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Whataburger fires employee for refusing to serve police officers
FoxNews.com ^ | September 16, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 09/16/2015 2:26:09 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy

A Texas Whataburger employee was fired Wednesday for refusing to serve two police officers in what the company is describing as an appalling incident.

Officers Michael Magovern and Cameron Beckham were working off-duty security at a construction site on I-35 early Wednesday morning when they decided to stop at the restaurant in Lewisville, FOX 26 reports.

Magovern said before he could even place his order, the man behind the counter told him “We don’t serve police officers.”

The two officers decided to leave and went and got food at Dairy Queen instead.

"We were appalled to hear of an employee refusing service to two officers, as we have proudly served first responders across our system for decades,” Whataburger said in a statement Wednesday. “As soon as we heard of this isolated incident, we began our own internal investigation overnight. The employee that refused service is no longer employed with Whataburger. We've also invited the officers back today so we can apologize in person and make this right."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cameronbeckham; dairyqueen; lewisville; michaelmagovern; polices; texas; whataburger
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“As soon as we heard of this isolated incident, we began our own internal investigation overnight. The employee that refused service is no longer employed with Whataburger. We've also invited the officers back today so we can apologize in person and make this right."

Finally, a company responds correctly when an idiot employee refuses to serve police officers.

1 posted on 09/16/2015 2:26:09 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Is the fired employee another of those Urban Amish?


2 posted on 09/16/2015 2:28:09 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

If you’re ever in a car accident, don’t call the police for help.


3 posted on 09/16/2015 2:28:41 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

The moron who refused the officers service will likely have proudly and joyously “journaled” his stunt on facebook by now..


4 posted on 09/16/2015 2:28:52 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

And the US Attorney in Dallas should charge the ex-employee for discriminating against the two police officers because of their race. The fired former employee is African-American. The two police officers were Caucasians.


5 posted on 09/16/2015 2:29:15 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Iron Munro

Another high paying career taken away by The Man. # yojobmatter


6 posted on 09/16/2015 2:29:37 PM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I bet that employee was Black because only Black Lives Matter. Any takers on that bet?


7 posted on 09/16/2015 2:30:08 PM PDT by Din Maker (GOP Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for VP)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL! Urban Amish! I wish there was a picture of that employee to take a good look at the face of a bigot.


8 posted on 09/16/2015 2:30:30 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
And the US Attorney in Dallas should charge the ex-employee for discriminating against the two police officers because of their race.

Under the current administration, it is far more likely that Whataburger will be charged with discrimination for firing the employee.

9 posted on 09/16/2015 2:31:01 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Iron Munro

He probably didn’t want his job anyway, is my guess.


10 posted on 09/16/2015 2:31:17 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: shankbear
Another high paying career taken away by The Man.
# yojobmatter

The racist white power structure claims another victim!


11 posted on 09/16/2015 2:33:12 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Good good, I wouldn’t want to give that up.


12 posted on 09/16/2015 2:34:31 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
The fired former employee is African-American. The two police officers were Caucasians.

Not doubting you, but got a link for that? Hate repeating stuff elsewhere that turns out bogus.

13 posted on 09/16/2015 2:35:54 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Yeah, in all the threads today, leading up to this story about the employee being fired, I have seen no evidence of race.


14 posted on 09/16/2015 2:40:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: doorgunner69

“The fired former employee is African-American. The two police officers were Caucasians.

Not doubting you, but got a link for that? Hate repeating stuff elsewhere that turns out bogus.”

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it’s on the FOX26 link on the link, there’s a video with the 2 “caucasian” cops, aka WHITE COPS.

There I said it, whew! MichaeIt, was it really hard to say “white cop” and “black employee” or is liberal white guilt prevalent in your fsmily?


15 posted on 09/16/2015 2:41:47 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Good.

But what the newly fired employee (discreetly, from a distance).

16 posted on 09/16/2015 2:42:03 PM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: max americana

Got no sound, just saw two chubby white guys at the Fox link.


17 posted on 09/16/2015 2:43:55 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
in all the threads today, leading up to this story about the employee being fired, I have seen no evidence of race.

Which, in itself, leads to the inescapable conclusion...

19 posted on 09/16/2015 2:44:43 PM PDT by Company Man (Keep on Trumpin')
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To: fwdude

“He probably didn’t want his job anyway, is my guess.”

My husband flew for a company based in Atlanta. The turn over in flight attendants was extremely high. They’d work just long enough to qualify for unemployment. And you can guess the demographic.


20 posted on 09/16/2015 2:45:18 PM PDT by pops88 (Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
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