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Oakland cafe’s refusal to serve police draws attention
San Jose Mercury ^ | March 9, 2018 | George Kelly

Posted on 03/09/2018 7:15:34 AM PST by artichokegrower

Police officers are not welcome as customers at one East Oakland cafe, according to a report by local television station.

A post to that cafe’s Instagram account Feb. 22 showed a crossed-out Oakland police seal and badge below the words “Habla con tu vecinxs no con la policia.”

The post said an Oakland police officer walked into Hasta Muerte, 2701 Fruitvale Ave., on Feb. 16 and was declined service by a worker-owner because “we have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: cafe; california; oakland; police
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The post closes with a request for community members, rather than law enforcement, to support the cafe’s safety “[e]specially in an area faced by drug sales and abuse, homelessness, and toxic masculinity as we see here on this block.”


Toxic masculinity? Anyhow hey dumb@ss your description of your neighborhood is why you want police in and around your business.

1 posted on 03/09/2018 7:15:34 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

If they get robbed, they can call a community activist.


2 posted on 03/09/2018 7:17:56 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: artichokegrower

They could have saved money on the sign.

Just post: “Criminal Hangout”


3 posted on 03/09/2018 7:17:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: artichokegrower

The resolution can be quickly achieved by posting an officer with a video camera photographing every customer coming and going.

Of course since it is Oakland and not america, I don’t really give a damn


4 posted on 03/09/2018 7:18:17 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: artichokegrower

How can a public accomodation do that? What happened to “Bake me a cake or else!” But it’s probably not a good idea to get food or drink from such a place!


5 posted on 03/09/2018 7:19:08 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: artichokegrower

The closest restaurant to this place should hang out a big sign: “Police Officers Welcome - Special Discounts”


6 posted on 03/09/2018 7:23:43 AM PST by circlecity
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To: artichokegrower

“Oakland”

That’s all I needed to read to know it was going to be some freak fest of stupidity on display.


7 posted on 03/09/2018 7:23:49 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: artichokegrower

Where’s the ACLU. You can bet your ass if they were refusing to sell coffee to a gay party it would be all over this!!!


8 posted on 03/09/2018 7:24:49 AM PST by ontap
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To: BBQToadRibs

Sounds like a nice place for ICE to visit weekly.


9 posted on 03/09/2018 7:25:00 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: artichokegrower

What if the police officer is “trans-gender”?


10 posted on 03/09/2018 7:26:34 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Menehune56

Terminate the business license and utilities. Post a
health department warning on the door.


11 posted on 03/09/2018 7:26:57 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Menehune56

> How can a public accommodation do that? What happened to “Bake me a cake or else!” <

I’m not a lawyer, but here’s what I think the deal is. It’s all about being a member of a legally protected class, or not. You can’t deny service based on race, for example. That’s because race is a legally protected class. But your job type is not a legally protected class.

So I guess you can deny service to a cop, just because he’s a cop.

> But it’s probably not a good idea to get food or drink from such a place! <

You’ve got that right. Better to be denied service than be poisoned.


12 posted on 03/09/2018 7:30:18 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: artichokegrower

Oakland is known as little Africa, so why is it a surprise they would hate law enforcement officers?


13 posted on 03/09/2018 7:32:01 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Myrddin

Hasta Muerte Coffee Yelp review:

One star

Terrible coffee and terrible pastries. It feels less like a local coffee shop and more like an Antifa stronghold. Any moment I felt like a herd of masked socialist LARPers would walk in and start attacking an innocent trash can.

This establishment is ran by SJW cucks who are anti police. They have a strict policy where they don’t serve police officers. These are the same kind of people who talk about unity and coming together as a community and yet they enforce discriminatory policies. Sad!

Care to write your own?

https://www.yelp.com/biz/hasta-muerte-coffee-oakland


14 posted on 03/09/2018 7:32:45 AM PST by artichokegrower
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Prime robbery target.

Not wishing physical harm, but they could use a real good scare from some robbers each and every day for the next two weeks.


15 posted on 03/09/2018 7:34:52 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: artichokegrower

From their webpage...

English version:

Hasta Muerte Coffee is a new, poc collectively run, worker-owned coffee shop. We are committed to nurturing community while serving the best coffee, hasta la muerte. Offering drinks and snacks and hosting a specialty bookstore, we hope to provide a warm and inclusive atmosphere for friends and neighbors to gather. We believe in non-hierarchical work spaces, quality coffee, and community building.

Spanish version:

Even death coffee is a new cafeteria operated collectively by people of color, where workers are owners. We are committed to nurturing the community while serving the best coffee. We will serve snacks and have a library of specialized books, we hope to provide a warm and inclusive environment for friends and neighbors to gather. We believe in work spaces without hierarchies, quality coffee and community building.

Notice what they would only say in spanish?

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16 posted on 03/09/2018 7:37:49 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: artichokegrower

WHAT COUNTRY did this take place in?


17 posted on 03/09/2018 7:38:43 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: artichokegrower

Sounds like a good place for ICE to visit.


18 posted on 03/09/2018 7:41:03 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: WayneS

Apparently, they hate transgender cops, too.

19 posted on 03/09/2018 7:43:47 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: MarvinStinson

Mexifornia.


20 posted on 03/09/2018 7:43:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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