The San Francisco Police Officers Assn. claims that a bakery in the Reem's California chain denied service to one of its officers because he was in uniform.

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.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
    214·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • AEsheron@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • 100@lemm.ee
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • scbasteve7@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      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.