Thursday, March 25, 2021

Mayor Defends M-Bar

 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba defended the M-Bar at a Monday press conference. Three homicides have been linked to the Ridgewood Court nightclub.

Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote said the city should shut down the bar.  A man was killed and three other victims were shot at the bar on July 3.  A woman free on bond for murder chased down another woman from the bar and allegedly killed her on I-220 in January.  Another man was shot to death early Sunday morning as he hid behind a car while a shootout took place in the parking lot. 

Reporters asked him about Mr. Foote's comments at a Monday press conference at Livingston Park. He said the bar is a legitimate business that deserves to stay open.  The Mayor said the city will work with the bar to develop a better security plan. He said the nightclub spends $20,000 per month on security.   He called the Ward 1 Councilman's statements "reductive analysis" and said Mr. Foote used "poor judgment."

Kingfish note: The Mayor said the "perimeter" didn't include adjacent parking lots and that disputes "spilled over" into those areas.   Hmmm.... is that a nuisance?   How many murders need to take place at the Murder-Bar before the Mayor will consider shutting it down? 5? 8? 10?

As usual, the Mayor and his merry band of PhD's have a plan.  They are experts at planning and experts at doing nothing.   What is laughable is the Mayor's attempt to compare the Murder-Bar's record of homicides to gatherings during the pandemic.  Want to know why Jackson has a crime problem? Just watch this press conference.  Maybe Mr. Stokes was right. 

The Murder-Bar should be shut down.  Period.    

 

75 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Maybe Mr. Stokes was right." Of course he's right and just maybe other comments of payoffs are also right.

"How many murders need to take place at the Murder-Bar before the Mayor will consider shutting it down? 5? 8? 10?" Just leave it open and a significant body count increase is bound to happen.

Anonymous said...

What is the mayor's relationship with dope boys? I tossed the question off as the usual Stokes hyperbole and bombastic banter but this isn't a good look for a mayor.

Anonymous said...

By the mayors comments you would think he was some how associated with the bar some how

Anonymous said...

This dumbass just said, "the owners spend 6 figures in security every month".

Is he capable of telling the truth about anything?

Anonymous said...

how cud ANYBODY not understand that the mayor is being paid cash(impossible to prove) to let these miscreants stay open and have their way?? Can all yall REALLY be that NAIVE(stupid for u idiots)!!!

Anonymous said...

Yawn.

Kingfish said...

When Tonari Moore was arrested in Madison County, the Mayor showed up at his bail hearing and not as his lawyer as his was already Mayor. That's not gossip, it's confirmed.

Anonymous said...

This is yet another reason that all that can are leaving Jackson. And $20k a month for security? Provide the invoice and cleared checks. Otherwise, BS.

Anonymous said...

So no help for Twin Peaks or Outback Steakhouse or BB&B or any of the other businesses that have closed in the city recently. No way. But the Mayor himself is going to purpose the resources of a city that cannot even fix its water system on an effort to keep a rinky-dink thug bar open.

Next time the pipes break, ask how much of the city's budget has gone to keeping the Murder-Bar open rather than water/sewer repairs.

Anonymous said...

Just like Frank Melton was tied to the drug gangs & citizens did not know until talk on the streets and citizens told it we will find out the truth!

Anonymous said...

Lumumba is a walking, talking reduction. GFY Antar.

Anonymous said...

Plan for the M-Bar but can't produce barely a napkin sketch of a plan for the City Council? That make sense.

Anonymous said...

I guess I’m still not understanding why the business is being held liable for these? Pretty sure it has been Republicans who introduced laws that protect the business from liability in such cases. Maybe the gun store who sold the gun should be shut down? Or maybe the alcohol manufacturer who provided the inebriation should be shut down? It seems that the sheriffs office has as much or more liability in this than the business does, maybe we should defund the police? If any business should be shut down for nurses at their establishment, it’s got to be the Kroger of 55 frontage road. I remember Kingfish covering that thoroughly, but don’t remember him advocating Kroger be shut down. What’s the difference other than the obvious?

Anonymous said...

If kingfish gets his way, every business in town will be required to have armed swat teams securing the perimeter and conducting strip searched at the entrance.

Anonymous said...

the thugs will just go somewhere else. the mayor needs to address the culture of crime-which he is incapable of doing and unwilling to even try.

stokes for mayor. for all his antics, he does care about the people. we are already doing worse than he would be.

Anonymous said...

Got damn I hate this city, but cannot leave. What a phucking fool. Criticizing Foote and defending more of these people RUINING Ward 1 and the city.

Anonymous said...

Does this fool really think people are going to believe this bar spends almost a quarter of a million dollars on security every year? Idiot

Anonymous said...

The mayor is only being realistic. Murder and mayhem is part of the Jackson landscape. He can't stop it and he knows it. Closing all the businesses where the stuff takes place would mean shutting down the city. At least most of it. Really.

Anonymous said...

That's not what was said, Kingfish. I'm sorry your gay bar closed.

Anonymous said...

How many folks get shot at Shucker's every year? Heck, how many murders can be traced back to any particular establishment in Jackson?

This is nuts. It sounds like his security detail is well overpaid. I think Ashby Foote should just play the movie "Road House" in the lobby during the next Council meeting.

Anonymous said...

KF, can sales tax collection records for individual businesses be subject to public records? That'd be interesting.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish is a queen.

She needs to ease out the closet and live her life....quit the roids and start doing drag....in public.

Then she will relax and quit the gun rampage fetish.

Anonymous said...

Now wait and watch retail continue to leave County Line Road. Jackson must not need retail sales tax revenues

Anonymous said...

$240,000 annually for security? Bullshit. No way. The mayor is friends with or protecting the owner. This is some kind of front. No one gets away with stuff like this and keeps plugging away at it. Does the ABC have to have a copy of the liquor liability policy to have a permit? There's no way they can keep insurance with things like this happening, or the thugs families aren't suing.

Anonymous said...

The MotherF***King lying Mayor is at it again. Or else, he just decides to make up numbers that sound good and spout them off whenever there is a microphone for him to spew into.

According to Mayor Chowke, the M-Bar spend "SIX FIGURES A MONTH" for security. He said it twice,so he must have really beleived this.

Just like he used to say that Jackson's infrasturcture issues were a $1 billion problem, then only a few weeks later, it was a $2 billion issue - he makes up numbers like my kid makes up bedtime excuses - no basis but hopefully somebody will bite and believe.

Six figures a month for security. The lowest 'six figure' number one can have (without a decimal point, and maybe that will be his 'answer' should anybody call him on this lie) is $100,000. If M-Bar had security 24/7/365 that would mean they were paying $135 per hour for security. Every hour. Every day. Damn off duty sheriff deputies must be doing well hanging around there.

Or else - the lying MFer did it again. I think I'll take the second answer, Alex, for the win.

Anonymous said...

Mayors dope boys must hangout at that club.

Anonymous said...

1:24, the discussion is about Murder Bar and the continuing, accelerating decline of Jackson (even the “good” areas). Sounds like you are on the City’s teat or the Mayor’s tip, but that does little to defend the Mayor’s foolishness in protecting a nuisance over greater good for the city.
No, this is not KF posting.

Anonymous said...

It's a nightclub and it's in Jackson. That means it's a hazard zone. It's not a church. This stuff can happen at ANY business in Jackson. If the owners are taking reasonable precautions, which they appear to be doing, that's all you can ask...unless you intend to close ALL nightclubs in Jackson. Then the thugs would just shoot each other somewhere else. Require security checks and police monitoring but closing another Jackson business?

Anonymous said...

Clubs in west Jackson in the 60s and 70s like big Mike’s....there were lots of such places owned by snook Warren.....and others

Lots of fights and cuts and bruises....but not so much gun fire.

Bar scenes are bar scenes but today the winner wins by murder.

It’s all a bit much.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know said...

Who owns the M Bar? I looked on the Secretary of State’s website under M Bar and the entities that come up do not appear to be the bar. Must be owned by an entity with a different name.

In reply to 1:57 p.m. I said...

I grew up in Northeast Jackson. For DECADES, no one was EVER shot or killed at hmmmmm....let's see......The 1001, Tiko's, New Orleans Café, Poets, Skidmarks, The Quarter Note, Joker's Tavern, George Street Grocery, Hal and Mals, Martins or after midnight til sun up at The Subway Lounge in the very bowels of the "Bold New City". The question that needs to be asked is "What has changed and why would the Mayor defend the M Bar?" Perhaps Kennuf was right when he shed light on "Da Mayuh's Dope Boys"? Well let's hear more from Kennuf. C'mon Kennuf. Tell it.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Mayor - you win, I leave. Lived in Jackson since 1997 and I am out.

Anonymous said...

Six figures on security? That will be a MINIMUM of 1.2 million a year. For you politicians or math challenged count the first digit and each zero, ignore the decimal point, that is the number of "figures", 20,000 is only five--please don't count the comma. The importance of "commas" is not of any importance in math, just syntax and meaning. For example: Panda bear eats shoots and leaves versus Panda bear eats, shoots, and leaves. (but only at the 3m bar) For practice, how many figures in one trillion, current US debt is over 28 trillion. Divide that number by the number of tax paying citizens and see how much YOU owe. I doubt if your calculator has that many figures available, so you should use scientific notation. Inquire and I will explain.

Anonymous said...

@1:27 PM - True, Bed, Bath, & Beyond just announced that they are closing. Yes, corporate is closing a few stores around the country, but this one is a good choice to close. They didn't have water for their bathrooms for 3+ weeks and had to rent porta-potties for employees that were placed out back.

In a year or two the south side of E. County Line Road will be abandoned. It will look like W. Jackson.

Anonymous said...

If you watch WLBT/WJTV the next of kin would hire one of those "we don't win unless you win, size matters, one call law that's all firms and sue the Murder Bar. You'd win in a heart beat even with those oaf firms. That's what was done to Kroger when the city couldn't control crime.

Anonymous said...

Why do people keep going there???

Anonymous said...

What authority would the city, or any government, have to seize private property for crimes committed by 3rd parties on the business property?

Anonymous said...

The M-Bar must be a cash cow ( or drug money laundering business) to
be able to pay 20k per month for security?

Or that's the bogus made up cost the owner(s) used to get
some free PPP money

Anonymous said...

This is OUR bar.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many citizens of Jackson (other than Mommas of the dead folks) actually care when a Jackson resident of visitor to the city is killed. The mayor talks the good talk (a blue ribbon committee to study if folks were actually killed and what gun dealer could be blamed). Sadly, although he talks the talk, he never walks the walk.

I am certain JPD will catch the persons who committed this last killing. Their arrest rate is actually pretty good. Sadly, those responsible will be let out of jail, and like the 220 murder, will kill again while out on bail.

Our nation and especially Jackson is going to hell. Maybe certain areas and folks (Patrons of M Club) are already there. As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord and stay away from Bars, where little of any good happens at night. I could have said my family will Boycott M Club, and we will, since it is a place of booze, drugs and death.

Anonymous said...

MBar is Metropolitan Bar and Grille owned by Richard Bradley who is among other things assistant coach of JSU women’s basketball team.

All on SOS webpage and his personal linked in page

Anonymous said...

The FBI needs to begin an investigation for municipal corruption against Lumumba, and the limp-wristed ABC should yank the bar's liquor license.

Anonymous said...

I tried to research 'reductive analysis' and could not come up with a damned thing that makes sense in the present context.

Anonymous said...

KF, questions that need to be answered:
1) Who owns M-Bar?
2) Who owns the website (thembarjxn.com)? DNS records are in scrubbed

Anonymous said...

Would someone explain to me what is "reductive analysis", please

Through A Prism, Slanted said...

The Dope Boyz will insure either Chokwe's survival or his demise. He gets to choose. You get to guess. Same was true with Frank.

Any comment the mayor makes is parenthetical delusion.

Anonymous said...

20K per month in security but eight dudes can just slide right in through the back door...............

Anonymous said...




the Mayor aid MBar pays a six figure monthly for security, that is $3,333. a day for security in a 30 day month. He cannot tell the truth on this, water crisis, or state payments on water bills, he just lies

Anonymous said...

The legal entity is called "Metropolitian Bar & Grille LLC." The misspelling is intentional. The entity was formed in 2013 with the correct spelling but then amended a month later to include the misspelled version of "Metropolitian." The owner is Richard Bradley. He's also an assistant coach of some sort at JSU and owns several other failed businesses.

JT said...

Well I have no skin in the game (Thank God) but it does sound so damn amusing. The Ok Corral gets called out and Chokwe (aka Wyatt Burp) rides in to claim all is well. Holy Crap, their spending 20k a month for security? That’s $666 dollars and 66 cents a day. Talk about the mark of the beast. And where exactly are they getting these sheriffs deputies? Mayberry? Seems to me the owner could fire all those expensive cops and hire some of the shooters in bar and be protected better. I think the good mayors plan would be to just post a sign out front stating (Firearm Required Before Entry). That way everyone knows they may have a cap popped on them at anytime if they disrespect one another. If someone doesn’t have a piece they can have one issued at the door. Mutual Assured Destruction. I’m waiting for the movie.

Anonymous said...

Defend, deny, defer...

Anonymous said...

I don't care how many people in Jackson kill each other, & neither does the mayor

Anonymous said...

I think this mayor plays fast and loose with the facts. That little club is not paying "six figures" or $20,000. per month on security. Not unless they are selling something other than food and drinks. Antar clearly feels he is not accountable to anyone in Jackson for accuracy. His interests are probably elsewhere and they do not need him to be factual. If only Jackson had a viable alternative to this character.

My Pillows on SALE! said...

Well, looks like a neighboring business, Bed Bath & Beyond comprehension why you would set foot in this store in a totally corrupt and lawless City, is closing it's doors for good. I'd say that's a pretty good start on "Freeing the Land" in Northeast Jackson. Calling the Queen of Metrocenter...where are you?? Where is the Mayors "Credible Messenger"? Anybody seen or heard from him/her?

Anonymous said...

Stokes is not as stupid as he appears to be.

From his start decades ago, his MOA has always been to speak to the press in a manner that his low information base can understand.

He's 97 percent theatrical.

However, Kenny would have never mentioned "dope boys" unless there was some truth.

Little Lord Chowkey-Fauntleroy's defense of the murder club seems to validate Stokes' allegations.

Anonymous said...

Will the last business to close in Jackson please turn off the lights, but you can leave the expended brass on the ground.

Anonymous said...

Congrats Kingfish, WLBT posted a story about how you forced the mayor to correct a lie he told about state agencies not paying a water bill:

https://www.wlbt.com/2021/03/25/when-i-mess-up-i-fess-up-jackson-mayor-sends-correction-new-york-times/

Anonymous said...

Jackson's population is down almost 20,000 people SINCE THE 2010 CENSUS. 154,340 and where we were in 1970. I live here. I want to leave too. I can't. Thanks for ruining a city.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/jackson-ms-population

Anonymous said...

Maybe Baby Chock is one of Barry Obama’s minions. Keep your eyes open, Jackson.

Anonymous said...

"reductive analysis" Huh?

I, too, looked for a definition of "reductive analysis" and found nothing related to the context of the Mayor's remarks. Possibly he intended to say "deductive analysis?"

Anonymous said...

For those who asked: reductive analysis - a seven-cylinder term used to create an impression of intellectual credibility, while actually saying nothing, frequently employed to intimidate into submission those of lesser education.

Kingfish said...

He was trying to make himself sound smart, just as he says "right" after every statement.

Anonymous said...

Is it 'I know right' or 'I know, right?'

I wanta sound smart right.

Anonymous said...

Follow the Money

Anonymous said...

Ok, “reductive analysis” is pretty simple, literally. It is presenting a problem/solution in the most simple way possible due to the inability to apply slightly complex or detailed examination to the subject matter.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish, he was not “trying to make himself sound smart.” It’s an attempt to reject cognitive dissonance. By forcing the listener to "agree" with the statement immediately preceding, he feels the listener is less likely to raise an objection later.

Anonymous said...

I think if I were to start a drinking game with my buddies around how many times this Mayor says the word "right?" within a 30-minute press conference we would all be too drunk to drive home.

Anonymous said...

3:28 - it’s ensure not insure.

Anonymous said...

My reductive analysis is that Bed, Bath & Beyond, which is near M Bar announced they are closing and taking their sales tax revenue with them.

Anonymous said...

Why would a mayor be this interested in a bar? So much so, that he held a press conference regarding attempts to keep it open? Shouldn't he be working on more pressing issues?

With each passing day, this dude is proving why he will go down as the worst mayor in the history of the city. Just depressing.

Anonymous said...

If the Mayor is so concerned, why has the Hinds County Sheriff's Department been the lead LEA on all things M-Bar ?

This place is within the city of Jackson.

Why has JPD never been involved with this joint ?





Anonymous said...

20k a month? Okay. It's a lie or a laundering effort.

Let's see the beneficiaries of such contracts.

Anonymous said...

And what sucks is he will be re-elected in a landslide.

Anonymous said...

@ 6:55 No one wants to helm the Titanic after it hits the iceberg.

Unknown said...

I had to close my bar couldn’t make a living our mayor kept us closed but this M bar was not closed while all others were, also I was told that our mayor is part owner of the M bar also using police officers as security I saw a video of a officer standing at the door in uniform as security and our mayor walking in , so who was paying for they’re security ? He allowed this bar to operate while he had all others closed I also understand there’s gambling machines in the bar and gaming people also look the other way his licence should have been pulled and large fine and jail time for illegal gambling machines


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