Hasta Muerte Coffee; cops not welcomed
Bobo sends a link from KCRA which reports that Hasta Muerte Coffee, an employee-owned co-op in Oakland, California has refused service to police for the “physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.”
Last Friday February 16th a police (OPD) entered our shop and was told by one of our worker-owners that “we have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” Since then, cop supporters are trying to publicly shame us online with low reviews because this particular police visitor was Latino. He broadcasted to his network that he was “refused service” at a local business and now the rumblings are spreading.
We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that we are not alone saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical & emotional safety. There are those that do not share that sentiment – be it because they have a friend or relative who is a police, because they are white or have adopted the privileges whiteness affords, because they are home- or business- owning, or whatever the particular case may be. If they want to make claims about police being part of the community, or claims that race trumps the badge & gun when it comes to police, they must accept that the burden of proof for such a claim is on them. OPDs recent attempts to enlist officers of color and its short term touting of fewer officer involved shootings does not reverse or mend its history of corruption, mismanagement, and scandal, nor a legacy of blatant repression.
I sure hope that their name, “Hasta Muerte”, “Until Death” in English, isn’t prescient.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
If I were the police, I wouldn’t show up to any calls from the business. You know, for the “physical and emotional safety of [their] customers and [them]selves.”
I’d be running background checks on every employee in the place. Some one in there has some very serious reasons not to want cops around. Close the place and fingerprint every available surface and see who pops up on NCIC.
At the least, every patrol car that drives by should tap the siren, just to say hi of course…
If someone was to rob them they ought to call on the nearest gangbanger or crackhead for help.
Their e-mail address is:
hastamuertecoffee@gmail.com
Feel free to share with these nice people your feelings about their policy. As always, no references to their momma’s.
You bet! if the worthless a.h.’s need help, call a hippy, or dirtbag wetback….you know something is wrong with idiots like this that would name their den of stupidity “Hast Muerte”
10 thumbs-up to all of the preceding responses!!!
Baaaaahahahahahahahahaha.
Nice store front you got there.
Shame something should happen it.
Yes, it sure is pretty. And pretty expensive. Shame.
And that’s why, if I owned some sort of public business, I would offer 10% discount for conceal and carry holders and 15% off for cops in uniform.
That way the panzy-ass coffee shop down the street would get robbed and not me.
The TAH restaurant in DC doesn’t charge LEOs in uniform.
What’s the name of the TAH establishment, and if Hack flashes the employee ID badge of the proud but humble woman owned business where he works, does he he get a discount?
Right now, the TAH restaurant/bar is named “Slash Run“, but that’s going to change soon. It’s right across the street from the main gate of the Old Soldier’s Home.
We’re finishing up on the purchase this week.
You’re in the restaurant business, Jonn? One of these days, when I take my kids to see their nation’s capital, I will have to hit that up! Hope you don’t mind me throwing some business your way.
Best wishes. It’s a tough business.
What!? What’s this, a TAH bar? Details. Need details. Gotta have details.
Grand opening! I love grand openings. They are so, so…what’s the word?….oh yeah, grand.
I will stand in line to be first so that my currency is immortalized.
That’s awesome! I live in Quantico so that isn’t toooo far. I don’t think I’ve made it that far into northern DC, however. About as far as I’ve gotten north is the Franciscan Monastery.
I know of one waterfront eatery that has “Concealed Carry Wednesday” where they give you a 10% discount if you show them your CCW Permit.
I know of a Native American eatery that has “Whitey’s Scalp Tuesday” where they give you a 50% discount if you show them a not-yet-dried white-man’s scalp.
Did I mention Penis Friday’s? Nah. I had better not mention that.
A 911 transcript I’d love to see.
911: “911, what’s the nature of the emergency?”
Hasta Muerte: “Someone’s trying to break in! He has a gun and might kill us! We need the police now!”
911: “Oh, I see your address corresponds to Hasta Muerte Coffee. Hmm . . . the note here says, ‘Police not welcome.’ OK, the police will be there just as soon as you send them a written invitation.”
Hasta Muerte: “What?!”
911: “You’ve told the police they’re not welcome at your shop, remember? So they won’t be coming until you invite them in writing.”
Hasta Muerte: “There’s no time for that! We need help now!”
911: “Well, then it looks like the name of your coffee shop might have been prophetic. Hope you survive. If not, have a nice funeral.” (click)
The police will go. They will go on calls there. They will be as nice and professional as they can be. The best revenge is always living well.
This is the truth of it. Just look at all these “peaceful” protests. Cops acting professionally at all of them, when they would like nothing more than to nightstick some sense into people.
Huh?
Trying to figure out what you are really saying.
What he’s referring to is when antifa little shits do all they can to antagonize LEOs and they stay professional and do their job right when the little shits do all they can to deserve a beating.
The coffee shop sells books. In. Oakland. Let me rephrase that. The coffee shop has books for sale.
Wanna bet that’s where the bills larger than ones are placed and kept throughout the day, where no one will ever find them: in the books.
Oakland is known for its “ill” literacy.
Let me guess some of the titles:
“Rules for Radicals”
“Das Kapital”
“Communist Manifesto”
“Communism for Kids”
“Mao’s Little Red Book”
“Lipstick Lesbians of the Lubyanka”
“Trigglypuff’s Guide to Weight Loss”
Ha!
Chínga tu madre, Hasta Muerte Coffee!
Naughty, TOW. Justified IMO, but still naughty. (smile)
y tu abuela tambien, Hasta Muerte Coffee!
Y los caballos que montan, tambien! Pinches pendejetes y lambiscones.
Oh, this is why the fine art of insulting idiots needs to be revived.
Okay, they don’t want the police as customers? Fine. La policia can practice the fine art of responding Chicago-style. Take at least 20 minutes, preferably 35, to get to that address, and stay outside the premises, taking notes. Take statements. Then send the proprietor a bill for services rendered.
They should also post notices to make their customers feel more… well, comfortable.
For example: ‘Zona libre de policía’
or this one: ‘No se permite la policía aquí’
And make sure there’s a circle with the angled line over the cop’s hat or badge.
The Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement agencies have no legal obligation to protect life or property. Oakland PD should therefore exercise their right to reply to any calls from this shop with “Well, sucks to be you!”
Dear coop employee idiots,
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Enjoy your decision.
What in the hell is “emotional safety”?
Something that those who need “safe spaces” claim they must have to avoid requiring an Emotional Rescue.
(smile)
I just read that in Mick’s voice, Hondo
My emotional safety is in the off position at all times.
When insecure pussies are sheltered from their irrational fears.
TOW, you didn’t quite finish that sentence.
It’s ‘irrational fears of the real world and all its ugly truths.’
So it would seem.
The maintenance of delusions? Pharmaceutical enhancement optional.
Likely a cuddly “Safe Space” for candyasses like what you see on college campuses.
LOLOLOLOL! WHAT A BUNCH OF PISS BABY NERDS!
Drink some Black Rifle Coffee instead. At least then you wont have to deal with these JOTOS’! ROFLMAO!!
Do those guys sell black tea?
I don’t think they do actually.
That’s a shame. I’d buy it from them.
Walmart’s brand is okay but tends to be woody if steeped too long. The best is real Oolong (Chinese restaurant tea), but hard to find around here. WMart does sell it through 3rd party sellers.
Lipton’s is only good for washing dishes, cleaning windows, or scrubbing deep sinks..
Red Rose Tea if you please
MMMM Black Rifle Coffee is the best!, and you can’t beat the names of the different roasts…
Just got my monthly installment of Black Rifle Coffee, “Coffee or Die” blend.
Mmmmmm, that is all.
My personal favorite is CAF….that shit’ll grow hair on a brick!
I joined the club and get a different blend each month. I’m like a kid at Christmas waiting for the next delivery.
This is what happens when a generation of metrosexual geldings arise.
A Christian Baker refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding is bad, but a coffee shop refusing to serve law enforcement officers is good. Does Hack have that right?
It’s good, until the coffee shop gets held up at gunpoint, and/or a hostage situation arises.
Hack, I’m waiting for CNN/MESSNBC to point that out. Maybe they already have. /s
They can just call on a crackhead, hooker,pimp or gangbanger for help if they need it.
I was thinking the same thing. If they can refuse service to LEOs, why can’t a cake shop refuse service to whomever they please too? Da fuq?
Or go into a muzzie deli and demand a Bacon Sandwich.
I wish I lived there only to walk in, order damn near everything on the menu, plus 16 coffees to go, and then walk out mumbling something about capitalist pigs. They would surely understand, right? They might smile and raise a clenched fist in salute. They wouldn’t mind at all.
So long as you hoist a fist in the air while chanting “Attica!” over and over on your way out.
No way a place with those signs and that name, with that business philosophy, ever passes a health department inspection.
Something to consider is that Hasta Muerte Coffee just proved the main foundation for California’s sanctuary law for illegal immigrants is based on a steaming pile. Those who have been paying attention might remember that supporters of sanctuary cities repeat endlessly that making things hard on La Migra means local cops get the benefit of better cooperation in Latino communities. Something which might prove useful in solving the most violent of crimes.
So here comes Hasta Muerte saying that all sanctuary policy might actually buy is temporary appeasement on the reconquista march to give California back to Mexico.
Fuck them. Enough is enough.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not include occupation in its list of discrimination no-nos regarding public accommodation. Nevertheless I am sure the ACLU, etc., will be trying to rectify that omission by tomorrow.
In other news, from the website of that establishment—
“Hasta Muerte Coffee es una nueva cafetería operada colectivamente por gente de color”
My Spanish ain’t that great, but I think it means that the establishment is run either by or for people of color. In either case I think a case could be made for racial discrimination in either hiring or serving.
Someone should throw a pack of Black Cat firecrackers thru the door of hasta Muerte and watch with glee as the snowflakes spill their overpriced Jo, duck for cover and urinate in their pants.
^^^^THIS^^^^
I bet that place is frequented by types like whatshisface that told us there is nothing to fear about Communism.
Oh, and dear Beth Stewart:
EAFBOD.
A McDonald’s near me recently had a similar situation where when a cop pulled through the drive through, the person in the window refused to serve them.
McDonald’s said they have corrected the problem but refused to say whether that “correction” involved the termination of the employee.
What makes this incident particularly troubling is that the McDonald’s is one of two in the city that hosts a monthly “Coffee and Cops” series where you can go to the restaurant, meet police, and talk about anything you want with them.
That means everything from bad cops and racial tensions to thanking cops and for acknowledging they do a tough job.
The second thing that made this odd was that the restaurant had recently changed locations. The old location still had over $25K in restaurant equipment in it. When a group tried to steal the equipment from the old location, they came outside to find the police waiting for them.
The third thing that made this odd was that 2 years ago, someone had tried to rob the restaurant and the police caught them as well.
Talk about not being self aware.
Apparently the employee felt that instead of actually talking with a cop on one of these mornings, she would rather just go with the stereotype and hate all cops.
This ridiculous incident made the local evening news. Apparently, this “stand” does not sit well with the community and the store + owner + co-opers are getting quite a bit of backlash over their “stand”.
Yeah, if you want a successful business, it’s a good idea to not piss off the people you might need to protect you if someone with a gun and a ‘tude walks in and demands yo’ cash, pendejos!
I hope someone opens up a pr0n store and theater next door to them.
I wonder how long that place has been in business? I give ‘em a year, maybe two before they go belly up!
that name makes it sound like the bad guy’s “secret” gang lair in a cheesy movie.
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I say forget the Marxist-Leninist coffee shop and try these Veteran owned coffees instead.
http://rangercoffee.com/
https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/
http://www.locknloadjava.com/
https://blueangelcoffee.com/
https://www.gijoecoffee.com/
Don’t forget Veterans Coffee Company
You are correct:
http://www.veteranscoffeecompany.com/
BTW Ranger Coffee has suspended ops.
It’s OK with me if they want to refuse service to anyone or any group based on whatever criteria they wish to use. Only those folks who contributed to start up costs or pay the mortgage or the taxes have a say. It’s simply none of my business, no matter how stupid I think their decision might be. Let them pay the consequences or reap the benefits of their decision.
The problem is that the same people who feel free to play out their delusions this way demand that the rest of us also live according to their delusions. I’m not OK with that.
When a large sheet of plywood is nailed over what used to be your front window….well…let us just say that people of ALL COLORS tend to shy away from spending their hard earned dollars there.
A boss of a mobbed up restaurant that tried to screw me out of a VERY hard earned paycheck (it bounced at the bank!!) ,while I was starving in college, also realized the error of his poor decision and paid me in cash right there when I presented the options. Maybe I was stupid but I got my damned money and he kept his front window.
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I prefer Chai.
Problem solved on my end.
To hell with these clowns.
Well then just totaly boycott the place and hope they get robbed a lot just another stink hole run by intollerent liberals
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