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And that’s basically it!
Sheriff Owens, on the other hand, argued that it was a simple business dispute that any citizen could have called in.
Well, does every other citizen have a vehicle equipped with computers, sirens and have the authority to basically break traffic at will for emergencies?
Another job well done by sheriff Karen
Why does this article leave out that this happened March of 2023…more than a year ago. They just got the footage last week. That still seems like an important detail.
Edit: added link to another article.
what was the problem with the burger? did he get everything else on it but "not the onion"?
When deputies first arrived at the scene, they realized the restaurant's doors were locked, despite employees still being inside. The employees unlocked the doors for the deputies and explained that many upset customers would act out violently or even resort to talking, so they were just trying to be safe, according to the video.
Oh no, the customers might resort to talking! Quick! Lock the doors!
next time a cop almost takes me out running a red light, I'm going to assume he's heading for a burger
So... the sheriff's decided he didn't want to call burger King corporate to file a business complaint... but instead call for backup so that city employees could find the phone number for him? He should have to pay a fine for this.
Tbf they should have just replaced the guy's order
I always imagined that Cartman was an elementary school kid, perhaps not
Ramirez! Secure the burger town!!!
Aye sir! [automatic weapons fire]
[air support inbound, SWAT requested, DEFCON DONUT]
It time to commit puts on sunglasses burger regicide
God, if only American cops were cool enough to be regicidal.
Is that from a certain video game?
Team Fortress 3: Micro Transact
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Correct.
From Call of Duty: Burger Town.
"But I ordered theonion rings! I need backup here!"
The employees unlocked the doors for the deputies, and explained that many upset customers would act out violently or even resort to talking, so they were just trying to be safe, according to the video.
Good lord... Talking. How could they?
Stalking. It was a typo.
yeah, that has to be some kind of typo.
See? This is why trump is so close.
A joke of a country. That’s what it is.
Lol the cop was the Karen calling the cops on bs fast food complaint. Except it was officer Karen so backup actually came and behaved like the attack dogs karens imagine.
"I was not in my uniform, and at no point in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself as a member of the law enforcement community," Sheriff Owens said. "At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call."
That's disingenuous. The 911 operator, who works for the police department, obviously knows the name of the sheriff. Any police department flags calls from police officers, including non-emergency calls. The sheriff should have known better than to waste public resources to strongarm a business when he could have simply emailed a complaint to corporate.
If 3 patrol cars speed through town with lights flashing and sirens blaring anytime anyone needs a manager's phone number, that's even worse, sheriff.
Over a freaking whopper! This was totally an abuse of power. I'd love to see what happened to make the employees feel so unsafe that they'd lock the doors.
And pointedly, the police only respond for criminal issues. They are not going to assist you in a civil dispute like this. Unless you're the fucking sheriff. The best that could happen is the police come to trespass the caller.
They might arrest you to teach you a lesson in not wasting their time, though.
Or shoot you.
Obviously not if you're the sheriff.
Everytime you are in a meeting that could have been an email, remember that there are police raids that could be solved by looking at Google maps for 30sec.
In their defense, it really doesn't take that much brainpower to throw black people in jail.
In their defense, it really doesn't take that much brainpower to throw black people in jail.
WTF?
I don't understand why they refused to correct his order or refund him, but this was clearly an abuse of power.
I doubt their standard procedure is to give wrong food to customers and then lock the doors. Something else happened prior to what is told in the story.
You are assuming the Sheriff acted totally normal just before abusing their power.
Totally normal™ up to just after he checked his Karen hairdo in the pocket mirror, folded it away in his purse, put his hand on the gun and said "Ok, let's do this."?
I'd like to point out that there is very clearly onion in the photo of the burger here