A video depicting an NYPD officer repeatedly asking a barista at Upstate Stock (2 Berry St.) why he can’t use the bathroom has led to several questions about the incident, including why the officer and his colleague are not, like many officers seen across the city, wearing mandatory face masks inside a business that requires protective measures.
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In reviewing this video, it is apparently clear that two issues are happening here. First, the Barista allowed a female white officer to use the restroom, but the black officer could not, and then said no one is allowed to use it. You have a disdain for police officers and he is also prejudice to blacks. Clearly you can see he has no real answers to this issue. This is not something that is just happening now. Many hate cop issues have happened in stores such ad this long before this. As for the masks. With all that has happened over the last week with the marching and many not paying attention to the rule, the story is more of police hating and racist thoughts, so to glaze over that with a covid rule, supports this young man’s racist character.
the owner has released video security footage clearly showing the barista refusing white cops the bathroom directly before this. The OWNER had earlier let a white cop use the bathroom, then he cleaned it and left the store instructing staff not to let anyone use it.
He did not let the lady cop use the bathroom either! There was security video showing him denying her to.
Are you blind? The security video clearly shows the white female cop being denied access. That’s the point–the corrupt cop tried to paint this as a racist incident when in fact it was not. ACAB.
Get yourself wrapped around the facts. The store manager allowed the white officer to use the restroom despite it being closed to the public since March. Then the barista in the video comes in to work his shift and is told to make sure no one uses the restroom. Then the other cops come in to the store all angry and belligerent because they can’t use the restroom. I’m all for respecting the blue but not with this harassment and BS. Those cops should just use the restroom in the park. And it’s BS that they sent a Black officer to make it look racist…reprimand these cops…bad blue blood.
Wow. People are very bored