Posted by Tina
The proprietor of a vegan caf in Portland Oregon has demonstrated the proper profiling technique. The Arizona police (and others around the country) should take notes:
“Red & Black & Blue,” by The Oregonian Editorial Board
The words could be printed on the back of the business cards that Portland police carry: “We strive to provide a community space that is safe and welcoming to all.” ** But that’s not a sentence taken from the mission statement of the Portland Police Bureau. ** No, its from the website of the Red & Black Cafe, where a Portland police officer who stopped for a cup of coffee in mid May was told, in so many words, that his kind wasn’t welcome there. ** Its an irresistible story, a classic keep-Portland-weird moment, the co-owner of a Portland cafe that professes to welcome everybody — vegans, environmental and animal-rights activists, the homeless — telling Officer James Crooker, a former Marine who served in Iraq, to take his coffee, leave and not come back. ** As a city, Portland keeps pleading with its police to better understand the people they serve, all of them, whatever their race, whether or not they suffer from a mental illness, whether they sleep on a sidewalk or with a roof over their head.
Our brave men and women in blue could learn from the sheer genius of this vegan technique: Pick a target…get his attention…and then….kick him out telling him to never come back!