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Last weekend, a Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood was shocked when a cashier at the Chinese take out restaurant Happy House was shot in the face while another worker who shot in the hand. Neighbors were devastated, telling ABC 7, "That's wrong, [the restaurant] didn't bother anybody. They tried to help people out. I don't know why people would do that to them."
Today, the NY Times has a closer look Happy House's relationship with the neighborhood. An immigrant family from Hong Kong has run the restaurant for many years, and while there are few Chinese families in the neighborhood, these cheap Chinese take out restaurants are "long a staple of poor and working families."
The Happy House Chinese takeout restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant does not feed the rich, or put on airs, and maybe that is why, in the seven years it has fed its busy and occasionally even violent corner of Malcolm X Boulevard, it was never robbed. Maybe the thought simply never occurred to anyone. It would be like holding up one’s own kitchen....The cashier who was shot, 34 year old Aisen Lin, is still in critical condition at Bellevue. As for the two suspects, the shooter left his cellphone at the scene. Police took the cellphone, pretended to offer to sell it back to the owner, and ended up arresting Raymond Williams. Williams, a 21 year old who lives near the restaurant on Malcolm X Boulevard and Lexington, admitted to the shooting and is charged with attempted murder, assault, menacing and harassment. The police are still looking for the other man involved.There are video cameras watching the counter all the time. The monitors are wrapped in clear plastic to keep them clean. Most of the other Chinese restaurants nearby also have thick plexiglass shields between the cashier and the customer, like a gas station or a liquor store, but not Happy House. Longtime customers, presumably the very people who would be the most offended by beefed-up security, tell Ms. Wong they need more.
“They need, like, a partition here with a window,” said a matronly woman who gave only her first name, Lorna. “People are stupid. They always kill the ones that help them.”
To [the owners' 19 year old daughter who works at the restaurant Gigi] Wong, she said, “If that was you they shot, I would have cried.”
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Why is Gothamist always showing crimes by black people? RACIST!!!!
To forget ourselves, and pretend all's well, there is no hell.
Hope Ms. Aisen Lin recovers.
Raymond Williams, burn in hell!
proofread your updates.
"Why is Gothamist always showing crimes by black people? RACIST!!!!"
Another moronic post by "Al Sharpton"
The real Al Sharpton is a civil rights leader and activist. A hero to many (including myself), you discredit his fine name with your foolishly worded posts.
"Hi, I'm 'adamks' and I have nothing better to say than yet another 'proofread your updates' which actually isn't even a sentence." Yawn.
"Proofread your updates" is a sentence. It's expressed in an imperative mood.
The imperative mood expresses commands, direct requests, and prohibitions. In many circumstances, directly using the imperative mood seems blunt or even rude, so it is often used with care.
"The real Al Sharpton is a civil rights leader and activist. A hero to many (including myself)"
Thats a laugh riot.
Did you forget about Freddy's Fashion Mart?
Perhaps you need to find a new hero...
Well Al, it's probably related to the fact that most horrible crimes are committed by black people. We'd be safer with them all in jail.
I also remember Tawana Brawley.
Understand however, that Al Sharpton has been at this for decades. Yes, he has made a few mistakes, but that comes with the territory. Reverend Sharpton (ordained at age 10) stands up for the downtrodden and the oppressed. He is a political/ civil rights activist who founded the National Action Network to increase voter education, services in aiding the poor, confronting racism and violations of civil and human rights.
I affirm my original statement.
He's not my hero, but he has my respect.
Russ, what good have you done for your community lately?
Gothamist doesn't highlight only crimes by black people -- they highlight crimes committed in NY.
Blue collar, white collar, no collar
It's all to be reported.
Girls doing scams for blackmail
it's on Gothamist
Kids shooting a Chinese joint
it's on Gothamist
Wall Street greed
Government corruption
it's all there.
A criminal, thuggish, sociopathich mind has no color.
And commenter Chris, if all black people should be in jail remember of all the things in your daily life that would also go away.
Sharpton uplifts your community? More like keeps you down on the farm.
The man doesn't pay his debts, he puts his kids in private school while opposing vouchers for his own (and others) community, he supports abortion and partial birth abortion so there will be less black babies born, he opposes your right to own a firearm to defend yourself while he has armed guards for himself, and he wants more open immigration, so more hispanics can come in and take jobs from the black community.
Unless you ARE looking for more welfare and higher unemployment, in which case Al is defintely your man.
http://www.kcra.com/news/2653099/detail.html
I do not agree that reporting crimes, if the perpetrators happen to be black, is racist. The focus of the story is not the shooter's racial background but the shock and outrage of this community. The people of Bedford-Stuyvesant condemned this crime, just as they should, and their proper reaction is a great credit to the community.
NOBODY, regardless of race or cultural background, wants to live in a world of senseless violence.
As to the utterly brainless (and downright evil) notion that all black people be put in jail ... the fact of the matter is this: virtually all violent crimes are committed by MEN! So, should we put all men in jail?!? Think about it. This is the same 'logic'. Let's start with you.