Posted on 10/21/2017 10:12:20 PM PDT by Teflonic
'I've lost my business': Mother is forced to CLOSE her coffee shop after her daughter refused to host a 'Coffee with a Cop' evening there calling police 'racist bullies'
The owner of a coffee shop has been forced to shut down her business following backlash over her daughter's anti-police remarks on Facebook.
Kato Mele decided to shutter the White Rose Coffeehouse in Lynn, Massachusetts just a week after the controversy erupted, saying she made the decision 'so I can stop being harassed'.
The uproar started when Mele's 23-year-old daughter Sophie, who works as a manager at the coffeehouse, said on Facebook that the cafe would never host a 'Coffee With A Cop' event and went on to call police racists and bullies in the subsequent discussion thread.
Coffee With A Cop is a nationwide movement to build trust between police departments and the citizens they serve.
'I will gladly host a "meet an ex-con" or "meet the impoverished minority community" event,' Sophie wrote in comments that have since been deleted, but copies of which were obtained by DailyMail.com. 'I'm not going to promote any pro-police event because I'm adamantly anti-police.'
She went on to call cops 'bullies' who uphold an 'inherently violent, oppressive and unjust system'.
The remarks spread quickly across the Internet and sparked a massive backlash, with many who took issue with the anti-police sentiment leaving scathing online reviews for the coffeehouse.
Sophie responded by offering an apology for her remarks on Facebook.
But as the furor grew, her mother Mele fired her from the manager position at the coffee shop.
The online cries for blood continued, however, and Mele penned a heartfelt apology letter published by the local newspaper.
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Nah, she's not ugly, IMO. But what's in her heart is hideously ugly and monstrous.
Yeah, sure - except hate against Law Enforcement Officials.
That's "cool."
Regards,
If you are going to have such a manager you deserve to lose your business.
Liberal arts major. Thus the career as a barista. It’s formulaic.
And people wonder how stereotypes get established.
If the mother didn’t live in the area, she might not know about those signs on the door. Why would the owner want to host a police/community event if she did know?
I am guessing it is even worse than that.
My theory is that her mother started the business so that her SJW daughter could have a job.
So now her more realistic mother is out her investment and she is unemployed because she went to a socialist indoctrination center and absorbed social justice theory and embraced the propaganda.
Knowing a little about how coffee shops are run I figure that the mother will be paying for her mistake for months to come.
Facebook claims another one.
I notice stupid Sophie (who is a good writer and obviously has been educated but has no common sense) called it “my business” but it is her mom’s. Wouldn’t want to be at their house this Thanksgiving.
Another Massachusetts Marxist pig.
one of my adopted black daughters became a nationally known chain’s youngest managers at age 19. Because she was and is very good and very competent. In between mission trips to Central America, she would manage an upscale coffee house in a local trendoid area.
She comp-ed every cop who came in. In turn when she shut the lights at 1130 at night the patrol car followed her the six blocks to the parking lot.
When she recently went back to national chain she had a great relationship with the police. Until the morning of the police shootings. All the police came in as usual. But they wouldn’t look at her. She came around and told them in tears, that she was distraught over the shootings. They all started crying.
The bastards who are trying to tear this country apart will pay for their machinations and plots.
Wonder if her mother will give her a good job reference?
Here is their YouTube video shot earlier. I think the woman in the gray and black outfit is the daughter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZc7UIdEDI
They also welcome those making use of their 2nd Amendment rights...
Lynn Massachusetts an Liberal Cesspool.
Good
The progressives have educated our young well
If she called me a Latinx, I would call her a moron to her face.
More proof that it doesn’t pay for businesses to become openly and actively involved in politics and social issues.
Bad parenting and then you whine about the effects of it.
Michael Savage hit the nail on the head when he said that liberalism is a mental disorder.
"The coffee shop in Lynn, Massachusetts had been open for about a year".
Statistically, "most restaurants close during their first year of operation."
So her venture is right on schedule.
Free business advice to Kato Mele, if she tries to open another coffee shop:
Don't paste ANY political crap to your front door. NONE. (Or anywhere else in the business.) No employees with political buttons, shirts, hats, stickers, etc. It's a rough business without turning away half of your potential customer base.
Also, IMO, it was a pretty dumb idea in the first place. Police -- particularly police working in neighborhoods "on the rise" -- have better things to do with their time than to sit around drinking coffee and chatting.
If I tried opening a coffee shop in an iffy neighborhood, I'd definitely offer free coffee and internet access to LEOs as a matter of business policy.
But I don't think I'd ever try opening a coffee shop in an "on the rise" neighborhood the first place. If "most restaurants close during their first year of operation" the odds must be FAR worse in iffy neighborhoods.
Better chances buying Lotto tickets with the money.
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