By Diane Bukowski
The Michigan Citizen
Plan B Nightclub, already infamous for the killing of a young father and the near-fatal beating of another man by its bouncers this year, has now gained additional notoriety for the alleged beating and robbery of 22-year-old Chicago-based rapper Yung Berg (Christian Ward) Aug. 22.
Meanwhile, attorney Jerome Goldberg has filed suit on behalf of this year’s first victim, Perry Deshawn Freeman, also 22. He was killed, shot in the back by club bouncers Alwalie Barber and/or Steven Ray Gaston, in February. The suit follows a $15 million lawsuit filed on behalf of Victor Smith, who sustained possibly permanent brain damage at the club in April.
Regarding the recent incident, Detroit rapper TrickTrick (Christian Mathis) described Yung Berg’s beating in published remarks, claiming, “I saved that n—-’s life.” Other insiders, however, claim that the incident was a set-up by Trick Trick, who claims to have “ties” to Plan B.
In an audiotaped interview with rapper Infamous published on YouTube, Trick Trick gave his version of the incident.
“I saw a fight breaking out, I went there and broke it up and I found out later that that was him on the ground that they was working on,” Trick Trick said. “I’m like saying whoa, put him out, put him out, because I’ve got ties to the club where it happened at. No fighting, leave him alone. I didn’t even know that was him. They’re like, ‘that’s him, that’s him.’ I never touched that boy, but the bottom line is when you come to Detroit, you gotta have respect.”
Yung Berg canceled his contract for a performance Aug. 23 at the Summer Jamz festival at the State Fair sponsored by Radio One Station 102.7 after the beating. His booking agent, Mark Siegel, had not returned a call for comment before press time.
According to various blogs, the attackers were either part of Trick Trick’s entourage or bouncers, or both. Some blogs alleged that Trick Trick is now part-owner of the club, although state documents still show Peter Arabo as President, Vice-President, and Secretary of Plan B Nightclub, Inc. Other blogs alleged that Arabo and Trick Trick have mob and police ties.
Most blogs portray the incident as a conflict between Detroit and Chicago rappers. Yung Berg allegedly has said he is not attracted to dark-skinned women, and Trick Trick claimed in a taped interview with DJ Big Greg on 102.7 that Yung Berg said “F—- Detroit.”
Another guest on the show, Hitman, said that during Yung Berg’s beating at Plan B young women patrons were crying.
Big Greg and Trick Trick laughed together about the robbery of Yung Berg’s signature chain, said to be valued at $70,000, although Big Greg’s own station had invited Yung Berg to Detroit to perform. Trick Trick said that he was at the bar with Yung Berg’s bodyguard when the incident took place, again laughing.
Asked for comment, Bo Money of 102.7 said, “We fly artists in for the day. Yung Berg had no business going out to a club the night before when he was here for a station event that we paid for. I saw him the next day, and he had bruises on his face. But he’s a guy that is 5′6″ and 150 lbs. and my little sister could have beaten him to death. He’s still on the road performing.”
Kathy Stonehouse, 102.7’s marketing director, said however that the station does not condone beatings or robberies of any sort, and is not affiliated with Plan B.
“Big Greg is not a journalist of any sort; he is an on-air personality,” Stonehouse said.
“He laughs a lot on any topic; he’s an easy-going, light-hearted kind of guy. He asked Trick Trick straight up if he had anything to do with the beating, and didn’t really get a straight answer.”
During the interview, Trick Trick also claimed, “Plan B - we all have no problems with Plan B. Everybody has family fun, it’s a family atmosphere. That’s why all the artists come there. Everybody can come to our house because they know it’s a good space.”
According to the lawsuit filed by attorney Goldberg on behalf of Lasha Monique Hall, mother of Freeman’s now one-year-old son, Pierre, Plan B is anything but “a good space.” Her fiancé was killed there after being expelled for dancing on a table.
Goldberg filed the lawsuit Aug. 15 in Wayne County Circuit Court against Plan B Nightclub, Inc. and Barber and Gaston, who fired their guns at Freeman as he ran from them behind the club. A bullet pierced him in the left back and tore through his lungs and heart.
Police records showed the bouncer’s weapons were loaded with lethal hollow-point bullets. While police claimed Freeman shot at a bouncer, the records showed that only the two bouncers’ guns had been fired. They did not show any gunshot residue tests of Freeman’s hands or fingerprint testing of the gun police said Freeman possessed.
“Upon information and belief,” says the lawsuit, “Defendant Plan B Nightclub, Inc. has had numerous incidents of violence perpetrated by its bouncers against customers.”
The lawsuit demands monetary damages and a jury trial.
Freeman’s aunt, Andrea Arnold, who had heard of the Yung Berg incident, was freshly outraged. Arnold raised Freeman after her sister’s death.
“I think it’s a shame that Prosecutor Kym Worthy hasn’t prosecuted those bouncers,” Arnold said, “They’re still free to do whatever they want to do to anybody’s child. I would like to see what she would do if a relative of hers was killed there.”
Worthy refused to bring charges in Freeman’s killing only two days after the incident.
During an earlier interview with Victor Smith and his friends, they confirmed the report of his near-fatal beating described in a $15 million lawsuit filed by his attorney Thomas Randolph. Smith was visibly physically and mentally impaired weeks after the beating, walking with evident pain and talking with difficulty. His daughter said she was helping him apply for Social Security disability.
Smith’s friends said they tried to follow bouncers into a back room where they took Smith after he complained that a female patron had spit on him. But other bouncers guarded the door, and his friends said they then heard sounds of a struggle in the room.
Shortly afterwards, they said they found Smith bleeding and unconscious in the street outside the club. Smith’s lawsuit said he had a “fractured orbit, a black eye, contusions, and a traumatic brain injury that left him unconscious for days, with amnesia and other injuries.”
The lawsuit asks for the “corporate veil of secrecy” on Plan B to be lifted, because the club is not listed in state or city records as having either a liquor license or a permit to operate. A state official said at the time that there was an approved agreement in place to transfer the liquor license from its owner “All Jokes Aside,” but that the transfer had not yet taken place.
City officials said the operating license for the address, at 205-11 W. Congress, was still in the name of a restaurant that previously operated there. They never confirmed allegations by Arabo’s attorney that the city had a standing agreement with Arabo to allow time for a transfer of the permit.
Like I said before, I could care less about what happened to this little fool after what he said about dark skinned Black Women. Dumb A$$ !!!
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