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In reply to the discussion: The Starbucks thing... [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But even with the best community police policy in the world, when an owner or manager insists that someone leave their property the police must enforce that request.
When a person refuses, the police office must then forcibly remove them.
Had the Starbucks manager been reasonable and able to understand the subtlety of the situation the cops would never have been called.
And lets say, for this discussion, that the cops had discovered the situation and told the manager that the 2 gentleman were waiting on a friend. Which for all we know might have happened. Had the manager still insisted they be removed the cops would have had to do so. Or potentially face discipline.
Community policing assumes everyone involved will behave somewhat reasonably.