Crosby hate crime/murder update

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• The real Wolf Pack here r the Chase family. This bunch took millions of taxpayer dollars in the 1980's to "transform" the downtown into a "family friendly" Latino environment. Instead they used the money to buy up property and swindle their Mexican biz partners outta cash. Once the gov agreement ran out, bam! Back to bringing in the drunks and displacing an entire population they had already cashed in on.

  Read Mr Chase's interviews. He says repeatedly that as a majority holder in DTSA he can do whatever he wants w downtown. Well, Ryan you now have blood on your hands. You changed this once safe community into a nightly bar brawl. Anyone living in DTSA can hear the fights breaking as soon as the bars close. You can practically set your watch by them.

  Those $400,000 from "Clean & Safe" should be taken away fron DTI & given back to largely Mexican merchants who pay into it. I'm sure they would provide more daytime programming & healthier cultural options for our youth than hitting the clubs.

  Grow some balls City of Santa Ana. DTI is in breech of contract. They keep our community Dirty & Unsafe...covered in puke & brimming with drunks. How many more people have to die for you to see that the whole DTI farce was an epic fail?

  • I don"t believe the Chase family has anything to do with the
    Crosby Property
    or Chapter One property.
    Or Proof property.
    Broadway between 5th and 2nd. This is the Epicenter of the Latino - Asian Drama on weekend nights. The Chases can not be used as everybody's scapegoat.
    However, they are "family" friends with the new owner of the Santora (home of proof bar).
    Let's see what the Santora turns into. ?

    • The Chases run Downtown Inc., which runs Clean and Safe, which is responsible for the downtown "security." They are also the ones who get the reports from the clean and safe patrols, which many claim are not reported to police.

      The Downtown Inc. marketing machine promotes the bars that get patrons crazy drunk, so they fight every weekend. $400,000 to create a problem $5,000 to address it.

      Also, the suspect is 20. What's a 20-year old doing drinking at The Crosby?

      • Well, i will say this about "Clean and Safe".
        When in the hell was the last time somebody took a power washer to the sidewalk strip of Broadway between 3rd and 2nd st.
        Who'se responsibility is that?
        Downtown Inc. or The City of Santa Ana?
        It is looking very very disgusting.

        • Bitch, bitch, bitch. That area is filthy because of PEOPLE! Call the city.

      • WRONG! You disgruntled former employee.

  • WRONG AGAIN! Why are you so stupid?

• Reward offered: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2014/01/kim_pham_santa_ana.php

• Why hasn't the city council of Santa Ana come out and offered a reward or condemned this murder? Goes to speak volumes of the latinos who supposedly run the city council. They are only contributing to the problem by looking the other way and saying nothing.

  • They aren't looking the other way. However if you are unconvinced, you can go give them a piece of your mind at their council meeting tonight. Tuesday 5:45 p.m.

• If anyone is looking to do away with a bunch of misinformed idiots that are so damn jealous they have lost the fight against Downtown...blow up this blog. Done. We won! The blood will wash off the hands. At least their hands are helping to find the criminals.

  • Oh yes. We're blowing up. We've had 40,000 views in the past 3 days.

  • Anonymous DTI employee, the blood WILL NOT wash off your hands.

    • my hands are clean, your's are stained. This year in Downtown is going to be EPIC. Hey, how is that Sam Romero loser doing these days? Did he finish packing up all his stupid cross crap? Tell him no one says, 'hi.'

• Hey Editor, appreciate you calling it as it is.

  • Thank you!

• my .2 cents...sure nobody cares, and I'm sure I will get A TON of backlash for even writing this.

  I was at The Crosby that night, sitting by the window as I am an avid people watcher. I am also a regular at The Crosby since they opened about 6 years ago. I have done my due diligence and reported what I saw to police and to lawyers. (this is just my view of things) I whiteness a group of girls accidentally bump into a group Kim Pham was in while taking a photo. Kim then started to go after the girls (yell and charge forward). One girl turned around and yelled back. A couple other people went up to the girls and started yelling. I didn't see who threw the first punch, but then I saw a melee of people fighting. My question...why did

  I am 80% sure this wasn't the first time, for those invalided, visiting The Crosby. Every once in a while there are those who get a little to rowdy and getting kicked out of the DTSA establishments. Im sure those involved did have liquid courage in them, or maybe they were just provoked and turned into the hulk. In any case, nobody will every know why the fight began.

  This is just one unfortunate event that happened in DTSA. This was not a racial issue of Hispanics vs Asians. If that was the case then why aren't there more blog posts about African Americans being bullied in HB; bars in HB are known as White Supremacist bars. Or what about the shooting 2 years ago in the DTF soho parking structure, this was a Caucasian guy who shot a hispanic guy. Does that mean Hispanics shouldn't go to DTF?