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It might just be me, but I remember when we lived in a country where every loudmouth wasn’t trying to get some level of revenge on a cop for whatever imagined slight they conjured up in their tiny minds.
When I was growing up, the mom of one of the cops on our town’s very small police force lived across the street from us. Once a week or so, he would come over to her house to mow the woman’s lawn. Until one day he showed up and his mom told him not to worry, that some neighbor kids took care of it.
We did it out of respect, because we were taught growing up that the first person you should ask for help is a police officer. I’m much older now, but that still holds true.
This is why when I read about what happened to a cop in San Antonio, Texas my blood began to boil. The officer was celebrating the birthday of a family member at a restaurant called Fogo de Chão when a manager came up to him and asked him to leave.
Was the man intoxicated? No. Was he causing a disturbance? No. Oh, to these absolute maniacs, he was doing something tantamount to kicking a puppy that he had just gotten done whipping.
He was wearing his uniform. Yes! A police officer, in a public place, wearing his uniform. I am sure that the manager of this restaurant asked him to leave (as his family was singing Happy Birthday to the guest of honor) because they were going over budget on their fainting couches.
“According to witnesses at the restaurant, the officer was with his family having a birthday dinner. The officer left the restaurant after the manager insisted. His family stayed behind to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to a family member,” San Antonio Express-News reported. “The manager asked the San Antonio police officer, who was in soft uniform, displaying his badge and carrying his duty weapon, to leave because the establishment has a ‘no guns’ company policy.”
Despite the officer informing the management that they had the law and their policy mixed up beyond belief, he was still asked to leave. Which, while they thought that they were in the right; it’s kind of like driving a car using only your feet. Just because you can doesn’t really mean you should.
Well, quicker than you can say “Refill my iced tea”, word about what this mom and pop shop did to this cop spread like wildfire. The restaurant later issued an apology saying that it was a horrible mistake.
Come on now, accidentally giving someone the wrong appetizer is a mistake. Telling a uniformed police officer to leave during a birthday party, that just reeks of someone trying to make a ridiculous political statement.
