Arizona Starbucks under fire for asking police officers to leave the premises - have since apologized for the incident

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-florida-officer-allegedly-planted-180952213.html

Here is a little story about 120 people who no longer trust the police and for a very good reason.

This is why you should not blindly trust a cop. You should not blindly trust anyone in life.

In most cases, you'll never hear about it. It might make the local news in some cases depending on the locale, but it usually dies quietly.

Case in point, I found nearly the precise inverse of this story via a quick search.

Link

In most cases you'll never hear about it but the example you link was on Vox? You are aware that specific incident made national news, yes?

No, you did not find the precise inverse

I hope can tell the difference between law enforcement officers being asked to leave and someone calling the police to what they assume is suspicious individuals.

@Solaryellow: If that's the type of fallout you're fallout you're referring to, then it matches what happened here. If you'd like, I can pull up plenty of other instances. There are no shortages of them.

@Jacanuk: "I hope can tell the difference between law enforcement officers being asked to leave and someone calling the police to what they assume is suspicious individuals."

*Assumed to be suspicious because they were black*

In post #53 you stated "In most cases, you'll never hear about it. It might make the local news in some cases depending on the locale, but it usually dies quietly." You followed that statement up with an example where it went nationwide.

The type of fallout I am mentioning is when a white person feels threatened by a black person. The fallout is usually fierce with the typical race card being pulled rather than acting as if it wasn't a big deal.

@drunk_pi: You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Starbucks discriminates to all groups. People just dont see it. Theyre stressed to have a diverse staff, if possible.

Honestly, it's not starbucks. It's some asshole employee of theirs. Just like the guy that called the cops on the 2 black gentlemen at a starbucks. It's not company policy to kick out police officers or racially discriminate. You cant predict what some people will do, so I dont blame starbucks.

The Tempe police aren't saints, they have a history of scandals. With how a lot of police departments treat people of colour and other minorities in the US, I wouldn't be surprised to see someone "uncomfortable" with five of them in one place at one time.

Personally, I would just leave, and I'm not sure why the Starbucks employee fulfilled their request.

@Rockman999:

Bruh, I would seek out a therapist ASAP. That kind of spiteful attitude is exactly why racism exists.

Is any of said treatment ever brought upon themselves or is it just the usual racism infiltrating law enforcement?

Well, your last comment is kinda sad but also very true.

Fact of life is that you can only blindly trust yourself. Everyone else will almost certainly at one point f you over.

But we can agree that some police officers are bad but most are good guys and if you treat them with respect and respect the law, you will 99 times out of a 100 never go wrong.

Again let´s examine the two situations.

One is a Barista that calls the police on someone = Police just doing their job.

Second is a Barista asking police officers who are just having a coffee break to leave because a snowflake is a snowflake.

Again I hope you are aware of the difference and that you are trying to compare apples to oranges if you try to do = between the two.

I hope you can see that the only difference between the two situations is who is in power.

What are you talking about?

Are you trying to argue against the cops or against the barista something here because you are making zero sense?

The first situation is some wisecrack barista telling cops to leave because they are cops.

Your brought up situation is of a barista calling the cops and 2 cops who are doing nothing wrong and just doing their job

While I understand the draw to reach for a racial brush, especially when pre-conceived mantra and virtue signaling reigns high in these sort of viral "scenarios", you tend to lose the forest among the trees. Especially when a routine trespassing in progress call for service comes out regarding two subjects inside a business who were not paying customers and refused to leave after being asked too. They further refused to leave when directed by law enforcement, hence why they were arrested based on the likelihood of a crime continuing (misd arrest). I literally handle sometimes up to three of these types of calls for service a shift, some even at Starbucks still.

So you have one situation of a misdemeanor crime occurring, and another situation where six paying customers are asked to leave because of ... "teh police are scury on teh furth of july?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@mattbbpl: @Stevo_the_gamer:

This is exactly the point Matt seems to miss.

He seems to miss that the police are responding to a call from a Starbucks where 2 individuals felt they had the right no matter what the Store´s personal said to stay inside without buying anything Is not at all comparable to someone asking paying customers to leave because they are being snowflakes and decided that police = bad people.