If they don't have access to another kind of shelter, a hotel or motel will put them up for a night. The WTO conference changes the equation, adding the evil ways of capitalism into the mix. And she says she's got the memo to prove it. You've heard the story before. A Seattle nightclub plays hiphop and rap music.
Black youths show up to check it out.
Soon the cops show up, too, and they start writing incident reports on everything from littering to noise complaints. After a while, the police have built a file of complaints on the place, and the club is forced to close. This, according to club owner Valerie Nakamura's lawsuit, is exactly what happened to her club. The suit, filed by local civil-rights super hero David Osgood, alleges that Neko's Restaurant and Nightclub went out of business because the police targeted the place. After police filed a series of complaints about Neko's, the club was told in September of 1996 that it could not offer live music dancing.