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Bouncers at Canal Street bar learn you can't just beat patrons
By adamg on Tue, 07/15/2014 - 12:02pm
The video posted on Barstool Sports.
Officials at the company that owns Hurricane O'Reilly's say they've fired the two bouncers seen on a Web video punching patrons in April - one to the point that he left, according to police, "a large amount of blood" on the ground.
The manager on duty at the time was suspended, then quit of his own accord, the officials told the Boston Licensing Board this morning.
The action came too late to save the bar a two-day license from the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing. The licensing board, a separate agency, decides Thursday whether to mete its own punishment for the April 5 incident, a video of which was posted on Barstool Sports about an hour after it happened.
BPD Det. Thomas Leahy said the beating happened after a group of men muscled themselves to the front of the bar during a Final 4 UConn baseketball game and other patrons objected. Bouncers escorted the pushy guys outside, where, police say, fights broke out.
The Barstool Sports video and additional video taken from the surveillance camera at a neighboring bar showed Hurricane O'Reilly's bouncers going after the men. One bouncer punched one of the men in the face, breaking his nose and causing him to start spurting blood from both his nose and a cut under his right eye. The other bouncer ran after some of the men, punching them as he caught up to them, but not injuring any of them as seriously.
Leahy added police impounded the bouncers' gloves were impounded as evidence.
Sheldon Cohen, operations manager for the Glynn Hospitality Group, said he was at another of his bars that night when somebody called him and told him he better take a look at Barstool Sports. After seeing the video, Cohen rushed to Canal Street. He said he immediately suspended the bouncers and the manager on duty at the time, because bouncers shouldn't be beating people. After an investigation, he said, he dismissed the bouncers; he didn't have to dismiss the manager because he quit on his own.
William Burke, the company's attorney, asked the board that if it decides the incident merits punishment, that the liquor license suspension be set for the same dates as set for the entertainment licenses.
Earlier:
Report: Attack outside hurricane O'Reilly's bar puts man in ICU.
Grand Canal has had issues, too.
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Comments
This is all well and good but...
How about pressing actual assault charges on at least one of the bouncers. At the end of that video the bouncer on the right has at least 3 seconds where no one is around him and he had a clear view of that kid looking the other way and then still sucker punches him in the jaw. If that's not assault I don't know what is
It's not assault
It's battery.
No indivudual charges for the meathead bouncers?
I wish I could put on a shirt that says security and start beating on people once they are on a public way and not face jail time. It's shocking that this street also had an MMA gym just steps from here. Can we rename Canal Street Muttonhead Lane?
How many incidents at Glynn Group establishments involving bouncers are there going to be before someone gets really, really hurt or even killed? About 9:30 the night Sean Collier was killed I watched the bouncers at Coogan's Bluff forcefully throw a guy into a parked car right outside the bar. An ambulance was on its way as I went up Water Street. I'm sure any follow up got lost in the Cantachechen hunt the next day.
Wasn't there an incident at the Grand Canal last year that was bouncer related as well? Boston Licensing Board, please save us from the roided ones of our city.
I think that gym is now a
I think that gym is now a segway tour office, but I think your new name for Canal Street is still appropriate
And now we know why the BPD's
And now we know why the BPD's Licensed Premise Unit does what it does.. The same unit that has attracted the ire of comments on here for some unfathomable reason.
Yeah, I can only imagine what
Yeah, I can only imagine what kind of blood bath this would have been if there had been unlicensed dancing as well.
What did they do here?
What did they do here? Suspended the license for two days outside of the busy garden season? Huge loss I'm sure. If they were anything more than a revenue raising agency these bouncers would have been charged and not just "fired" and free to seek employment in the same position elsewhere. This crap happens all the time and there are no consequences so it's a repeating cycle.
Bouncers beat up patrons, and there is only a punishment if it's caught on tape, but a promotional team hands someone a free beer inside a bar, watch out
Memo to the City:
If your police department is set up such that you need a "Licensed Premise Unit" officer to arrest people for assault on a public street, there there's obviously something seriously wrong here.
And the other poster is obviously confusing the BPD's Licensed Premise Unit with the Boston Licensing Board. Two different bureauracies entirely.
What's the difference?
Between the BPD's Licensed Premise Unit and the Boston Licensing Board? I'm not trying to be snarky, I really don't know.
If the licensed premise unit is the one who refers people to the licensing board for things such as promo beers and fake ID's that can fool cops before calling the underage persons parents, then I stand by my point.
The diff
The BPD licensing division consists of three detectives who conduct inspections of establishments that hold food, entertainment and liquor licenses. If they find violations, they issue citations. Depending on the type of citation, the license holders then have to appear before either the Boston Licensing Board (appointed by the governor) or the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing (appointed by, ta da, the mayor) and explain themselves and why they shouldn't have their licenses suspended for a certain number of days.
Although most of the inspections are surprise "licensed premises inspections," the detectives are considered "agents of the licensing board" and the board does occasionally ask them to investigate specific incidents (although as far as I can recall, this is typically just when the board has heard a restaurant has shut down and not told it, as required).
The licensing board handles liquor and general safety issues (things such as exits bolted shut, bouncers beating up customers, gunfire, etc.), the mayor's office handles violations involving entertainment issues (such as, gasp, patrons dancing in bars not licensed for dancing) and, also, general safety issues. So, yeah, since many places have both kinds of licenses, this means there are often duplicate hearings for the same offense - each board holds its own hearings, which means lawyers, license holders, police and any witnesses have to show up at City Hall twice. Bureaucracy and the lingering effects of early-20th-century anti-Irish prejudice (why the licensing board is appointed by the governor) are truly amazing things.
Now, in addition to all this, patrol supervisors at each BPD district can also write citations, in cases where the licensing detectives aren't around (this was the case with the Hurricane O'Reilly incident). As with citations issued by the full-time licensing detectives, these also result in hearings before one or both boards.
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meeting gone bad?
Awesome!
Must have been a heated discussion about the theory of relativity that started this melee.
Cannot think of a single reason....
For a bouncer to chase a patron down the street. Once you evict them from the establishment your job is done.
This is
like porn for lawyers.
It's because...
bouncers are the biggest group of self important, fake tough guy fucking losers on the planet. Notice how they ALWAYS attack someone smaller than them, usually in a group.
Nice sucker punch, by the way. He must throw a hell of a punch considering it looked as though it inflicted no damage whatsoever.
Reason #1
This is why bars should stay open until 4 am.
Later closing times are
Later closing times are irrelevant here. If you watch the video, it's during the day!! Should bars close at sun down?
Roid rage can strike at any time.