Sugar's "Sin Sunday" Gets Violent

From the PI this morning: "Three shot inside Capitol Hill club." Apparently, a fight broke out on Sugar's dance floor around 1:30am; three people were injured, and police aren't saying much more than that. Someone was firing a gun inside the club, so this isn't one of those ambiguous cases of violence within fifty feet of the club doors. The night's event was Sin Sunday, an 18/21+ weekly event featuring a DJ spinning hip-hop and R&B mash-ups.

Seattlest does love hip-hop and R&B mash-ups, but we do not enjoy random eruptions of violence. What the hell was a gun doing inside Sugar anyway, so soon after the Mayor's Office busted several clubs (including Sugar!) on liquor (and in some cases, gun) violations? Yes, the bust was a publicity stunt, but that doesn't mean the allegations weren't serious. It certainly doesn't mean that clubs are allowed to relax, now that the proposal for the nightclub license has been shelved for a year. To the contrary, this kind of scary, crowd-crazy violence is even more unacceptable during the interim when the City Council is watching to see how the current nightclub laws handle incidents of violence in lieu of a special license. Seattlest isn't sure how exactly this all went down, but we cannot think of a single excuse for the wounds incurred last night, and we are relieved that we never felt compelled to hang out at Sugar in the first place.