of our community!
- Posted By: Frustrated!!!: I have been a patron of the Venue since it first opened and the "stories" that the MEDIA is hyping up is just that STORIES!!!! Readers need to learn to differentiate the facts from myths...I also attended the party this past saturday night and there were not "several" fights as the NEWS 10 has advised us!!! Heck they weren't even there, but I guess you gotta keep your job somehow!!! I am so so tired of the media making a mountain out of a molehill...and furthermore, from what we could see the perpetrator was directly in front of the police...so you do the math!!! It appears to me that the Venue security do their job to get the patrons out safely, and then it would also appear to me that the police department would attempt to be "proactive" opposed to "reactive"...I have witnessed them sit across the street at Lowe's and do "absolutely nothing" to assist the Venue security when "occurences" do happen in the parking lot of Mark Realty...not the parking lot of the Venue Live!!!!
- Posted By: Tracy: How much violent crime has to happen at this club in order to shut it down? I understand it's someone's business and source of income, but come on... there's got to be some responsibility taken by the owner to protect the public and law-abiding patrons. I'm sure the owner is aware of the riff-raff coming in; use your right as the owner to deny service.
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I just thank god I don't live in Michigan!!!! sounds like the court system is seriouly warped. HOw can a father sexually assualt, abuse and inflick 37 fractures on a three month old and get 40 months?
I admire this judge - he truly stood for what was right but this sentence can never give back to the baby what was taken away.
are you kidding me ??? i was abused as a child and my dad and step mom got 5 to 15 years in prison i am telling telling you this is happing more and more every day some thing be side prison is going to have to happen and it is going to have to happen soon i was one of the one that was setting out side the court house and holing a sing and i think some thing elce should be done we need to pass another law or some thing how would you like this if it was your child ???? help our kds please they are what we are going to have when we get older i am a mother of 3 i would never let any thing like this happen remember childern are our furtre !!!!!!!!!!!
So was there any sexual abuse or is this man covering for the mother,this whole thing sounds fishy to me. but the system is broken so what do you expect. wait twenty years and see how the crime rate sky rockets, kids today and the last twenty years have been rasied with no morals or empathy its getting worse. and will contiue to get worse as people grow up with no morals and values no disaplin and not know right from wrong. people are to selfish to think of anyone but them selfs, so when a kid dies in a truck or starves to death or is killed,that just shows how selfish people really are. We need to figure out a way to stop the crime before the damage happens, And we never will
now we will have Iraq war veterans, as cops. bummer
When will our legislators get off their butts and strengthen the sentencing guidelines? Of course, if the Governor and Democrats had their way, these criminals probably wouldn't spend any time behind bars, considering their early-release initiatives to save money. That's Democrats, short-sighted and always looking for short-term fixes. Take a poll, Jenny. Ask the citizens of Michigan if they would rather have their tax dollars going to keep prisoners in prison than they would to have their hard-earned money going toward liberal socialist programs. Of course, you're only allowed to poll actual working citizens -- you know, the people whose money you're taking to fund all of your programs.