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About four months after Ali Ahmed Mohammed died outside its doors, DC9 will be returning to regular hours — opening every night of the week, beginning tonight at 5 p.m. A return to daily operations was made possible when the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board ruled to lift all restrictions on the bar this afternoon, specifically the requirement that club ownership pay for a reimbursable police detail whenever they were open.

Of course, some in attendance at today’s hearing were not thrilled with the decision, as Sommer Mathis reports:

After the hearing, a tearful Alemnesh Williams, who owns Edna Unisex Salon on 18th Street and said Mohammed had been a regular customer of hers, approached board members to tell them how disappointed she was that it appeared DC9 was being allowed to get back to business as usual.

“This was a person, not a dog,” said Williams. “God is going to punish them.”

The bar will reportedly stay open until 2 a.m. tonight; Mathis notes that food service will also be coming back soon.