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.
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I am a atheist fireman/paramedic
Ok. What does that have to do with anything?
I think the comments got fucked up I was replying to a comment below.
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The police complaining about something being bigoted? Are they that blind? Or do they really only care when it effects them…
They’re not blind, they just know more forms of abuse than punching their wives.
The latter, it’s the latter.
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)
This is the worst kind of discrimination: the kind against me
The right wing very much likes twisting and using the language the left uses against them.
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.
Well first of all, I don’t want to call them because they’d shoot my dog
control your dog.
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.
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.
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.
it’s about the guns, not the cops
Honestly would be cooler if it were about the cops
Ssshh. It definitely is wink
Even Aragorn and co had to leave their weapons to enter Edoras. Gandalf was a cheeky bugger though.
“Reem’s has a deep commitment to uplifting social and racial justice in our communities,” the statement said. “This includes fostering an environment of safety for our staff and customers. In a time of increased gun violence — particularly impacting people of color, youth, and queer people — we believe that maintaining a strict policy of prohibiting guns in our restaurant keeps us safer.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Wonder if we can use this to infer something about the thin blue line, back the blue folks…
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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.
That just makes the hypocrisy even worse!
Joke incoming: gay community already accepted cops as their kind.
Or is it? Or did they?
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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!
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Fowl: bird. Foul: bad.
Though I’ll assume auto correct.
Peace!
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I don’t think the police unions supported that bakery.
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.
