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According to Seattle Police, there were two arrests and a police sergeants received minor injuries when they were kicked during the just before 2 AM fracas in the streets outside the club as multiple fights reportedly broke out among last call crowds.
The SPD report on the incident describes multiple fights in a large crowd bringing out the first call of officers “to try to get the crowd to disperse and not block the roadway.”
“A fast backup was called, and East and West units responded to restore public order,” SPD reports.
#2022-061714/East Precinct/Third Watch:
On 03-12-2022 at 0156, at bar closing time outside the Mint Lounge, multiple fight disturbances broke out among a large crowd. Patrol responded to try to get the crowd to disperse and not block the roadway. A fast backup was called, and East and West units responded to restore public order. Two arrests were made, and one sergeant received minor injuries. One Type 2 Use of Force reported.
The early Saturday callout is part of a string of recent troubles outside the club. Last weekend, police were called to the area after reports of a dispute and threats of gun violence just before 2 AM Sunday. According to police, a victim showed up at the nearby Swedish First Hill with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the hand but left before officers arrived.
That shooting followed another bout of gun violence in the area around Melrose and Pine last month that shattered glass at a nearby restaurant, riddled parked vehicles with bullets, and sent bullets flying into nearby apartments.
As in last weekend’s callout, more officers were already in the area at the time of Saturday’s fights as SPD is maintaining its increased presence only a few blocks away downtown as part of a renewed “hot spot” policing strategy hoped to quiet ongoing waves of violent crime and street disorder in the city.
CHS reported here last year on the transformation of the former Baltic Room into the Mint Lounge under the venue’s new ownership.
The club’s ownership has not responded to CHS’s questions about the recent incidents and this weekend’s police response outside the venue.
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It’s a public nuisance. Shut it down.
Wouldn’t the increase in these instances be a statistical measurement of returning to normal?
The city should threaten to revoke the club’s liquor license if these “incidents” happen again. Somehow all the other nightclubs in the neighborhood manage to operate without near-weekly violence.
Really, it’s not Mint’s fault for the problems in this area. It’s capitalism. No, wait, forget that, it’s the police. Nope, that’s not it either. Landlords! Yes, that’s…dammit, nope. Gentrification? Golf? Macklemore? F’ it, let’s just blame Amazon.
Best response so far in 2022! Got me laughing. And I think you captured all the hot topics! Well, maybe Sawant, City Council and the City Attorney need a shout out. Cheers –
Ha! Well done. You could cut and paste this same response for every crime story on the Hill. Just remember kids: crime and violence is never the fault of the people who commit it :/
This is a weird comment because people who have lived here know that this club has been a violence magnet for like 15 years and never seems to get shut down. I’ve never witnessed anyone ever attempt to blame it on anything but the joint itself. So this is the exact wrong place to make this joke, if that’s the word for it.
And yet! Look at the comments on today’s post on the lawsuit against Vulcan, Walgreens, and Starbucks. Seattle’s gun violence problem is their fault because of…displacement? You can argue that this specific post is the wrong place to drop this comment, but you can’t argue the fact that there are many, MANY people on this site who are quick to blame anything other than the irresponsible actions of those involved in the violence.
will continue unabated as the weather warms.
How’s this club still open.