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Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop
FOXNews.com ^ | June 04, 2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 06/05/2010 8:22:46 AM PDT by 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...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: antipolice; liberals; oregon; vegans

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

1 posted on 06/05/2010 8:22:47 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Perhaps the police should be LATE on a call?

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


2 posted on 06/05/2010 8:25:15 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: KeyLargo

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


3 posted on 06/05/2010 8:26:53 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: KeyLargo

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.


4 posted on 06/05/2010 8:29:52 AM PDT by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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To: KeyLargo

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


5 posted on 06/05/2010 8:30:58 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: KeyLargo

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’”


6 posted on 06/05/2010 8:31:30 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: MediaMole

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


7 posted on 06/05/2010 8:34:22 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: MediaMole

8 posted on 06/05/2010 8:44:59 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
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.
9 posted on 06/05/2010 8:47:19 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: KeyLargo

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

i am sure the cops will be there in a hurry


10 posted on 06/05/2010 8:57:20 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: FrankR

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.


11 posted on 06/05/2010 8:58:02 AM PDT by strider44
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To: KeyLargo
What the he11 is THAT stuff on the plate?


12 posted on 06/05/2010 8:58:11 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: KeyLargo

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.


13 posted on 06/05/2010 9:16:42 AM PDT by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum)
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To: TLI


Looks Like Mussels a la Crudeoil

14 posted on 06/05/2010 9:18:56 AM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: TLI

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.


15 posted on 06/05/2010 9:19:24 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: TLI

A nice big piece of whale liver.


16 posted on 06/05/2010 9:36:06 AM PDT by TigersEye ("Flotilla" means "pirate ships running supplies to terrorists.")
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To: SeaHawkFan

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


17 posted on 06/05/2010 11:17:20 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: KeyLargo

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.


18 posted on 06/06/2010 6:46:33 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: SeaHawkFan

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


19 posted on 06/08/2010 12:05:15 PM PDT by StopBigGovt
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