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Mother forced to CLOSE coffee shop after daughter refused to host a 'Coffee with a Cop' evening
Daily Mail ^ | 10/21/2017 | Keith Griffith

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; lynn; massachusetts; sjwsnowflake
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To: Teflonic

DVS. Death by virtue signaling.

61 posted on 10/22/2017 4:45:24 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Teflonic

They forgot the city motto:

Lynn Lynn city of sin,
you never go out
the way you came in.


62 posted on 10/22/2017 4:47:44 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Chickensoup

Ha! Just wait for the fur to fly when the daughter files an unemployment claim against her mother, but lists her residence as Mom’s basement.


63 posted on 10/22/2017 5:27:49 AM PDT by louie2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That thought occurred to me.


64 posted on 10/22/2017 5:33:40 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Mom probably gave her that position because she couldn’t get hired anywhere else. And this is how she is repaid.


65 posted on 10/22/2017 6:09:56 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: LegendHasIt
She DECIDED to closed her business after alienating her customers. Follywood and the National Felon League is learning this lesson each week and daily!
66 posted on 10/22/2017 6:21:10 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump is kicking their a$$es, they, ______________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: Teflonic

I went through the first page of posts, and no one has mentioned that the very name of the shop indicates Commie leanings. The White Rose was the name of the group of idiot college students in Munich who got themselves killed through stupid and ineffective anti-Nazi protests. They are seen as martyrs by the left.


67 posted on 10/22/2017 6:26:46 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Chickensoup

Chickensoup, sounds like you did an awesome job raising your daughter. My hats off to you.


68 posted on 10/22/2017 6:26:52 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Sooth2222
"Who is Starbucks' favorite customer?"

"Its target demographic is urban and affluent, often on-the-go white-collar professionals looking to take their caffeine fix with them to the office. The company considers its core customers to be educated, with an average age of 42, and average income of $90,000."

I think she didn't understand the coffee shop target market very well.

Also, a 7:00 AM opening time for a coffee shop seems a little late unless your intended target market is crack dealers and prostitutes.

If you want to sell coffee to nearby office workers who want to grab a cup on their way to work, 6:00 AM or 6:30 might be better.

69 posted on 10/22/2017 6:29:05 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: PAR35; Teflonic

It took longer to sink in, but I noticed she even named her daughter after one of the ringleaders of the Weiße Rose. Generational communists.


70 posted on 10/22/2017 6:29:30 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Robert DeLong

She could always go work at a truck stop as a “lot lizard”.


71 posted on 10/22/2017 6:47:20 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Teflonic
That daughter looks like an uglier version of Chelsea...😀
72 posted on 10/22/2017 6:51:08 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is :-))
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To: LegendHasIt

She was forced, by law, to close.

Economic laws cannot be broken without irresistible consequences.


73 posted on 10/22/2017 7:57:52 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: TMA62

Interesting and enlightening video about the mom’s coffee shop.

I think the mom is more aligned with the daughter’s philosophy than she is letting on. Mom had enough business sense to not publicly publish her “anti” thoughts.

I, personally, would not sit thru a rap song containing vulgar language like the rapper singing in the video. I would leave and not come back. But each to his/her/xi own.


74 posted on 10/22/2017 8:09:39 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Teflonic

“Latinx” LOL!

English does not have gender assignments to ordinary nouns, except in a few cases...Lion-Lioness, etc.

The Latin (or Romance) Languages (including French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and others) assign a GENDER to every noun, even inanimate objects. So “La Salla” (room in Spanish) La Plume (pen in French) la Cuchina (”Kitchen” in Italian) are all FEMININE nouns and have to have all the modifiers and adjective agree with feminine endings.

El Toro (The Bull in Spanish), Le Crayon (the pencil in French) and Il Duce(the Leader, in Italian) are MASCULINE nouns, even if the item in question does not actually have a gender.

Persons who speak these languages are VERY protective of their heritage and would be quite insulted if this foolish little American girl alters their words. A Latino has Machismo, and would be heinously insulted if you took that “O” off and saddled him with an “X”. Likewise, a Latina,who prides herself in her femininity, would probably scratch this little b%tch’s eyeballs out for taking away her “A”!

What a CULTURALLY INSENSITIVE and LINGUISTICALLY Moronic thing to say! hahahahaha


75 posted on 10/22/2017 8:16:58 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Pontiac
Must be a Liberal Arts major.

I'm a liberal arts major - classical liberal arts.

Your world would be a very different place without classical liberal arts.

76 posted on 10/22/2017 8:22:32 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: Sooth2222

<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.

I don’t know about neighborhoods “on the rise,” but my university town hosts coffee with a cop monthly. I don’t know how popular it is, but it’s been going on for over a year, so someone must be going to them.


77 posted on 10/22/2017 8:59:53 AM PDT by radiohead
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To: TMA62

The mom seems to be somewhat of a “SJW” herself.


78 posted on 10/22/2017 9:24:16 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: TMA62
Thank you for the youtube link, that video fills in all the blanks doesn't it?

Crazy daughter may have even been trying to protect her meth faced mom from police scrutiny, was the place being used as a drug front?

79 posted on 10/22/2017 9:37:53 AM PDT by Teflonic (tt)
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To: PAR35
It took longer to sink in, but I noticed she even named her daughter after one of the ringleaders of the Weiße Rose. Generational communists.

I was wondering why something was not adding up in my mind until you just mentioned it. Thanks for connecting the dots in my mind.

80 posted on 10/22/2017 9:50:20 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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