Poll of the Day > Do you think that coffee shop in oakland should be able to deny service to...

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Looks like the coffee shop isn't even denying that they are, i don't think it would be legal though to say they didn't want to serve a particular race or group of people though
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"Occupation" isn't a protected class, so far as I know, so they're within their rights. It's a dick move all the same, though.
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I had to look this up. Found a quote from the coffee shop.

Last Friday February 16th a police (OPD) entered our shop and was told by one of our worker-owners that we have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves. Since then, cop supporters are trying to publicly shame us online with low reviews because this particular police visitor was Latino. He broadcasted to his network that he was refused service at a local business and now the rumblings are spreading.
We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that we are not alone saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical & emotional safety. There are those that do not share that sentiment - be it because they have a friend or relative who is a police, because they are white or have adopted the privileges whiteness affords, because they are home- or business- owning, or whatever the particular case may be. If they want to make claims about police being part of the community, or claims that race trumps the badge & gun when it comes to police, they must accept that the burden of proof for such a claim is on them. OPDs recent attempts to enlist officers of color and its short term touting of fewer officer involved shootings does not reverse or mend its history of corruption, mismanagement, and scandal, nor a legacy of blatant repression.

The facts are that poc, women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks.

For these reasons and so many more, we need the support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police. Especially in an area faced by drug sales and abuse, homelessness, and toxic masculinity as we see here on this block. We want to put this out to our communities now, in case we end up facing backlash because as we know OPD, unlike the community, has tons of resources, many of which are poured into maintaining smooth public relations to uphold power. It will be no surprise if some of those resources are steered toward discrediting us for not inviting them in as part of the community.

That place sounds like absolute cancer.
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The owners sound like they probably masturbate to AntiFa videos on YouTube, or something. I hope armed gunmen show up and these people are too proud to call the police, but they won't be. They'll be hypocritical fuckfaces.
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