Posted on 07/06/2019 4:58:29 AM PDT by bryan999
Some police officers in Tempe, Ariz., say they were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on the Fourth of July because a customer complained they “did not feel safe” with the cops present, according to reports.
Five officers were drinking coffee at the Starbucks location prior to their shift beginning when a barista asked them to move out of the complaining customer’s line of sight or else leave, the Tempe Officers Association wrote in a series of Twitter messages.
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"A Starbucks spokesman told the Arizona Republic the company was still gathering details about what happened.
"'We have a deep respect for the Tempe Police and their service to the community,' spokesman Reggie Borges told the newspaper. 'We've reached out to the Tempe Police Department and Tempe Officers Association to better understand what happened and apologize. We want everyone in our stores to feel welcomed and the incident described is not indicative of what we want any of our customers to feel in our stores.'
"Neither the barista nor the customer who allegedly complained were identified. Starbucks would not say whether the barista would be disciplined in connection with the case."
I hope Starbuck’s got that customer’s number in case there’s a robbery at the store.
Hard to boycott something you haven’t set foot in ,in over 5 years..
My wallet suffers extreme anxiety if I even walk by a Starbucks.
I don’t feel comfortable in Starbucks if there is a 100 lb over weight customer in the area. Oh wait! That kind of comfort doesn’t matter. I guess that is just personal.
Post; comments BUMP!
How can the police afford that lousy but pricey coffee?
Bake the cake, commie faggot
I wouldn’t feel comfortable with 5 Muslim men sitting around, potentially conspiring to blow the place up. Good luck if I asked the barista to kick THEM out.
They should sue the s**t out of Starbucks for discrimination.
I bet that barista has a worthless college degree and $100k in student loan debt.
Same here, over 5 years. Helped out my wallet immensely.
And, now it’s Black Rifle Coffee, all day, every day.
We want everyone in our stores to feel welcomed...
That’s starting to look unpossible.
General notice to the neighborhood. If there is a disturbance at this Starbucks, the police will be elsewhere. Take what you want; it is all free.
Wooo woooo.
I would not tempt fate like that.
What if a robber ….aww never mind.
and will learn nothing! Better to reach out to the snowflake and discover which kind of therapy is needed to fix the snowflake.
The claim by the waitress does not pass the smell test. Something is rotten. The discomfort due to the presence of the officers may have been hers alone. The easiest response for her was to suggest the customer leave.
Not a problem. Never forget the police are very busy people, and if it takes them, say, 38 minutes, to respond to an employees-held-hostage situation at that Starbucks, I’m sure those employees, or at least their families, will understand.
5 people should “move out of the sight line”?!?
That must have been one magic customer.
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