Current Events > The cops who drank those milkshakes never even got sick

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https://nypost.com/2020/06/22/how-nypd-faked-shake-shack-controversy-and-conspiracy-theory/

The three cops at the center of the NYPD milkshake poisoning scandal never even got sick, and there wasnt the slightest whiff of criminality from the get-go but that didnt stop gung-ho brass from rolling out the crime scene tape and unions from dishing out empty conspiracy theories, The Post has learned.

The fullest picture yet to emerge of the incident which came amid fraught tensions between the police and public is based on records and multiple interviews with police sources.

The three officers were down from The Bronx, on protest duty in Lower Manhattan, on June 15 when they ordered the now-infamous mid-shift treats via a mobile app around 7:30 p.m., purchasing three shakes across two separate orders, sources said.

Their drinks were waiting for them when they arrived at the Shake Shack on the second floor of 200 Broadway a few minutes later. A female officer picked up her strawberry shake from the front counter, and her two male colleagues grabbed their cherry and vanilla drinks from a side counter, sources said.

Police sources explained it was clear that the workers couldnt have known cops had placed the orders since it wasnt done in person and they couldnt have dosed the drinks after the officers arrived, because they were packaged and waiting for pickup when the trio walked in.

Soon after sipping the shakes, however, the cops realized they didnt taste or smell right, so they threw the drinks in the trash and alerted a manager, who apologized and issued them vouchers for free food or drink, which they accepted, according to sources.

But when the cops told their sergeant about the incident, the supervisor called in the Emergency Service Unit to set up a crime scene at the fast-food joint for an evidence search around 9:20 p.m. nearly two hours after they first got the sour shakes.

The three were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where they were examined and released without ever showing symptoms, sources said.

The Shake Shack in the Fulton Street transit hub
The Shake Shack in the Fulton Street transit hubWilliam Farrington
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Meanwhile, a lieutenant from the Bronx blasted out an email to the unions that six cops started throwing up after drinking beverages they got from shake shack on 200 Broadway.

It was unclear why the sergeant and lieutenant escalated the situation.

Detectives easily closed the case after interviewing five employees and reviewing surveillance footage showing the shakes were made normally, sources said.

The machine was cleaned before the officers ordered, according to sources, and it still contained residual milkstone remover a typically acidic solution used to combat buildup in dairy equipment.

But by 10:45 p.m., the Detectives Endowment Association was declaring that Finest had become ill after being intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack as Police Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch made a show of visiting Bellevue while his union declared at 10:47 p.m. that police officers came under attack from a toxic substance, believed to be bleach.

Both messages flurried across social media, spawning a trending #BoycottShakeShack hashtag that was still being tweeted Sunday by users who appear to erroneously believe NYPD members were intentionally poisoned.

Around 3 a.m. June 16, the department was reviewing a statement on the matter, and at 4 a.m. just over eight hours after the cops picked up their shakes Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced on Twitter that there was no criminality.

The unions later deleted their tweets and issued statements walking back their discredited claims. Privately, they blamed the lieutenant who first raised the false alarm.

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acab baby

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more disgusting cop behavior

Wow

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My guess on what happened:

Three cops go to Shake Shack and see a cute cashier, they ask for milkshakes and she gets it them ASAP. She did not smile because she's just doing her job fast, one cop to the other 'the girl is so rude, most girls blush at the sight of some hot cops!' 'i know! you're right!!' 'they probably poisoned on drinks too.' tells everyone at the presinct they got poisoned by Shake Shack,Shake Shack suffers PR nightmare for no good reason...

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All this fuss over nothing

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Ill talk to my buddies and let them know this is not cool.

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I feel bad for believing them. I got to Dunkin Donuts almost every day, and sometimes the coffee tastes different. I don't just assume I was fucking poisoned, I assume I had someone new make it or maybe the coffee was just stronger or weaker that day.
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Officer_Pig posted...

Ill talk to my buddies and let them know this is not cool.

Thank you for your service
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embarrassing

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pick4six posted...

My guess on what happened:

Three cops go to Shake Shack and see a cute cashier, they ask for milkshakes and she gets it them ASAP. She did not smile because she's just doing her job fast, one cop to the other 'the girl is so rude, most girls blush at the sight of some hot cops!' 'i know! you're right!!' 'they probably poisoned on drinks too.' tells everyone at the presinct they got poisoned by Shake Shack,Shake Shack suffers PR nightmare for no good reason...

They ordered from an app and did not interact with any employees. That is part of why it was easy to clear this case.

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eston posted...

They ordered from an app and did not interact with any employees. That is part of why it was easy to clear this case.

Yeah but there was still an interaction at pick up they said.

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https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1275136159220240385

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I've gotten soda before with that sanitizer taste to it.
Only took 1 sip and threw the cup out (I went in the drive thru and was on my way home)
I never got sick.

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The police were irresponsible in their actions and misleading in what they said? I'm shocked.

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Antifar posted...

The machine was cleaned before the officers ordered, according to sources, and it still contained residual milkstone remover a typically acidic solution used to combat buildup in dairy equipment.

So like, does this mean it was improperly cleaned? Isn't that a health violation? Shake Shack gonna get off the hook because the cops overreacted and now it's getting political?

Used to work somewhere we we had to clean with drink machine with cleaning stuff. It's not easy to know if it's fully cleaned so I don't blame the cops for thinking there was something wrong with it. But framing like they were actively being poisoned to gain sympathy points was stupid.

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Right wingers on this board call every single hate crime a false flag or staged and bring up Jussie constantly, but when things like this with cops happen repeatedly, they berate anyone who doesn't immediately believe officers engaged in a PR war for their very institution when they say they've been poisoned.

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Lmao it tasted sour and they scream "I've been poisoned". Holy shit at this story. Great time to lie and make cops look even worse

only the brightest can form the thin blue line

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Lmao

XD

XD

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Cops are known liars protected behind their "expert witness" testimony

This has been going on for decades

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Also this is why people knew they were lying when the first report came out, it's so crazy how intuition works.

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But people in the original topic told me I was wrong for saying Shake Shack should sue them!

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Tim Pool is fash trash

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ASithLord7 posted...

Tim Pool is fash trash

"hE's ThE oNlY rEaSoNaBlE lEfTiSt"

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Were are all these people who say we should trust cops at now .

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Anteaterking posted...

"hE's ThE oNlY rEaSoNaBlE lEfTiSt"

There are people who seriously think Tim Pool is a leftist?

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Iodine posted...

There are people who seriously think Tim Pool is a leftist?