Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop

FOXNews.com ^ | June 04, 2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[KeyLargo]

- FOXNews.com

Joshua Rhett Miller - June 04, 2010

Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop

A police officer in Portland, Ore., was asked to leave a vegan coffee shop last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com.

The Red & Black Cafe is no place for a man in blue.

Police Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com.

Crooker, 36, a 2-year veteran of the force, entered the Red & Black Café on May 18 and bought a cup of coffee before a customer approached him and said she appreciated his efforts.

That's when John Langley, one of the co-owners of the collectively managed shop, approached the cop and asked him to leave...

[KeyLargo]

A former Marine who served in Iraq, Portland Officer James Crooker

[nmh]

Perhaps the police should be LATE on a call?

If they are not wanted there, maybe the “commuity” should “police” itself?

[SeaHawkFan]

I was at this place ONCE. Trust me, the only thing this will do is increase business.

[Wage Slave]

He will now get free coffee for life from the normal business owners who find out how the moonbats dissed him. I hope he sues the moonbats.

[MediaMole]

Red (communists) and Black (anarchists) Cafe. i.e. hangout for radicals.

[TheBigIf]

So then this vegan coffee shop is supportive of the “right to association” and agree with Rand Paul?

Can other businesses ask hippies or greenies or even Paulites to leave?

I can just see the signs on the doors now....

“No service for ‘insert activism or profession’”

[beebuster2000]

well red and black stood for clergy and military in stendahls day

[KeyLargo]

[FrankR]

Those "vegans" should even be selling coffee...there are over 900 insects who feed on coffee bean crops the world over, therefore the vegans are depriving these living things of their staple food supply for capital gain. /sarc

Wouldn't it be fun now if they were robbed and the police would refuse to respond...after all, the vegans don't want them in their place, so it would be only right.

Vegans, are nuts.

[longfellow]

memo to self- rob the The Red & Black Cafe.

i am sure the cops will be there in a hurry

[strider44]

Why go into a place you’re not wanted? They probably would piss in his coffee anyway. The hypocrisy is that say this was a mom and pop coffe shop and some cross-dressing “transgender” freak walked in. If mom and pop asked the she/him to leave, the liberal press would be outraged and a law suit would follow.

[TLI]

What the he11 is THAT stuff on the plate?

[Porterville]

Can’t blame them. Can’t stand half the cops in my town. Whole bunch of overpaid clowns collecting taxes in the form of infractions. I’d rather have the IRS come collect, at least they admit to being federal whores.

[left that other site]

Looks Like Mussels a la Crudeoil

[12Gauge687]

Although it’s kind of odd to say, those look like mussels (especially in the person’s mouth). So, that makes the moron in the photo NOT vegan.

[TigersEye]

A nice big piece of whale liver.

[kabumpo]

I hope that someone comes in to hold up the joint, and when the owner dials 911 for help, no one comes.

[CodeToad]

Seems this cop was really nice in that such actions could have resulted in an arrest. It wouldn’t take much to provoke the liberal.

[StopBigGovt]

Wow, that is really sad that it will increase their business. What is our country coming to? (rhetorical question).... :)