The manager sent an apology letter. If it was a group of hoodlums, respectively paying customers, would they have gotten an apology letter. How about if it was a group of construction workers. It could have been a group of women. Point being, if they were making someon feel uncomfortable, then the barista did the right thing in asking them to leave. Just because they were police officers doesn’t make a difference when people feel intimidated.
What does that tell you about the police officers? It seems to me they must have had wanted to make people feel intimidated. I remember growing up respecting law enforcement. They were there to protect and serve, whatever that meant. It seems to me, poloce officers are training their K9 better than the people they recruite. First, they’re confusing their guns with their tasers. Then they are shooting random people for “fear for their life .” Third, they sleeping with prostitutes. Well, that’s always been going on.Fourth, what gives them the right to break the law. Fifth, who wouldn feel safe with trigger happy, untrained police who are now trying to intimidate others.
I’ve had incidents with cops involved, and only one incident involving a cop. In my opinion, police officers should be trained the same way they train in the military. If they have to pull out any gun, regular or taser as often as you hear them accidentally shooting the innocent, then I would have to say that they are the ones at war. Putting your life on the line, sounds like war to me. Getting a way with murder sounds like war to me. Having to stand at a Starbucks to intimidate sounds like a pathetic bully to me.
The fact that Starbucks apologized only gives the authorites another reason to think they are superior. Untouchable. My parents rented out one of the rooms in our house to a police officer. We didn’t know she was one until my mother was arrested along with her union workers for trespassing during a strike protest. Which they weren’t. Anyhow, I liked the modesty of her knowing how intimidating she would be to a family of seven children and endless people coming in and our our home. Especially those seven childen being as bad as we were. Her civility gave her my adoration.
Maybe that’s what’s wrong with society, nowadays. We label, rank, bring order, give power – we either degrade or give praise when we are all the same. This who have made the most impact in life, are the ones who are dismissed from what they contributed to make a change. I’m not saying all police officers are the same everywhere, but they do a say that majory rules.