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Kells warned to call police immediately the next time a patron attacks a bartender
By adamg on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:50pm
The Boston Licensing Board took no punitive action against the Kells for three recent incidents, including the murder of a patron on the street outside the Brighton Avenue bar.
In its decision on three Kells-related matters, the board did issue a warning for an incident in which an allegedly irate woman attacked a bartender as she was being escorted out - including throwing a stool at him - and then returned with her husband to threaten to shoot the place up. At a hearing last week, board Chairman Daniel Pokaski admonished club employees and managers for not calling police the instant the woman began taking physical action against the bartender, rather than waiting until after she returned to make her threat.
The board "filed" a complaint related to the Nov. 8 murder of Gregory Phillips of West Roxbury at Brighton and Harvard Avenues, which in practical terms means little unless the club is brought back before the board for additional violations. At last week's hearing, a club attorney acknowledged Phillips as in the Kells before he died but that his attacker went after him outside the club and that there had been no trouble that night inside the bar.
At that hearing, attorney Carolyn Conway attributed an uptick in violence to rap concerts at unspecified nearby locations in Allston.
The board also "filed" a complaint about a September incident involving two groups of men who had been at the bar getting into a fight at Harvard and Brighton avenues over a a woman.
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Comments
Wow...
The board really threw the book at them! Patron's death outside of your club = slap on the wrist. Makes me sick.
He was at least 300 feet away
He was at least 300 feet away from the bar down the road. The assailant wasn't in the bar, there was no trouble in the bar that night.
Am I missing something?
I understand the other issues; but not this one. Would the MBTA get cited for someone getting mugged late night at a T stop? The city for someone along the harbor walk?
It be one thing if both patrons were in the bar, or if the bar is becoming a hot bed of conflicts. But unfortunately, the link to the Kells with this murder is coincidental at best with the info currently available.
Now if the kells has been actively courting and harboring gang members while looking the other way...
300 feet?
So Tedeschis is a football field away from the Kells front door? Might want to re-measure that. The point is, any patron of a nightclub is the responsibility of said nightclub till they return home. Also, any area outside of the club is their responsibility as well. The club showed negligent judgment and a young man died. To have zero consequences as a result is ridiculous and sad.
Rick, You tell me... [They're
Rick, You tell me...
[They're neighbors but the entrance of the Kells is ~300 feet from Tedeschis, maybe more like 250, but still.]
And no, they're not responsible till that person gets home. They are responsible if they over serve him alcohol. But being a patron isn't enough.
Oh, and a football field isn't 300 feet.
The length of a football
The length of a football field not counting endzones is 100 yards/300 feet. The Kells exit is approximately 15 feet from where the murder took place. The front door is probably 50 feet away. Regardless, the point is, that if a patron has been served any alcohol in your establishment, they are your responsibility from then on. If the young man who was stabbed had been in a serious automobile accident that night on the way home, the Kells, or any other bar he was served in, would be liable. That's the law.
it is called discretion, im
it is called discretion, im sure there are plenty of people who could have interacted in this situation and it may have turned out differently. The point is that no one did and now a young man is dead and his daughter is left with out a father. Stop blaming people, its time to find solutions, act.
The story doesn't tell you...
...that if the cops are called to a bar, it automatically gets written up for a violation, no matter who's at fault. That's why the management of the Kells didn't call the cops on the unruly patron.
Yeah, that came up ...
At a hearing on a downtown bar where two pre-21 BU students of the female ilk allegedly got served drinks, board Chairman Daniel Pokaski said bars sometimes call nearby college police rather than BPD because there's less of a chance the college cops will remember to file a complaint.
During the hearing on the Kells stool incident, board member Suzanne Ianella seemed really surprised at this rule, which is surprising since it's not like she just got on the board a couple of months ago. She even asked what would happen if she walked into the Ritz with a lit bomb, would the Ritz get written up? Yes, her fellow board members advised her.