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| Oakland Coffee Shop Will Not Serve Cops for ‘Safety of Customers’ |
| 2018-03-11 |
| [BREITBART] Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte Coffee refuses to serve police due to a concern for the "safety of customers." The policy came to light after NBC Bay Area reported the coffee shop refused to serve an officer in uniform on February 16. KCRA reports that the store took to social media, saying, "We have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves." An Instagram post by Hasta Muerte provides an overview of the store’s position, saying in part: We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that we are not alone saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical & emotional safety. There are those that do not share that sentiment ‐ be it because they have a friend or relative who is a police, because they are white or have adopted the privileges whiteness affords, because they are home- or business- owning, or whatever the particular case may be. If they want to make claims about police being part of the community, or claims that race trumps the badge & gun when it comes to police, they must accept that the burden of proof for such a claim is on them. Hasta Muerte also noted, "The facts are that [people of color], women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks." This statement dovetails with KCRA’s report that Hasta Muetre shared a post in Spanish, which said, "Talk to your neighbors, not the police." The refusal to serve police comes as the Trump administration is suing Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, for the state’s sanctuary city policy. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 A target of opportunity by the thugs now. They are living on borrowed time. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-03-11 20:21 |
| #15 According to Fox News, Hasta Muerte Coffee is an employee owned business, ie. communists. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-11 17:30 |
| #14 Trendy is stupid. Stupid is trendy. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-03-11 16:54 |
| #13 I wonder if it isn't a move to better allow them to sell drugs out of their business. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-03-11 16:25 |
| #12 The police should announce that as they are not welcome, police service will not be given to the place no matter what happens. And I'll wager the fire dept will follow suit, only protecting neighboring buildings and watching theirs burn. Another thing they can do is ensure it gets a nice round of inspections every week. Building up to code? Can you pass a health inspection? All permits proper and up to date? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-03-11 15:51 |
| #11 "911. What's your emergency?" "This is Hasta Muerte Coffee. We're being robbed. There's a guy with a gun." "Hasta Muerte? The place that doesn't serve police officers?" "Well, yes, but we need the police NOW! The guy is shooting people." "Sorry, ma'am. But under the directive of the Commissioner for Public Relations, we're not allowed to send police officers anywhere that they are not welcome." "But, but... he's SHOOTING people!" "Sorry. We'll send a squad car later this evening to check out the scene. From the outside, of course" Sound of gunshots. End of call. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-11 14:39 |
| #10 What if the cops were gay? They would have to serve them; the Supreme Court says so. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2018-03-11 12:59 |
| #9 Isn't it always? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 11:49 |
| #8 And when this place gets robbed in the next couple of days, the police response time will be measured in hours. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-03-11 11:48 |
| #7 Oakland is such a sh*thole of the mind, body, and spirit. In the next world you are on your own, asta lavisa coffee. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-03-11 10:58 |
| #6 especially youth, trans, and houseless folks. WTF? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-11 10:37 |
| #5 And see, I wouldn't have stopped in Oakland for my own safety. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-03-11 10:16 |
| #4 "Utill Death Coffee"? That's what Hasta Muerte Coffee translate to. I guess the owner is taking the name literally. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-03-11 09:47 |
| #3 Ask the sanitation dep to look it up. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 08:57 |
| #2 Off or On duty... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-03-11 08:53 |
| #1 Oakland PD should announce that Hasta Muerte Coffee is a No Go zone for officers in or out of uniform. |
| Posted by: Anguper Angearong6845 2018-03-11 08:48 |