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They will not serve anyone who is armed including police officers. I’m fine with that policy.
Yeah this also allows them to lock the doors on anyone carrying guns, which is just good sense. Now nobody with shooting intentions will be allowed to come in at all, instead of just walking in incognito.
EDIT: How on earth is this a bad take?
Have they tried not being cops?
love this. it's always extremely uncomfortable as a customer trying to have a shop and relax and oh shit there's a dunce with a gun who could literally kill me and get away with it
They are the fucking literal definition of the intolerance paradox. It's not bigotry if what you dislike is actually trying to kill you.
Wah, a private business is doing what they see fit and it effects me, a pig!
I know they think theyre special but mewsflash, pig isn’t a protected class
Whelp, sucks, but they're allowed to refuse service. Being a cop isn't exactly a protected class.
Gay wedding cakes.
And the cops would probably refuse to show up if the store were robbed. But they don’t understand why they get no donuts.
Bad cop, no doughnut
"This is the worst kind of discrimination! The kind against me!"
Fantastic move and not bigotry. See: everyone who was minding their own business that have been killed by the cops.
The hive mind is STRONG on LEMMY.
If you have a point, make it.
OMG! You mean a community specifically for discussing...(checks notes)..."the police problem" is universally against police acting like wittle bitch babies because they can't get their donuts from one specific store while carrying a gun? God damn that's crazy!
How dare a business owner deny service to people they don't want to serve and make those pigs saunter down the street to Krispy Kreme instead! It's exactly like making black people sit at the back of the bus! It's not like the cops had anything to do with that, or siccing dogs on the people protesting that treatment at the time right?
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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