Arby’s said it has apologized to Florida's Pembroke Pines Police Department after an employee at one of the fast-food chain's locations allegedly refused to serve one of the department's police officers.

Pembroke Pines police says one of their officers was initially refused service at an Arby’s location in town on Tuesday evening when trying to order food at the restaurant’s drive-thru. The officer was in uniform and in a police vehicle, according to a police report filed on the incident.
The drive-thru clerk, who was identified as Kenneth Davenport, 19, sounded "short" with the officer when he or she was ordering, the police report says. Police would not divulge the name of the complaining officer.
When the officer drove to the pickup window, the store manager, Angel Mirabel, told the officer that the clerk "doesn't want to serve you because you are a police officer." Mirabel had to order Davenport to process the officer's credit card.
The officer expressed displeasure and concern about the safety of the food to the manager. Mirabel also allegedly told the officer that the clerk "has the right to refuse to serve" you. The officer felt "uncertain" about the safety of the food and was given a refund.

Major Carolos Bermudez said the employee did not specify why he or she might have had any animosity against police. Davenport told CBS Miami that he didn't serve the officer, because he was busy helping other customers. He said that the misunderstanding was the result of Mirabel trying to make a joke that did not go over well.

“We don’t hate cops,” Davenport said told the television station. “We don’t hate anybody. We’re just trying to get people out of the drive thru.”
Bermudez said Arby’s CEO Paul Brown and Senior Vice President of Operations Scott Boatwright, called Police Chief Dan Giustino on Wednesday morning and apologized.
Arby’s confirmed that Brown had apologized to Giustino.

“We take this isolated matter very seriously as we respect and support police officers in our local communities,” Arby’s spokesman Jason Rollins said a statement. “We will be following up with our team members to be sure that our policy of inclusion is understood and adhered to.”

The Broward and Dade County Police Benevolence Association said an apology was not enough and called on supporters to boycott Arby's until the company fires the employees.
"This is yet another example of the hostile treatment of our brave men and women simply because they wear a badge," PBA president John Rivera said. "It is unacceptable and warrants much more than an apology."

Rollins said the company would follow through with disciplinary action "up to and including termination of the employees involved, as appropriate.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/02/arbys-apologizes-refuses--serve-florida-police-officer/71580310/

These idiots don't get that if their store gets robbed....who are they going to call? And the cops will do their jobs regardless of these idiots.

Well you've clarified it for me. My question was what if police refused service to us as well. Sigh, where are the days of Augustus McRae? He would have handed that punk his teeth on a wreath. I know, fictional character. So...is one riot, one ranger also fiction?
Forgive me if I misspelled the last name. It's been a while since I read the novel.

The "black lives matter" movement is like a plague. It has become "cool" and politically correct to hate cops.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/09/voters-place-blame-in-war-on-police/

Only days after WND reported Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke accused the Obama administration of leading a “war” against police, a new poll shows a majority of voters essentially agree.

Wednesday’s poll by Rasmussen Reports showed nearly six of 10 voters (58 percent) believe there is such a war, and 60 percent “believe comments critical of the police by some politicians make it more dangerous for police officers to do their jobs.”

Clarke made his comments after the ambush and shooting death of a Houston officer at a gas station.

“I said last December that war had been declared on the American police officer, led by some high profile people – one of them coming out of the White House, one of them coming out of the Department of Justice,” Clarke told Fox News on Saturday.

“It’s open season right now, no doubt about it. … I’m tired of hearing people call [Black Lives Matter] black activists. They’re black slime, and it needs to be eradicated from American society and American culture. I need every law-abiding person in the United States of America to stand up and start pushing back against this slime, this filth disparaging the American law enforcement officers within these communities,” Clarke said.

Rasmussen reported, “With officers murdered in Texas and Illinois in just the last few days, most voters now believe the police are under attack in America and blame politicians critical of the cops for fanning the flames.”

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Its survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 with a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points and a 95 percent level of confidence.


It found only 27 percent disagree there is a war on police, and 15 percent were undecided.

Only 18 percent said politicians’ comments “improve the quality of the police’s performance,” and 13 percent said they have no impact.

“While there is usually a wide racial difference of opinion on questions related to the police, most black voters (54 percent) agree with the majority of white (60 percent) and other minority voters (56 percent) that there is a war on police underway,” Rasmussen reported.

“Blacks (36 percent) are far less likely than whites (66 percent) and other minorities (55 percent), however, to say the comments of some politicians are making it more dangerous for the police. There’s very little belief in any of the groups, though, that the comments are improving police performance,” the poll said.

Is there a “war on cops” in America? See the BIG LIST of cops killed by gunfire in 2015

The protests, Rasmussen reported, have been surging since the August 2014 shooting of a black teenager by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri.

A grand jury cleared the officer of criminal charges, and the federal government declined to pursue any prosecution as the evidence indicated the teen, at nearly 300 pounds, charged the officer and tried to wrest his gun from him.

Nevertheless, the “Black Lives Matter” movement was launched, fueling accusations that police departments across the country are discriminating against blacks.

Rasmussen found 82 percent of black voters think most black Americans get unfair treatment from police. White voters by a 56 percent to 30 percent margin disagree.

And 72 percent of Americans have a favorable view of police where they live.

Seventy-eight percent of Republicans think there is a war on police now, compared to 48 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of voters “not affiliated with either major party.”

Twenty-six percent of Democrats say political comments critical of police are helping the officers, while only 12 percent of GOP voters believe that.

More than three-fourths of those who already say there is a war on cops “believe the critical comments by some politicians make it more dangerous for the cops.”

And 70 percent of voters believe that the level of crime in low-income city neighborhoods is a bigger problem that police discrimination against minorities.

Eric Golub in a commentary at Communities Digital News said Black Lives Matter is just the latest iteration of the Black Panther and the New Black Panther parties.

“The violence in our streets did not start with President Obama, but he owns the current round of it lock, stock and barrel,” he wrote. “His ideological fingerprints are all over it.

“When a white Cambridge police officer legally detained an arrogant black Harvard professor who shouted at him, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ Obama reflexively and wrongly assumed that the white police officer ‘acted stupidly,’” he wrote.

Just a couple of weeks earlier, the chief of the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild accused the federal government of declaring “war on cops.”

The group’s president, Ron Smith, said, “The administration’s message has fueled the war on cops!! Quote me!!”

Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory was quoted at Breitbart saying, “In Ferguson, Obama and [then-Attorney General Eric] Holder had to find something. That was a terrible mistake; undermining the police officers there and of police officers in general.

The Washington Post also reported that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, believes law enforcement is under assault “due in part to enmity toward policy from the Obama administration.”

He said: “Cops across this country are feeling the assault. They’re feeling the assault from the president from the top on down as we see. Whether it’s in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response of senior officials of the president, of the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That is fundamentally wrong, and it is endangering the safety and security of us all.”

WND has created the "BIG LIST of cops killed by gunfire in 2015.


Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/09/voters-place-blame-in-war-on-police/#F3wtd6yRMycDfIGH.99/

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I saw on the news today that recruitment has gone down. I don't blame them. They put their lives on the line for fairly low pay in comparison for the job

If I were a cop these days, I'd bypass ALL of the fast food joints....no telling what some cop hater behind the counter might do to the food.

Crazy times.

It just isnt worth it...people have lost their dang minds.

My Thoughts exactly Mr. Archer...
IN these times If I was a police officers I would be very careful in all that I did and said.

To protect and serve as far as I know didn't say anything about
Abuse, or being killed for anything other reason than they chose to put on a uniform.

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WOW... This is much worse than I could of of imagined.


Philadelphia PA., Sept 1,2015

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/officers-wanted-police-departments-struggle-with-recruiting/

Wisconsin, Sept 1,2015

http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Law-enforcement-recruitment-down-323793391.html?device=phone&c=y/

Nationwide, Sept 2, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/02/who-needs-this-police-recruits-abandon-dream-amid-anti-cop-climate/

Nationwide, Sept 3, 2015

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/410941-disturbing-trend-police-recruitment-emerges-question-black-lives-matter-blame/

I don't buy the racism bit. If a cop is bad he takes it out on everyone, not just blacks.

Perhaps there is more black crime per capita because of failed policies on all levels, but crime is a life style choice, just like smoking, drinking, etc.

It's not hereditary, but it is learned! Black or white, and even if hidden under a badge!

Many fast-food joints, comp meals and beverages to the uniformed members of law enforcement. Many, offer drastic discounts.

Law enforcement isn't a "protected" class, race/religion/national origin.
Refusal to provide service to a cop, based on cop status alone, doesn't rise to the level of criminal charges.

However,
I'd wager, french fry tech Davenport, has been terminated from his exalted career... and, that his "black life", can matter somewhere else.

The employee should get a medal for saving the officers life.

Arby's is disgusting.

I swear they use rat skins for their meat.

What a coinky dink. The McDonald's next door just got robbed. I bet the cops matter a whole heap now.

there have been cases of teachers who have done bad things
messed around with a student or got angry and put one in a vice grip

so this means all teachers are bad

there have been cases where pastors/priests have messed around with married women or minors in congregation

therefore all pastors are evil

there have been cases where police officers have abused their authority

therefore all are bad

there have been cases of dogs that have bitten their owners
therefor all dogs are evil

Well, I did get paddled a lot in school ...

bad boy

just saw something on facebook
arby's got mad about protesters out front
and called the cops to break it up
cops got there and bought them slurpees

Hehehehe I saw the same thing