ChicksOnTheRight – Remember earlier in the week we told you about a police officer who was denied service at an Arby’s in Florida because she was in uniform (and, yes, this is the first I’ve heard that the officer was a woman or even what her name is). There’s an update to the story.
According to this, the 22-year-old manager of the Arby’s, Angel Mirabal, has been fired and the employee, 19-year-old Kenneth Davenport, has been disciplined after the national outcry over the discrimination of the police officer, 34-year-old Jennifer Martin. Martin did receive her order eventually, but she was too uncomfortable to eat it and asked for a refund.
The subject was a topic of discussion on Fox News and here is what was said (“don’t connect it to #BlackLivesMatter” – are you freaking SERIOUS??) – MORE
I read somewhere that this whole incident was basically a misunderstanding of a bad joke.
Apparently the restaurant was lunch crowd busy and short staffed. The employee who supposedly refused the officer was busy taking orders from another customer. The manager also busy, tried to lighten the situation and the officer’s frustration with the wait by saying the other employee couldn’t serve them because they were the police.
Maybe I didn’t get that exactly as it went down, but that’s basically what the now out of work and suspended employees are saying. The officer was served, but the poor attempt at humor made her uncomfortable, so she asked for a refund.
The rest is viral.
“Disciplined” MY A§$!
The A§$H*LE GOT A TWO-DAY “suspension”!!!
He deserves to be tarred and feathered
(not that you’d notice a difference from the way he looks anyway)
and run out of town.
Because…traditions!
Just a joke…uh huh.
I call BULL.
More like…”oops! I got caught! Dindu nuffin!”
Probably, but I wasn’t there.
The employees however are also quite young and working at Arbys, if it truly was an attempt at humor, well we know why they’re working at Arbys.
The cop was served and it wasn’t reluctantly, she then got worried about the quality of the food and asked for and received a refund.
“the 22-year-old manager of the Arby’s”
Did I read that right?! The fuck? 22?! (eleventy) Who, out of everyone you’ve ever known in your whole life, was a Manager Of Anything at 22. We’re talking today, remember. The “still living in moms’ basement 22 of todays’ numbskulls”.
I wouldn’t put anything from Arby’s in my mouth.
When this was put out it was, cop, Arby’s, food, wouldn’t serve.
Now it gets, “Curiouser and curiouser!”.
Hey! If you can count to 10 and add,
you’ve got MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL* at Arby’s!
* resume must not include felonies
I am a New York State Peace Officer. If someone refused to serve me a hamburger because of my law enforcement officer status, I could arrest him for failing to follow the reasonable command of an LEO, which is a crime in New York State.
Don’t know the law in Florida.
I would put Jennifer Martin in my mouth.
It’s very possible as I myself have been guilty of making a joke to lighten up spirits and some took it the wrong way particularly in this case so I’m going out on the branch to say it’s possible.
Even an apology in some cases cannot be adequate enough. While not siding with the lady cop, she could have been having just one of those days and this put her over the edge.
Later, Moms and kids protested the Arby’s and the manager called… the cops. The cops showed up with Slurpee’s for the moms and kids.
http://buzzpo.com/police-union-calls-for-arbys-boycott-cops-bring-protestors-slurpees/
And the resulting media firestorm would see you fired within a week. Not agreeing with it, but you know it’s a fact. It’s gotten to the point where if you’re in uniform, you cannot win.
He dindo nuffin’, he want to be a rap star, why would he dis a cop?
Startin’ college next year, soon he get his GED.
Safety tip. Never order food or drink from a business employing Blacks or Latinos. They hate you for being white and will spit in your food, or worse.. Make your own lunch. Don’t let yourself be poisoned or contaminated.
My list of places to dine has gotten shorter and shorter these days. Let’s see, Chipolte, Starbucks, Subway, and Arby’s is on my $hit list. I sure wish we had a Chik-a-fil here.
Ordering food is a lawful order the public must obey? Not seeing the public service aspect of it yet. Sounds like a personal endeavor.
I knew NY was f**ked up, but that is just wrong on so many levels.
What a nasty man you are! I like the way you think.
I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Kind of a conundrum no?
A reasonable command is to cook and serve your food? I used to give 50% to LEOs for years. I might get fired for not serving, but arrested?
She was probably the shift manager not the store manager. It’s quite common in the fast food industry and has been practiced for decades. I was a shift manager at Mcd”s at 19 while going to school. Worked three shifts per week.
My two cents: An officer should not pull into a fast food line in a squad car. Should something happen, you’re hemmed in. Not a good tactic on patrol. Just sayin.’ Also, guys with footlong dreadlocks, shoudn’t be serving food. Changing oil or washing cars, OK. But no food.
Man, am I ever out of touch?
First he was rude and short with her while taking the order, then said, “We don’t serve your kind here.”
Yeah, that’s hilarious and anyone’s idea of a joke.
And, OF COURSE, he apologized RIGHT AWAY.
(/s)
That would be me. Didn’t realize I was that kick-ass. Seemed normal at the time.
Tom, I’m thinking a single officer on patrol is probably going to be safer from a personal attack staying in her vehicle instead of going in to sit down.
Welcome to the OBAMA’S world of IDIOCRACY!
It was at a drive-thru. She ordered her food then when she got to the window to pay, she was told they they wouldn’t serve her.
That was not a joke.
You miss two facts:
1) I am not uniformed. I have a badge and a photo ID. Both would have to be visible for me to make an arrest.
2) I am a Peace Officer ex officio by virtue of my status as a court clerk. There’s no way I would lose the clerk job in this scenario. Worst that could happen? They’d take my badge–but I wouldn’t really care because that’s not what pays my bills; the clerk’s job does.
Oh and BTW I would also sue the living daylights out of Arby’s for practicing occupation – based discrimination.
The law reads “reasonable command.” I don’t find ordering food in a restaurant the least bit unreasonable.
Well, I certainly can’t drag the mofo into my apartment and demand he cook me a burger. But in a restaurant, where I am a paying customer? And I’m not being rude, disrespectful, drunk, or disorderly? And I showered that morning?
It’s totally reasonable.
Tommy, the same thing occurred to me. I was recalling someone’s remark here (Bad Brad maybe?) from a while back about how cumbersome it is to draw your weapon from a sitting position.
My 18yo daughter is called a “manager” of a pizza chain restaurant where she works part-time, mainly closing late-night, where she has worked since she was 16 and was also given the key to the chain of hair salons she works at as her day job since graduating in June.
“Reasonable command” means something in the appointed course of your duties. If you really can legally ‘order’ someone to make you an unmolested sandwich above and beyond the ability of an average citizen to place an order, then there is literally nothing you cannot ‘order’ any person to do.
I was the manager that did the records, buying, hiring, firing and all that.
Being a paying customer is not a part of your sworn duties.
May want to talk to legal counsel before trying it.