Capo's in Pittsburgh's South Side ordered to close after consent agreement violation
Natalie Kim is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University who has spent the last 3 years reporting on local government issues. Before joining Pittsburgh Current, she wrote for the Carnegie Mellon student newspaper, where she covered campus politics and community relations.
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Capo's, a bar in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood, is now padlocked and temporarily closed by order of the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office, which says it violated a consent agreement to prevent any further problems at the establishment.The closing comes after another incident over the weekend, when a man was stabbed in the chest inside the bar just before midnight Friday.The bar was shut down for the weekend, but now faces an indefinite closure."I'm very grateful that the district attorney took these steps. It's a shame that what happens here over the years, somebody has to get really hurt before it happens. There is a better way to do this, to hold bars accountable to change their behavior," said Donald Berman, president and co-founder of the South Side Community Action Network.Berman says this is just one step closer to shutting down what he and others call a problem bar in the South Side.On Monday morning, the DA's office filed for a preliminary injunction pending a