S.F. bakery won't serve cops, police union claims. Store says it's about the guns, not the cops
San Francisco’s police union says a city bakery chain has a “bigoted” policy of not serving uniformed cops.
The San Francisco Police Officers Assn. wrote in a social media post last week that Reem’s California “will not serve anyone armed and in uniform” and that includes “members of the U.S. Military.” The union is demanding that the chain “own” its policy.
Reem’s says, however, its policy isn’t against serving armed police officers. It’s against allowing guns inside its businesses.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-28/san-francisco-police-union-claims-bakery-refused-to-serve-armed-officer-in-uniformOpen linkView original on lemmy.world994
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Last time I checked "Police Officer" wasn't a protected class you little snowflakes.
veteran status is though in a lot of cases so I would not be surprised if there was movement to take it in that direction
Veterans can’t bring guns wherever they want either. There’s signs on every hospital in Ohio.
I wouldn't be surprised if groups are already trying to spin stuff like that as anti veteran discrimination, although this article says "armed and in uniform" implying by that language they would serve an unarmed cop in uniform, so I guess they just have to ask everyone in uniform if they have a gun or install a metal detector if they actually want to enforce it
Or they could just guess and refuse to serve someone in a non-protected class as is their legal right.
yeah but if they want to do that they have to say "no cops" not "no cops who are currently carrying guns"
Why? They can refuse service to either. That's 100% legal.
I'm sure the cops can find a way to sue them if they don't have it explicitly written down or will show up just to intimidate them at anything lesser than being asked not to be there, but we'll see
Nothing about being a veteran requires you to carry a gun around, or even be pro-gun-ownership
That some veterans are dumb is just a result of the military not valuing intelligence in privates, and being willing to recruit anyone who can run and do pushups and pullups.
Put down the pipe, son.
They’re not banning veterans though, right? Just guns. Unless veterans are literally guns, but I know plenty of vets that don’t want open carry or unrestricted guns, so I’d say vets aren’t actually guns, and therefore aren’t restricted by this business’s policy.
It could be worse. This shop could react like police officers when someone enters a police station with a weapon.
I'd be surprised if Peter hasn't used his fingers to count.
I do arithmetic on my fingers. :(
I can count to 10 normally. 20 if I take my shoes off. 22 if I pull my pants down.
Shouldn't that be 23/24 if you pull your pants down?
24??? Dude how many dicks do you have
Actually, it is three balls
Like that chick on that movie about the three titties.
50% more balls is 100% more awesome
Why wouldn't you count the balls while you were at it? I mean, they're right there and you're counting.
That's still only 23.
Can't do math without digits.
So fucking what? Police aren't a protected class.
They're certainly not a protecTIVE class either.
Baldurs Gate 3 spoiler warning
::: spoiler Early Act 1 spoiler They're like Anders, the guy who pretends to be a paladin of Tyr, the god of justice, but is actually the willing servant of an arch-devil :::
To be fair, SCOTUS says they don't have to protect anyone.
To be even more fair though, not having to "serve and protect" like they lie about on their cars is not the same thing as not being ALLOWED TO.
They COULD choose to be decent humans who try to use their position of power to help people because it's the right thing to do rather than an obligation, but of course, that's not how a cop brain works.
Also, to be slightly less fair but no less truthful, the current scotus makes a mockery of the very concept of justice and most of them should be recalled and prosecuted for gross corruption.
They’re about to be.
They're a minority of the population so they should be.
Except it's a job not an innate, unchangeable characteristic... I honestly can't tell if you're serious or not.
Too bad for you.
So are pedophiles, what's your point?
That's the point!
My job that I chose is a minority of the population too, where is my special treatment?
We're all a protected class. Yay!!
Scanner monkey?
That's not how it works. They're not an oppressed minority, they're the oppressive tool of the political and economic elite.
Muricans and their lack of understanding irony and satire... Oh wow...
I'm actually not American and you didn't make it at all obvious to a bunch of complete strangers that you were being sarcastic rather than an idiot 🤷
Those type of people would rather blame it on others than themselves at all times
Yup. I have a younger brother who's like that. Gets pretty damn exhausting tbh..
Got an older one like that. But it reflects on his personality as a whole. He’s always a victim and yeah… I could go on but I agree. It’s exhausting
Being gay and being a cop are not at all the same. One is a sexual orientation and one is a job. Cops chose their job.
The point they made enhances yours. Yes it is hypocritical, but is arguably worse on the conservatives' part since sexual orientation is something you're born with.
They don't believe you're born with it.
Thanks for explaining - yes I misunderstood and thought you were saying that those who were mad a bakery refused to serve gay people shouldn’t try to ban anyone else from their own stores. Sorry about that and thanks for explaining!
Fowl: bird. Foul: bad.
Though I'll assume auto correct.
Peace!
That just makes the hypocrisy even worse!
Joke incoming: gay community already accepted cops as their kind.
Or is it? Or did they?
Honestly would be cooler if it were about the cops
Ssshh. It definitely is wink
Even if it were a policy against serving cops, didn't the Supreme Court literally just rule that a business can deny any group?
If you can refuse to serve gay people, you can refuse to serve cops. This shit goes both ways.
Yes because homosexuals could just leave their gay in their car amirite
Right.. why do they have to exist in public.. /s 🧐🤔😭
True, but court would claim the previous ruling was focused on contracted custom services and freedom of speech.
It would be pretty easy for them to craft an argument in favor of letting the cops in, as hypocritical as it may be.
this is what being conservative is all about. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
So then the Masterpiece Cake Shop ruling, maybe.
That one might apply better. Same outcome.
For some more context this place, reems, really isn't a bakery so much as a middle eastern take out place. The main store is currently closed down though so the only place they have open is a counter serve food court style place in the ferry building, so the cops didn't get kicked out of the place, they either went to the counter and the cashier refused to serve, or more likely, they saw the new policy online and threw a hissy fit without actually going.
The founder is a Palestinian leftist, so this probably was targeted towards cops/military.
I'd highly recommend going here if your on a tourist trip and end up in the ferry building, not just for the cop hate, but there wraps are great as well.
Oh no. A leftist!
Yeah, we're so damn scary!
Why are you a pacifist? All rights are won through violence.
Because I don't believe that might makes right. I believe that we can be better than our primitive and murderous ancestors and we owe it to each other to at least try.
As for your assertion on the origins of rights, that's absolute bullshit. The vast majority of worker's and other civil rights have been won via peaceful protest.
You've actually got it backwards: TAKING AWAY rights always happens through violence. That's what it's for: enforcing your will on those you are unable or unwilling to convince by civilized means.
Can you actually name which rights we've won via peaceful protests?
Can you get to your real point? What do you want?
Ghandi is the only one that comes to mind. And in Bill Wurtz's "The History of everything, I guess" video he even says "wait, that worked?!?"
That would be the right for the Indian people to self govern.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but since I've never heard of a Jamaican Revolution, so I'm guessing they also won their independence without bloodshed.
LGBTQ rights I feel like have made huge strides without violence. There was the Stonewall riots, of course, but since then most of the rights have been achieved mostly through normalization and exposure through pop culture and stuff like that. Of course, some people are trying to rewind those, but conservatives are like that with all rights that aren't specifically for white men.
I was with you right up until this historical revisionism. I'm a Baha'i and we are pacifists. But. If there is a threat to the community, we will start with words and diplomacy, and will end where we need to, to ensure the unity and safety of our communities.
This is so disingenuous.
The history of society is the history of class struggle. Those rights were earned through struggle, not through asking nicely.
By peaceful protest I didn't mean asking nicely. I meant being loud, getting in the way, generally making life miserable for the oppressors until they give in without sinking to their level.
Non-violent is a much better term for it tbh, should have used that instead.
Good, normalize rejecting cops.
I've walked out of a restaurant when 4 cops rolled in.
Bring on the down votes but my opinion is this will only make things worse. I think people should judge the police on a officer to officer basis. I work in public service and the majority of cops are really decent people who are trying to help. There are always bad seeds. Even if a cop is on a power trip if you ask them they will help you.
In my opinion the biggest problem w the police isn’t the officers it’s the training and culture. They have their hands tied w ridiculous use of force policies and almost no training. But bring on the hate and call me a fascist.
Edit: biblical service to public service. Jesus has no place in these streets.
It's hard for me to judge them individually cop to cop because literally EVERY.SINGLE.ENCOUNTER I have EVER had with a cop has been a negative experience at best. Every single one. I'm not going to hate on you or call you fascist. Just pointing out it's like saying I've never met THIS wasp before, maybe I shouldn't judge it unless it stings me! Then surprise motherfucker you got stung, whodathunkit.
Fucking bullshit, sorry but not sorry, but you're delusional man. And I'm a 40yo professional white guy in the suburbs! My god, I can't even imagine being black from the hood.
Watch some Police Audit videos. About one out of 10, a cop does something spectacularly good (or at least not horrible). Once, they even arrested another cop on the scene because the other cop crossed from "merely bullying" to outright criminal behavior.
The other 9 out of 10 are disgusting and disappointing. So your view of them sure isn't far off reality.
Too little too late.
Not everyone lives in the US. I've been working with coppers my whole adult life and have had one bad experience. They're good people.
Unless you think every cop is a nazi then you get downvoted to hell… feels like old Reddit… good to be home.
From one white suburban 40 year old to another I understand what you’re saying and as I said before I have met plenty of wasps. I guess what I am trying to get across is that blanket hate for cops isn’t the answer. It’s a very hard job that they are not trained to do and it does attract assholes. But every encounter I have with a cop I start out just being friendly and the majority of the time they are friendly back. Also well aware of my white 6’2” privilege when dealing with them.
Sounds like survivorship bias.
Hard to really have a conversation about it when this is how it goes every time.
White suburban 40 year old that works public service in mixed cities with large populations of poor black white and Latino communities so I don’t live in a bubble. Most cops I work alongside seem to treat decent people decently. Again there have been some bad apples but it’s a work in progress.
I think you've misunderstood what I meant. You are a white, suburban 40 year old. Your demographic does not get targeted with police brutality, so it's no surprise that cops treat you well. It's a form of bias called survivorship bias.
No I understood what you said and I agree with you. I am aware that I get treated differently. However I have noticed that a lot of the younger cops that I see interact with minority populations much better than older “salty” cops and they gives me hope. There are real assholes too, my hope is things get better. Because I see the cops treat scumbag white people the same way they treat scumbag black people.
Finish that phrase. Here, I'll start it for you "A few bad apples ruin...". Any time someone uses the phrase "a few bad apples" and then can't point to where those bad apples have been purged with extreme prejudice, they're just illustrating how broken things are and why police need to be abolished and replaced in-mass with a new police force that's designed for actually helping people with proper checks in place to permanently and aggressively deal with those that abuse their positions.
The tradeoff for police getting special powers should be that when they use those powers to violate peoples rights, the weight of the law should come down on them like a ton of bricks. If a cop commits a crime, they should have a MINIMUM of 10 times the sentence a non-cop would get. Cop assaults someone and that's normally 6 months in jail? Cop should get 5 years in jail. Cop murders someone and normally you'd get 5 years? Cop gets 50 years. If there were extremely harsh punishments cops would be a hell of a lot less likely to abuse their positions. You also need to fix the incestuous relationship between police and prosecutors. There should be an independent department purely dedicated to arresting and prosecuting police for crimes.
I like the idea of a new police force but what you are describing sounds like inanity. You had me until you make the punishments 10x the crime. What happens when someone make a honest mistake? Because they had a off day their lives are ruined. Even in this fantasy where the constitution no longer exists who would sign up for that job? You will have to pay $500k a year and have genius lawyer monks doing the job.
You need to talk to some other people about their experiences with cops. I look like you, but i'm autistic, so I can't act like you. Police constantly think i'm lying/hiding something/acting guilty because they're taught to interpret the way I interact because of a developmental disorder as criminal behavior. Then, if they push us into a meltdown by intimidating the hell out of us, because they assume we're criminals, we get beaten and arrested or shot.
You seriously need to think more about how your position in life and outward appearance actually affects the way the world interacts with you. Things aren't just harder for some people. They're completely different, and these institutions are supposed to exist for all of us. f you understood what it was like to interact with the police as an autistic man or a black man, you would not be defending the police.
That sucks man and I hate that that happens to you. I am not beating my chest for every cop but not all are animals and until people stop being awful to each other they are needed. I try to de escalate every scene I am on when I feel the cops are being assholes. Their job is almost impossible and unfortunately it attracts douche bags but also there are some great cops.
Unless and until they start following section 1983 of the federal code, as was written and passed by Congress not as was illegally revised in 1874 by one person that had no authority to do so, they are all criminals and deserve nothing but scorn.
This only applies to the thugs with badges in the US. It may not apply to your utopian police department.
So you won’t call them if someone steals your car or assaults you?
Hell no, that's only going to make things worse. First police won't do anything if something is stolen, so that's just wasting your time. As for assaulting you, there's a good chance that's going to end up with the cop beating you up instead. You're better off asking for help from some random passer by, there's a better chance they'll actually help. If my house is on fire I'll call the fire department. If I'm having a medical emergency I'll call an ambulance. If crime of some kind is happening you deal with it yourself because the cops will either do nothing or make it worse.
Yes seriously, only thing cops are good for is the paper trail for insurance. Call them while you're being assaulted and they'll probably just join in the fray.
You know every time I've had something stolen and filed a police report I have not even once had my stolen shit returned. They don't even call back after weeks to say "hey we didn't care enough to follow any leads, good luck".
And yet they take every fucking chance they can to write my as many moving violations as possible, whether or not they apply.
The police don't serve the people, never have.
That’s on the system not the individual officer.
Fuck the officer for going along with it. They can quit and find a different job that doesn't make them out to be a piece of shit like the rest of us. Nobody forces them to become a cop, but by choosing to become one, they've branded themselves as part of that fucked up system. That's on them. ACAB
Cool let’s not have cops
Considering studies show dollar-for-dollar we can effectively do what good police do by putting their budget money in other services (mental health, welfare, etc), I'm ok with having a LOT fewer cops with a lot more limited mandate.
So this way not only will petty crimes not get solved but the bigger crimes will also go unsolved.
Now you're getting it
Your inability to see your selection bias and account for it (while claiming to do just that) is beyond staggering.
Like... you're saying the words, but then your overall takeaway proves that despite what you're saying, you have no concept of reality beyond your own lived experience and world view.
I'm not in the ACAB/Defund camp either by any means, but you should either learn to truly acknowledge your bias (and not just pay it lip service), or just fucking own it and stop pretending to have a nuanced and enlightened opinion.
Like...don't try to make yourself sound like you're speaking from any sort of well reasoned position that accounts for the limitations of personal experience and acknowledges the experience of others. Just say, "Hey, the vast majority of cops I've interacted with, I've had no problem with. Therefore I think most cops everywhere are decent people and the tiny fraction that aren't are just an unfortunate and unavoidable, but ultimately acceptable exception that is worth it in exchange for the services police forces as a whole provide for society."
Because that's literally what you're saying.
You're a white guy working and interacting with these cops in a religiously charged setting that already puts you in familiar and friendly territory with them in terms of ideology, race, and gender. These are three huge factors that are all coloring the interaction, and given the closely intertwined threads of American right wing politics with police, religion, race, and gender, every single interaction you've had with them benefits from being on their side in all the major categories that matter. With that frame of reference, you cannot possibly (at least while maintaining intellectual honesty) use your own personal experience as being at all broadly representative of that of the average person in the general public.
It's like showing up to game day in the home team's city wearing the home team's colors and singing the home team's fight song...and then the next day when you see a story about how many of those fans you met were harassing and assaulting fans of the other team, your response is, "Well I interacted with dozens of those fans and they were all really nice to me. Since I have real experience with them, that proves that they're nice people who would never do those bad things. Must have just been 1% of bad apples. But overall, there's no problem with bad fans since they were all nice to me."
I was with you until about here. I've seen cops shoo away people in need rather than even deign to give directions. I would say the majority I've seen have been very unhelpful and the encounters that have been nice or cordial have been the extreme minority. It's like their default is power trip mode.
Correct.
Yea I was too broad there when I said that However in my own experience I have seen even SOME -asshole cops be helpful.
I think that part of the problem with your response, not just biblical vs public service, is that it is a bias based on your own experience.
Like the rest of us, the police are overworked, and it is reasonable to expect that they feel pressure to act and do, not to take time to reason and consider. For an office worker, they might get angry and have a short fuse. For an officer, that might have dire consequences.
What purpose do the police serve? In my youth, they helped get baby kittens down from trees. The officer with the glowing smile would hand the kitten to the little girl who needed help. The highly legible and large typeface said "Cop gave cat." Factual and warming.
This isn't the interaction I usually have and it isn't the interaction I've heard others have. Was Timmy and Suzy's Big Day wrong? Consider the difference between The Andy Griffith Show and Dragnet. It's a big difference when you know the people you are there to "Protect and Serve," but reality is considerably different for most.
On the other side of things, you have folks that have been underprivileged from the crib. Social pressures indirectly, if not sometimes directly, perpetuate their plight. It instills anger and a general distrust.
Now mix those groups together.
Grouped by association is going to be the outcome unless people recognize their biases and actively try to work outside that. It means recognizing how your experience might not be shared amongst others. That's all anyone is asking.
Yea man I typoed biblical it was supposed to be just public service I don’t believe in god or the Bible.
Damn you sure are painting with a broad brush. I have been replying to a lot of comments so if you read this reply in another comment sorry. I agree that the police need reform and I agree that it attracts a lot of the wrong type of people. I think their training is lacking in use of force and de escalation tactics. I think they should have more than 2 hrs a year of grappling training and a lot of departments are moving in the right direction.
I am sorry you have only had dealings with asshole cops because I know a lot of really good ones. Have a great day.
Everyone knows a "good" cop. And every one of those good cops has covered up for a bad cop. Which, by default, means there are no "good" cops.
And then the corollary; Every so often, there's a good cop that has stood up to their bad cop neighbors, calling them out publicly for evidence tampering and racial profiling. And then the union kicks them out - making them a good person, but no longer a good cop.
They do their own filtering. Hence ACAB.
I agree with you there too the cops need another layer especially for behavioral or psychological calls. But that’s a training and budget issue. Also I have been to so many crisis intervention calls as a paramedic and was thankful the cops were there because they patted down the pt and they had either a gun or a knife on them. Every municipality is complaining about their budget so I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for trained social workers thst want to respond to the shelter or nursing home at 4 am for the psych.
How many of the "good cops" turn in the bad cops? Oh none you say..... Well you might want to do a recount of good cops then.
Y'all remember when NYPD in its entirety said that old man fell during those protests a few years back?
Then videos got released.
Judging cops on a department by department basis saves paper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So you're saying the system is broken? Well, that sounds like something we can agree on then. The police force is broken, needs to be torn down back to its foundations and rebuilt. Every time something happens with police you always get the same response "It's just a few bad apples", conveniently leaving out the rest of that phrase "that ruin the bunch". Well, those bad apples have been left too long, and it ruined all of them. There are only two kinds of cops, the bad apples, and the ruined apples, both need to be thrown out. We need to abolish the current police and replace them with a uncorrupted version, the rot has set in too far in the existing police force, there's no salvaging it.
When did I say none?
Oh. Ok. Anyway, moving on.
It’s a typo I meant to write public service but I have been responding so much I can’t even find the comment to edit it.
Well, that's easily one of the most unfortunate typos you could have made here lmao
Lol no shit RIP my comment karma too, feels like Reddit.
That's sorta the point that people generally have issues with cops dude. It's the overall culture of shielding of each other from consequences, stoking a "everyone is your enemy"/warrior mentality among officers, bad or lack of training leading to unneeded violent escalation etc.
It's been police departments dragging their heels and throwing tantrums on addressing these issues that have what caused people's dislike of them to grow.
I'll throw my support behind cops who are standing up to the bullshit.
But they are usually fired (or worse), which means the people I'm supporting... aren't cops anymore
Yea I have been saying that the entire time and getting downvoted to hell. My opinion is one of the big problems are cops don’t think of themselves as part of the community so by kicking them out of restaurants will only make them feel like less of a part of the community. I am done responding to these comments everyone seems to be a expert lawyer and city planner that has extensive experience dealing w the public.
I would say they don't feel part of the community because they are the enforcement behind alienation under capitalism. If everyone has housing, security, fair trials, etc then people wouldn't perceive them as part of an alienating force.
A good officer will have no problem respecting a bakery's no-firearms policy.
It's fine to have a different opinion and you shouldn't be downvoted. If you've had that experience of them it's perfectly valid. There's just a lot of cops who are secret white supremacists who get outed routinely and that's genuinely scary. Cops should get a lot more education than they do in the US.
I 100% agree I have met and delt with so many really shitty cops in my own time. Then factor in the 1% that are real monsters and I understand the way people feel. I train Jiu Jitsu with some amazing cops that are really trying to be better for their community and themselves. I am just defensive after reading all the comments.
https://sites.temple.edu/klugman/2020/07/20/do-40-of-police-families-experience-domestic-violence/
Again preaching to the choir over worked and riddled w PTSD obviously the result is domestic violence and other unsafe behaviors. I mean the 1% monsters like this fellow. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44402948
It's only 1% when you ignore the domestic violence.
1% monsters like Jenkins 40% that beat their families can and should fuck themselves. I am referring to the corruption and actively destroying the communities they work in not just home life.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt because if you don't they will punish you isn't really giving them the benefit of the doubt, it is a backhanded acknowledgement that if they are not collectively appeased and given unwarranted grace, they will behave badly.
That's not an argument that they're not bullies, it sounds like an acknowledgement that they're bullies and it would be better to appease them
After the amadou diallo shooting the NYPD knee jerk response was to increase the trigger pull pressure of their pistols so it would be harder to pull the trigger. So instead of better training and use of force tactics they just made it harder to shoot. And that in turn makes it easier to miss and hit bystanders. A perfect example of the terrible policy to breeds bad cops.
It's wholly within their rights to refuse service to anyone for any reason. I hope they stick to their.. well, I guess "stick to their guns" doesn't really work here but whatever.
If they are a public facing business, they are not within their rights to refuse service to anyone for any reason. There are protected classes, like age/race/sexuality. So if you own a business like a coffee shop, you can't say "no black people." However, police and guns are not protected classes, so I think they should be in the clear legally.
What happened to the supreme court cases that said it's ok to discriminate against protected classes as long as it just so happens to be "against your religion"
"against your Christian religion". Fixed that for you.
The Supreme Court decision was a very narrow decision based on how the commission treated the business owner, not a broad decision on free exercise vs protected class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission
Of course. They're patient. They chipped away at abortion for decades before finally getting it overturned in Dobbs.
Similarly they went from Masterpiece Cake Shop to the Creative LLC case which widened the exception further because it's a "creative endeavor". Don't for a minute think they're not queing up a case to deny medical services based on a "sincerely held religious beliefs".
Unfortunately that isn't true. Businesses have a right to refuse service for a wide variety of reasons. Like you said though those protected classes are illegal to discriminate against.
That is why you can have rules, like "no shirt no shoes no service". So in this case it is if you bring a gun you will be asked to leave.
Although now if that store was ever a victim of a robbery I would bet the response time is very slow....
Nooo I'm sure the police are very honorable men and women who would never retaliate against anyone for any reason.
They would certainly never accept bribes for any reason, or destroy evidence, or beblatantly racist.
No no no these are honorable men
So you're saying people who become cops aren't interested in the public good and are more interested in power?
Well I never!
It's not like police departments give a shit about robbery anyway. They take a report and tell you to call insurance. Better off with a guy with a gun.
Fun fact, if they can prove the police deliberately delayed their response that's a massive lawsuit.
You still gotta convince the city and then who are you really hurting? If the cops had to pay lawsuits out of the FOP pension fund maybe that would matter. If you sue the city you're only hurting your neighbors and yourself.
Payments for those things shouldn't come out of public funds, cops should individually be required to carry malpractice insurance. Cop gets found guilty of violating someones rights? Settlement gets paid by their insurance. I bet you'd see all those "bad apples" suddenly being utterly unemployable once they literally can't find anyone willing to insure their scumbag asses.
Forcing cops to carry the equivalent of malpractice insurance would be a great step.
If.
Biggest if.
Also the distinction is "no uniforms, no guns" off duty police are still served. It's actually a little closer to "no shoes, no shirt, no service".
As listed in the article some of the employees and regular customers come from war-torn places or have histories of traumatic interactions with police. Hence the ban comes from a place of limiting PTSD reactions.
"Stick to their buns" I guess?
...McCray said somehow without even a hint of irony.
Hey now, cops aren't all bad. I mean 60% of police wouldn't be caught beating their wives.
60% of chips didn't admit to it, that 40% was a self reported number so 40% were dumb enough to see "do you beat your spouse" and went "uhh duh...yep, everyday!
Congratulations, you found the joke behind me choosing such a specific wording.
Here is a fun fact, they actually ruled that it is constitutional for a police officer to have IQ requirements in hiring out of concern that someone who did not meet the requirement would not obey orders or may have questions about certain orders.
This sounds reasonable except I'm not talking about the IQ being too low, I'm talking about the IQ being too high, some departments will actually limit people from being police officers if they test too high on an aptitude test.
If cops want the bakery to "own" their policy, they they should own their policy of racial profiling
They don’t want guns on their property. It’s pretty simple. They have the right to restrict guns on their property.
Calling them ‘bigots’ and ‘discriminatory’ is disgusting, because those words mean hating people for inherent qualities that can’t be changed, like skin colour. You can leave your gun and uniform behind and poof you magically aren’t in the ‘discriminated’ group.
Black people can’t leave their skin in their car. See the difference? No? Then you might be a bigot.
e: anonymous downvoters, don’t be a pussy, reply please. That’s the whole point of this forum. Engage or gtfo.
The police complaining about something being bigoted? Are they that blind? Or do they really only care when it effects them...
This is the worst kind of discrimination: the kind against me
The latter, it's the latter.
They're not blind, they just know more forms of abuse than punching their wives.
The right wing very much likes twisting and using the language the left uses against them.
Aa the ban only applies to uniformed and armed cops and not plain clothed off duty ones they seem to be more outraged by the lack of convenience.
They seem to have wheeled out their Victorian fainting couch over the barest hint of being told to respect a PTSD trigger safe space for people who have been terrorized by uniformed and armed people. Oh the bigotry! (snerk)
"Sorry, we don't support that lifestyle"
Thanks for the chuckle.
Even Aragorn and co had to leave their weapons to enter Edoras. Gandalf was a cheeky bugger though.
Police in SF are showin up?
To eat in a bakery? Sure.
If you didn't want to be a bastard, you shouldn't have been a cop.
In a city where you can’t park your car in the street without the window being smashed or have a business without having homeless harass your customers I thought that you might want to be nice to the cops but I guess I am wrong.
Assuming you're speaking from loved experience and not what you heard on Fox News, what do the cops actually do about any of that? They might mosey along and murder the homeless person eventually but they're not gonna stop someone from smashing your window. Most likely case is they just won't respond at all.
Do you live in SF? Everyone I talk to thst lives there tells me that’s how it is. I don’t watch Fox News you can’t deny that city is in a crisis. I think the police as a institution needs a overhaul but you don’t do that by squeezing them out or spitting at them. That will only guarantee you get the wrong people applying for the job.
Aren’t police unions among those who back politicians that fight tooth and nail for businesses to adhere to their values? I should think that Reem’s would have their full-throated support for refusing service to those who offend their beliefs. I’m so confused.
/smh
Well here's one civil right the cops can't easily ignore. If an undercover buys a donut is that covered by qualified immunity?
It would not be required as off duty cops or non-visble ones are allowed. The ban is only on uniforms and guns which makes sense given thw article states some of the employees and regular clientele come from war torn places or have PTSD triggers around uniformed officers.
Ostracize pigs they are a drain on society. Acab
Should this be an "or" statement? Showing up naked with a gun would pass this logic.
In SF, open carrying by non-law-enforcement is illegal anyway.
CCW is legal with a license.
You can conceal carry while naked; it's just unwise and uncomfortable.
Nature's holster.
while getting a license in the city is theoretically possible, it is basically impossible
Friends of cops can get CCW licenses tho.
That I did not know
[Weird, sarcastic joke] Uniform? But what about the fire department?! Oh wait, they don't carry guns for some reason. Woah, does that mean they don't just show up and gun people down? That's a neat idea, I like that. Maybe more uniformed services should be like that.
[Song reference] But still, fuck the fire department. Dropping by unannounced just to fry your apartment...
That's preferred, actually, gives them a nice peg to hang the donuts on.
They're cops, you'll be lucky to fit a single doughnut.
What exactly do you think they're going to a bakery for? Birthday cakes?
Are you suggesting the doughnuts will make their penises larger? Because you might be technically right, but I still don't think you'll gain enough to fit a second doughnut.
I think they intended to include people in uniform but unarmed
Well if the police union said it it's probably a lie anyhow.
Let's be honest, this is absolutely directed at police. Sure, it bans all people with guns but 99% of the people coming in there with them will be the police.
That said, they are free to do that. I think it is a little shitty but that's up to them.
Police are a little shitty, but that's up to them too.
Cops are massively shitty.
I mean, maybe it's just me but I don't like to make sweeping statements about large groups of people. I get it's the thing to do, shit on cops, but all it does is make the few good ones callus and bitter and turn bad. I've seen this with a friend on the force first hand. Most seem like asses TBH but mindsets like this turn the rest who are good shitty too. They feel like everyone hates them but the other asshole cops, so guess what they become...
That's a broken apologist argument. It's not “a couple of bad cops”, the problem is systemic. The system is meant to create assholes and protect assholes and to drive out anyone who isn't an asshole. Blue line and all that. There are no good or bad cops, there are only perpetrators and enablers.
I never said a couple of bad cops, I actually called out that the good ones are the minority. This is the problem, people view something complex like this as black and white when it isn't.
That's a piss poor take. When good cops tell on bad cops, they get kicked out of the force and the PD harass them. There's been countless cases of that. The institution is rotten to the core and any person that stays in that long enough becomes rotten.
This is what people need to understand and accept as reality.
Ok, and I think yours is a piss poor take. Someone can want to do good and try to make a difference. You're saying no one ever can so let's just demonize the lot. Change doesn't happen that way.
At one point, the system is so rotten that it needs to be reconstructed from the ground up.
As we've seen with so many PDs, corruption is rampant and the PDs actively discourage going against the club.
Any change proposed to reign in the PDs is met with extreme resistance.
And that's not mentioning that many PDs have close ties to racist groups.
I get that some people enter to make a difference, but those that really do want to change the police for the better get chewed out by their own. The other that stay turn a blind eye and are not really trying to make a difference anymore
There is no goodwill coming from PDs. Always some dumb platitudes with no real changes.
You seem to be trying to convince me that the system is broken, I already agree with that. But you're claiming to know exactly how everything plays out when a person tries to be a good cop. You claim to know exactly how that goes, every time. What makes you so confident, what information do you have? We're you a cop?
I'm saying there is still the possibility for a cop to join and want to do good. Hate cops all you want, but a few have done good things, a few have helped people. We need to go after bad cops, of course, and try to fix the broken system. But at the same time we can't ignore the ones who actually do good, that behavior should be encouraged, not shat on.
Both can be true.
If they're good people... they wouldn't be cops. You have to compromise being a good person every day to remain there
I know plenty of ex cops who were chased out or quit in disgust. The system is rotten
Yes, but good people are needed to fix it. And attacking that good people turns them sour.
Listen I think the system is broken, but if someone is trying to make a change from the inside, they would need to be a cop to do that.
... no such thing as a good cop
There are people who agree with you who don't have the patience to deal with militant teens. Thanks for commenting some sanity.
Yeah I'm dealing with it right now. It's easier to hate than it is to understand.
ACAB
As a non-American trying to understand, why do you feel this policy is a little shitty?
Well, if you are not from America you can look at Russian police, that beats protesting students, pregnant mothers and kills jogging programmers. And all of this in the Moscow, I'm not even saying what happens in regions.
What does that have to do with an American bakery’s gun policy?
What does perception of police to do with an American bakery’s gun policy?
Besides US cops doing all of that and worse on a depressingly regular basis, what does Russian police behaviour have to do with the decision to ban guns in a shop in the US?
I don't want anybody bringing a weapon into my business either, especially guns as they're the most wildly dangerous kind, and I don't care who is carrying it. Cops are as likely to kick off and shoot someone as the next person, better to keep all weapons far, far away from my business.
If you're a cop and you want to buy something from my business, you're perfectly welcome, but you'll have to leave your gun somewhere else.
I am not a gun nut or anything, but I'm pretty sure those signs are useless. Not only do most people conceal carry, but any robber or shooter coming to your business to actually use a weapon is not going to be deterred by a no guns allowed sign.
It may stop one or two open carry dummies from using your business. Also, cops, obviously. That might be enough of a reason to put the sign up, still. I'd probably just put up a no cops allowed sign.
I was answering why police perceived shitty, but you answered it better and in US context.
Just waiting for an entrepreneur to set up a table and operate a gun check service.
"Just hand your service weapon over to me, officer, and you can head right in. That will be one dollarbuck."
I'm sure police would be very comfortable giving their gun to a stranger for money instead of putting it in their trunk.
The trunk you say....
It's not shitty at all. What a stupid sentiment to hold.
normalize rejecting pigs.
SF recently allowed concealed carry.
"Sorry Madam/Sir, I assume you have a weapon on your person. That is against our policy. We cannot serve you. Please leave the premises."
How about if the union 'owns' that they are murderous bastards that consider themselves above accountability?
Good.
Ok. What does that have to do with anything?
I think the comments got fucked up I was replying to a comment below.
Maybe a better move would be to not serve any gun owner whatsoever. It's their business, do what you like.
That's exactly what they're doing. Did you not read beyond the title?
Sure I did...then expanded on what they are doing, joking that they have the right to limit their customer base, and the $ it brings if they choose to. Doesn't sound like good business to me, but hey, their choice.
Love all the ACAB comments here. If you're all anti-gun and anti-cop, who do you call when someone is in harms way, including yourself? You all talk a big game until that game is on your doorstep.
It's less anti cop, more extreme disagreement with how our policing system currently works. The lack of training, the insanely wide degree of responsibilities, the lack of accountability, etc.. They effectively function as a state sanctioned gang.
Yes, if I end up in a dangerous situation and need a person with a gun to help, I will begrudgingly call the police (and pray they don't shoot my dog) because that's the option we have. That doesn't mean I don't completely disagree with and want to change that system.
ending qualified immunity would do wonders for accountability IMO.
Well first of all, I don't want to call them because they'd shoot my dog
control your dog.
Why even say this out loud?
The whole world is going to shit, and these people are useful idiots. Maintain your weapons, and when the need arises, secure food and resources from them.
agree.
By "harms way" do you mean attacked, or other?
I mean any time you'd normally call the police. A lot of the ACAB people talk a big game until they are faced with a situation where normal people would call the police for help. Personally, I'm all for personal protection. Train yourself and learn how to use self defence and firearms. Don't put yourself in sketchy situations. of course that's not always possible, but thats why you train. for that one in a million time.
Sounds like a good target for a robbery, cause you know the police will take their time getting there.
A childish reaction I totally expect from this corrupt gang.
Sounds like we shouldn't have those police.
No military eh?
Guess I won't be eating there.
Also, with very few exceptions... you won't find armed military people walking around in the civilian area.... so, the rule against armed people is illegitimate here.
I mean, it shouldn't be an issue then. The point is they won't allow armed people in, no matter why they're armed. They don't care if you're a cop or military off duty with no weapons. This is just the union trying to spin it as anti-military/cop. I bet you anything the questions went something like
Nobody armed?
Nope.
Not even military?
Yup.
If you want to wear a little tinfoil, one might suspect they asked it like that just for the excuse to paint them as such.
99% of military walking around are not armed, in fact it would be particularly odd to see anyone but military police walking around armed. Like to the point if I saw that I'd call the military police. Especially off base.
I'm military and I support the decision to not serve us in uniform. I think it's probably a little misguided since most of us are office drones same as anyone else, but it's his store and I wasn't born in the military, it was my choice* to join.
*I wanted healthcare and to pay for college.
The cop said that their policy is to not serve uniformed military, not the bakery. The bakery claims it has nothing to do with being a uniformed officer or military personal, they just dont allow firearms in the building.
Military NEVER, and I mean fucking NEVER take service weapons off base unless they are going to fucking WAR.
Yup. That's basically what I was trying to say.
Guess who just got themselves put on the "do not respond to emergency calls" list?
Side note:
It's San Francisco. Aren't police the only ones allowed to open carry there? So it's just a de facto ban on cops.
Edit: gotta say, I'm confused about the downvotes. I'm pointing out that the police are likely to retaliate. Did I say something that gives the impression I'm condoning that?
Oh no!!!! Who will come and take a report and do nothing after they get robbed?!?!
They won't do nothing, that's slander.
They'll shoot your dog while they're already in the neighbourhood, and that is objectively something.
That's probably for the best.
If they call the cops and they show up, they're far more likely to get shot themselves.
If they would leave people to die in an emergency over donuts then they're disgusting human beings who don't deserve anyone's time of day anyway.
They won't leave people to die! That would be terrible! They'll just shoot the criminals, the victims, a few bystanders and any dogs they happen to see on the way.
And then laugh and joke about how fun it was to get to shoot their "toys"
Sounds like cops are allowed if they leave their guns behind, so it's not a ban on cops at all, just cops who insist on carrying their gun more than they keep their body cameras on.
They're not allowed to do that while on duty.
EDIT: For those down voting, to be clear I don't disagree with the sentiment, just providing facts to a comment.
Shop off duty
Yeah I'm not allowed to eat at a bakery while working either. Tough shit.
Do they need to eat at a bakery while 'on duty?'
Sounds like not the cafe's problem. The police department could change the rules if they want cops to be able to interact with ordinary people as semi-equals.
Oh no! Anyway...
It's not like they prevent crime, they show up afterwards, take a report and then you never hear from them again. If you're unlucky, they show up, get spooked, shoot you and lie on the report and still never do anything to help you. What exactly are you missing by having them never show up?
Bro everyone everywhere is on that list. Cops don't do anything unless they're forced to or they get to RP Bad Boys
Imagine if those cops were gay! They wouldn't be able to get donuts anywhere!
There should be a law that says for each type of business in a region (e.g. donuts and coffee) you cannot introduce new discrimination that is already done by another establishment -- that way cops will always have at least one place to go.
There it is.
Stupidest thing I've read today.
I'm still learning to do irony on the internet. Please bear with me.
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Poes law
Always close your sarcasm tags.
It was obvious sarcasm, but some peoples brains don't work.
Sexuality is a protected class. Being a cop and carrying a gun are not.
Discrimination is entirely legal when it's not against a protected class.
Guns don't have a sexual or gender identity nitwit.
Lies. https://i.redd.it/sqi3o87vgtn51.jpg
Dead link.
Thanks. Fixed.