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Chinese restaurant owner deluged with threats after sheriff wrongly accuses him of banning cops (rawstory.com)

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[–]pnwgirl -1ポイント0ポイント  (25子コメント)

EDIT to add- this entire article is a piece of shit and biased. I watched this whole story play out from the moment it was posted on Facebook. The sheriff NEVER asked for a boycott of the restaurant. That came from others who said they would never eat at a place that didn't welcome police officers.

This title is incorrect. The sheriff did not wrongly accuse the owner of anything. Quit lying. It was triple checked and verified. The owners had a change of heart after it went viral. I live here and watched this go from small town politics to worldwide. The threats are completely inappropriate and wrong. Refusing to dine in their establishment is the appropriate response if you disagree with their statement and it sends the same statement to other discriminators that you will boycott their establishments also if they pull these stunts.

[–]bigfinnriderWedgwood 28ポイント29ポイント  (3子コメント)

You watched this all...on facebook and media. You have no idea what actually happened, how much the language barrier played into it, how the cops were behaving in the restaurant... you know less than the reporters looking into this, but will judge them based on you being you and thus better.

The Sherriff didn't call for a boycott with the word "boycott", but he did say "I also understand that as customers we all have the right to find some other restaurant to take our lunch break in." I don't know what "we" he was referring to, since supposedly he and the rest of law enforcement just got banned, so clearly it wasn't "we the law enforcement community." That's a call for a boycott by anyone who reads his post.

[–]RebornPastafarianSeattle Expatriate 11ポイント12ポイント  (2子コメント)

This title is incorrect. The sheriff did not wrongly accuse the owner of anything. Quit lying. It was triple checked and verified. The owners had a change of heart after it went viral. I live here and watched this go from small town politics to worldwide. The threats are completely inappropriate and wrong. Refusing to dine in their establishment is the appropriate response if you disagree with their statement and it sends the same statement to other discriminators that you will boycott their establishments also if they pull these stunts.

That is 100% hearsay, and it is not appropriate to use your government position to incite the public against a private business.

Edit: For those unclear on the definition of hearsay, it is when one person claims to recount the words of another person.

[–]pnwgirl 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nope. Not heresay. The Sheriff stated his conversation. Journalists initially also stated that they spoke with the owners and got the same story. The public reacted. The public often reacts. Sometimes stupidly and the ones who did illegal things such as threaten should be cited or arrested. Again stupid public.

[–]ErybDes Moines -3ポイント-2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hearsay?!?! It's actually been undeniably confirmed. Are you seriously claiming the restaurant did want cops to eat there? Or are you claiming that we can't actually read the sheriff's tweets because that's not good enough evidence, what he said isn't in the actual facts but how you want to randomly say it is?

[–]LostByMonsters[S] 16ポイント17ポイント  (14子コメント)

Seriously folks. It shouldn't matter if it was a language mistake or not. It does NOT change the fact that what the Sheriff did was dishonorable.

[–]cartmanbeer 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I do recall a radio interview with what was supposedly the son of the restaurant owner and while he had a thick accent, he seemed perfectly fluent in English - enough that I find it hard to believe that "he didn't understand the questions" as quoted in this article.

[–]pnwgirl 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Customers who ate there stated that they speak English well. The father may not fully understand, I will give that. The son was the spokesman and was very clear about the issue with the sheriff initially which was why he was so shocked. This is not the first time the police have been treated like this for no reason by other establishments. And the public has made it known they don't like it.