Close Liquor Stores in Park Heights

Interview with Derrick Compton, lead organizer of effort to close liquor stores on Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore City.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Baltimore
• Park
• Heights
• Liquor
• Stores
• grassroots
• outreach

[nd4spd420]

boooooooooo!!!!!!

I love America

I have the right to party.

[gmacalypse]

Hotep brother D im from the Heights myself im here now on the heights and its off the hook up here im 30 years old now and i use to get drinks from the mom's and pop's Korean LIQUOR stores at the age of 13 and 14 and thats real fuckin talk so to all that say that the Koreans care for blacks they won't sold me newports bags to bag up dope coke and oh i can go on some deal drugs and guns and don't forget about them arabs white surpremacy people and tommy sell our hood bullshit and they still here

[padude64]

why dont you shut the fuck up crackhead!

[cvp1969]

why don't you just stop swallowing the liqour you get from the bottle that you opened?

[padude64]

CLOSE ALL LIQUOR stores! My sister is dying and i am dying!

Liquor is more available than drugs! The arrogant fuckers in local GOVERNMENT BENEFIT FROM LIQUOR STORES ANDF WE ARE SICK OF IT!

[Nayla1Boz]

I grew up PH & Spalding and me and my girls copped our first drink (at 16) from the one closest to Slater's. As a result I'm under 30 and a recovering alchy...so brother Derrick keep doing what you do so that we as a city can come together and make it a better place to raise our future leaders.

[AngryHalfKorean]

Also, you want to get permission from the men in the picture.I don't think they would want to be in your liquor/lottery/cigarette commercial. I should know cause one of them is my uncle.

[AngryHalfKorean]

I've seen it 1st hand at the clubs, bars, adult establishments. Don't try to make it seem that its the Korean business owners fault its like that cause it isn't. Everybody has there own mind. Your going after the wrong people in the chain anyway. You should be going after licensing & zoning. They say yes or no to the liquor license & if a bulding can be a liquor store or not. Not the Koreans that own the business.So,all the pics u got on here isn't anything but an advertisement.

[AngryHalfKorean]

I used to live in the Parkheights area for many years. After a hard days work, I was very happy to find a liquor store open nearly at at given time. So what if they're open 7days a week 20hrs a day. That's the type of business they are in. They are pleasing their customers by being open those hrs & days. I'm all for educating the community. Many times, the underaged in the communities are so educated, they know where to get the fake ID's saying that they are of legal age & use it.

[AngryHalfKorean]

Your talking about the wrong people in the chain. Its not the Korean business owners you should be going after. They just want to make money & live comfortably just like everyone else. There's nothing wrong with that. You should be going after licensing & zoning. They make the decision if its ok or not to put these liquor stores where they're at, not the business owners. They might want it in a certain place but it all still has to be approved by someone in the city & its not the mayor.