Detroit Strip Clubs: Lack of quorum stifles strip club discussion
November 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLack of quorum stifles strip club discussion
Associated Press – November 13, 2009 7:24 PM ET
DETROIT (AP) – A city council member’s decision to leave a hearing on Detroit’s strip club ordinance may have pushed a vote on the issue into the new year.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report that about 200 people filled council chambers Friday to hear testimony on proposed changes to the ordinance. But Sheila Cockrel walked out, leaving the council one member shy of a quorum.
The council still needs to have discussion, then schedule a vote. It goes on break Nov. 20 and isn’t scheduled to return until Jan. 5
Council members are considering banning the sale of alcohol and requiring dancers to wear pasties, which are worn over the nipples. A federal judge in 2007 struck down Detroit’s regulations on where strip clubs could open and ordered them rewritten.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip Club Showdown: Cockrel Storms Out
November 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip Club Showdown: Cockrel Storms Out
Updated: Friday, 13 Nov 2009, 7:54 PM ESTPublished : Friday, 13 Nov 2009, 7:45 PM EST
By ROOP RAJmyFOXDetroit.com
DETROIT (myFOXDetroit.com) – Chaos outside as strip club workers argued with a local pastor was matched with the chaos inside. Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel stormed out of the meeting.
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Matters regarding strip clubs in the city of Detroit and an ordinance that would ban alcohol, keep dancers six feet away from customers and require strippers to cover up more.
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There was talk of using security to bring her back into the meeting. FOX 2 learned she left the meeting and went to the Clique Restaurant for a bite to eat. That didn’t happen. Waiters inside tell FOX 2 angry strippers mouthed off to her. She left without eating.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Arturo’s beating suspect also wanted in Cheetah’s shooting
November 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: November 13. 2009 6:17PM
Arturo’s beating suspect also wanted in Cheetah’s shooting
Charlie LeDuff / The Detroit News
Detroit — Eiland Johnson is not only a suspect in the beating death of a man at a Southfield nightclub, but Detroit police want him in connection with a Detroit strip club shooting 10 days earlier.
Johnson, 38, is one of three men accused of the murder of Robert Alexander in Arturo’s on Aug. 9. He was among the subjects in a story in today’s Detroit News.
He was allegedly having trouble in Detroit’s Cheetah’s strip club several days earlier.
According to Sgt. Todd Eby of the Detroit Police Department, Johnson was drinking at Cheetah’s on the Strip on Eight Mile on July 30, when he got into an altercation with a stripper.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit council inaction leaves strip club reform in limbo
November 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit council inaction leaves strip club reform in limbo
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –It appears that the Detroit City Council won’t vote this year on a strip club proposal, which would ban alcohol and require dancers wear opaque pasties, because it didn’t have enough members show up at today’s meeting.
President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. officially ended the meeting about noon after only four members showed: Cockrel, Kwame Kenyatta, JoAnn Watson and Brenda Jones. Five were needed for a quorum.
Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel briefly showed around 10 a.m. but left. She has been a critic of the crackdown. The council had planned to introduce the regulations today so it would have enough time to vote on the changes at its last meeting of the year scheduled for Nov. 20. Now that can’t happen.
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“I am disgusted with passing from east to west and only seeing (the strip clubs) on the Detroit side,” said Belinda Scott, who attends Perfecting Church. “Is this all we can offer our young girls? No, I think we can do better.”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip Club Debate Erupts In Detroit Council
November 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… Two proposed ordinances aiming to regulate Strip Clubs are stirring up some heated debate inside Detroit council chambers.
“Deplorable” and “reprehensible” are the words used by councilman Ken Cockrel in describing his colleague Shiela Cockrel’s decision to walk out of council chambers Friday, preventing the council from voting on two measures to regulate adult entertainment in the city.
“Clearly she has an issue with the ordinance. But if you have a problem with the ordinance, the thing to come to the table and do is try either to push for an amendment, which satisfies your concern, or vote no on it,” Ken Cockrel said.
“That’s what you’re elected to do, and that’s what you are paid to do,” he said.
One of the more controversial sections: a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol at the clubs. In addition, dancers would be required to wear pasties and stay a certain distance from customers.
Council Friday heard from scores of dancers and club owners who oppose the regulations. Dancer Samantha …
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit’s proposed strip club restrictions draw big crowd
November 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit council inaction leaves strip club reform in limbo
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –It appears that the Detroit City Council won’t vote this year on a strip club proposal, which would ban alcohol and require dancers wear opaque pasties, because it didn’t have enough members show up at today’s meeting.
President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. officially ended the meeting about noon after only four members showed: Cockrel, Kwame Kenyatta, JoAnn Watson and Brenda Jones. Five were needed for a quorum.
Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel briefly showed around 10 a.m. but left. She has been a critic of the crackdown. The council had planned to introduce the regulations today so it would have enough time to vote on the changes at its last meeting of the year scheduled for Nov. 20. Now that can’t happen.
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“I am disgusted with passing from east to west and only seeing (the strip clubs) on the Detroit side,” said Belinda Scott, who attends Perfecting Church. “Is this all we can offer our young girls? No, I think we can do better.”
Detroit Strip Clubs: An Army officer’s outrage over Fort Hood
November 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsYet here we have Nidal Hasan, who explicitly “associated with” Anwar al-Aulaqi, a figure that American intelligence suspects of operational involvement in 9/11, who yelled “Allah akbar!“ as he shot more than 50 people and killed 14 of them, and who repeatedly told his colleagues that the US had declared war on his faith and that suicide bombings could be justified. Does the media connect the dots the way they attempted with conservatives who espoused such radical thinking as federalism? No. Instead, we get offered this kind of analysis from Time today:
Hasan was a walking contradiction: the counselor who himself needed counseling; the proud soldier who did not want to fight, at least not against fellow Muslims; the man who could not find a sufficiently modest and pious wife through his mosque’s matchmaking machinery but who frequented the local strip club. A man supposedly so afraid of deployment that he launched a war of his own from which he clearly did not expect to return alive. “Everyone is asking why this happened,” said Hasan’s family in a formal statement, “and the answer is that we simply do not know.” (See pictures of the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings.)
Detroit Strip Clubs: Hassan’s behaviour raised eyebrows
November 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsSome in the group questioned Hassan’s sympathies as an army psychiatrist, whether he would be more aligned with Muslims fighting US troops. And there was some concern about whether he should continue to serve in the military, the official said.
Visits to Texas clubs
The US army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 colleagues at Fort Hood, repeatedly visited a lap dancing club in the days before the massacre.
Major Nidal Malek Hassan was a regular customer at a club close to the Texas military base and on one occasion spent six hours there watching women pole dancing. His behaviour in the lead-up to the shooting spree was similar to that of some of the September 11 hijackers. Mohammad Atta, the group leader, and four accomplices spent time in a strip bar in Las Vegas, while others frequented one in Florida.
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