Posted on 07/06/2019 9:36:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A group of Arizona police officers were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on July 4 after a customer complained to staff that she “didn’t feel safe” with them being there, reports say.
Five cops from the Tempe Police Department were drinking at a branch of the coffee chain in the city when they were approached by a barista and told that a customer had made a complaint about their presence.
The worker is said to have told them to either move out of the complaining customer’s line of sight or leave the premises entirely, the Tempe Officers Association claimed in a series of tweets.
President of the union, Rob Ferraro, believes the treatment the officers were subjected to is an unfortunate sign of the times.
“It’s become accepted to not trust or to see police and think that we’re not here to serve you,” Ferraro told FOX 10. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I have never been inside one and,barring some extraordinary circumstance, never will.
Yep.
You must consider Texas being, “Californicated” as well after the epic massacre when a cop hater shot to death 5 cops and seriously injured 9 others in a single event. No?
If one customer “didn’t feel safe”, she should have left.
Starbucks should NOT have asked the policemen to leave. That was terrible.
If I'm these police, I surround the 'customer' on all sides, hands on our guns, and run her license.
Reaaaally slowly.
Then I look her car over, meticulously, for any equipment violations.
Then I park all our cruisers right behind her vehicle, waiting for her to drive, to make sure she does everything right.
Liberal America.....home of the coddled and whiny....
I’d have to resist waiting until the customer left and robbing them. But I wouldn’t do that.
As a security guard with a blue police style shirt and a big brass badge looking thing I was welcome in the 7-11 I hung out in before work and my presence for half an hour or so did noticeably cut down on shoplifting. When some scrounge would walk in with an oversize field jacket on I would follow him around the store and he would give me a look and leave.If I saw someone at the gas pump keep looking up at the window I went out there and stood behind his car writing on my pad. He would put the handle back to the pump and go inside to pay the 50 cents he had got. Etc. I had fun and the store had a little bit less loss.
As if I needed another reason not to go to Starbucks...
These are the same a-holes that say only cops should be armed.
You are being sarcastic, right? AZ is the land of Jeff Flake and John McCain is it not?
It is - Toyota, the tech companies, the banks and the insurance companies are all moving in Californians and other Yankees to try to flip the state in 2020.
Texas needs a wall, but not on the Mexican border.
Bet there heath violations at that site .....
Who told this knucklehead that she had a right to feel safe? Which natural law, which article or amendment in the constitution stipulates such a right?
So if a certain demographic commits a higher percentage of crime than others can I have such a group removed for my safety?
The stupid little girl pretending to be a woman should have left the premises if she didn’t “feel safe.”
Regardless, it's one less place in Tempe to which to give business.
I’m still boycotting since the open bathroom policy. I am a germ a phobia and can’t risk bugs at my house.
Unabbreviated.
> No bad guys are going to try anything with the cops around. <
Here’s a great Gunny commercial. “Somebody picked the wrong diner.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE
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