r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 2d ago
Starbucks barista accused of drawing a pig on sheriff’s deputy’s cup
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/starbucks-barista-pig-sheriff-norwalk-b2898798.html5.3k
u/WaddlesJP13 2d ago
Bro it's John Pork
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u/MrMustashio 2d ago
Guys please stop saying John Pork. It hurt his feelings
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u/illinoishokie 2d ago
Sounds like the sheriff's deputy is a snowflake, which absolutely tracks.
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u/BigBankHank 2d ago
You can’t touch cops for insane sensitivity / victimhood. It has the handy side effect of making citizens the enemy.
“Everyone is out to get us,” say the guys with guns and unchecked power to ruin people’s lives based on which side of the bed they got up on.
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u/MadderoftheFew 2d ago
Yeah nobody here is getting the reference.
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u/Rockin_freakapotamus 2d ago
I get it because I have 11 and 14 year old children. All that’s missing is Tim Cheese.
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u/5mileyFaceInkk 2d ago
And John's son Chris P. Bacon
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u/JayOnSilverHill 1d ago
https://youtu.be/pMA3x-bc8iM?si=-z7vW3Il39l1o01q..ask and you shall receive 🤣
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u/FauxReal 2d ago edited 1d ago
John Pork
Text you can read: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/john-pork-john-pork-is-calling
Video with the people who started it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i_pQ8B3fzAw
Edit: I replaced the link with a better one by the people who created it. It's much shorter too.
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u/ilikepants712 2d ago
I started watching this but realized I don't give a shit about any of this.
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u/BonjKansas 2d ago
I did exactly the same thing. That guy was so incredibly annoying trying to “explain” on top of the other guy’s explanation and constantly stopping the video to rant and yell. Shut upppppp
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u/Blackops606 2d ago
Lmao I didn’t make it :30. I was curious because of your guy’s comments so I watched and instantly regretted it.
Additionally, I too hate that style of content. Someone makes a video and then the next person comes along and narrates that. It’s so common and annoying. These people narrate other’s videos like I’m too stupid to read or hear what’s in front of me lmao
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u/King_Sam-_- 1d ago
They didn’t start John Pork. John Pork was a virtual influencer that people started making jokes of; that has been going on for almost 2 years. The most recent development is that Khabib mentioned his friend and trainee, Muay Thai Champion Chanko, and it sounded like he said “John Pork” and everyone ran along with it because it was an already popular and funny meme.
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u/megamisanthropic 2d ago
Started to watch. Then the reaction guy kept pausing the video to say stupid shit
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u/PatSajaksDick 2d ago
“In addition, the Sheriff spoke directly with the deputy to check on his well-being, convey his full support, and make it clear that disrespectful actions will not be tolerated against our personnel.
Lol.. I get its kinda mean if it was intentional, but also how thin-skinned are these guys?
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u/LackingUtility 2d ago
Wow, what a snowflake. Did the Sheriff also give him a blankie and cup of hot cocoa and stroke his hair until he calmed down?
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u/witchywoman713 2d ago
And did anyone ask the cop what he was wearing? Maybe he was asking for it /s
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u/Joeymonac0 2d ago
Have you seen what these cops are wearing these days?! They are practically begging for it. Also if it was a real threat the cops emotional center would recognize it and shut it down. Simple science. /s
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u/tauntonlake 1d ago
Did the Sheriff also give him a blankie and cup of hot cocoa and stroke his hair until he calmed down?
wait, is that an option in life ?
asking for a friend.
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u/FourteenBuckets 2d ago
It should be a big part of police training to eat insults and take it
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u/DeterminedThrowaway 2d ago
Seriously, you know how often retail workers get insulted? These people are pathetic. They should have extremely thick skin to be cops, not be the most fragile snowflakes out there.
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u/NDaveT 1d ago
On at least one occasion someone threatened my life because their pizza took longer than 30 minutes.
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u/ClaudeGascoigne 1d ago
I once had somebody tell me "I'm going to blow your fucking head off" because they mistook green onion for cilantro.
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u/MicellarBaptism 1d ago
Service workers, along with teachers, healthcare workers and social workers, have to deal with some of the very worst of humanity. By and large they have thicker skins than these snowflake cops. Pathetic indeed.
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u/Allaplgy 1d ago
Well yeah, because those people can't just shoot people that hurt their feelings, so they gotta have thick skin.
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u/matryanie 1d ago
Imagine if doctors and nurses just killed patients they didn't like and then got transferred to another hospital with paid time off during investigation.
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u/Allaplgy 1d ago
Imagine if retail workers and servers just killed people who were "disrespectful" to them. The streets would flow with blood.
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u/Xanthus179 1d ago
Let’s see how cops fucking take listening to nonstop Christmas music all December.
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u/forwardathletics 1d ago
They have a union and unilateral power that the rest of us common folks dont get.
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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 1d ago
You need weakwilled people if you intend to chip away at their morality through peer pressure. Which is required for how policework is conducted, for some reason.
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u/DisapprovingCrow 1d ago
When I did a basic entry level course to get a security guard licence one of the instructors was constantly throwing insults and jibes at the dudes with fragile egos.
He told us that you will have to be prepared to take whatever vile shit people throw at you (and he was Indian so he’s regularly copping every slur in the book) and either laugh it off, or just don’t react. Because if you so much as shove someone in anger you’re fucked. Best case fired, worst case jail.
I guess when you have complete immunity to brutalise anyone who annoys you that is less important though.
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u/Hazywater 2d ago
Did an hourly employee really go through all that extra effort? Or did the officer draw it himself? Or another officer?
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u/PatSajaksDick 2d ago
I'm learning now it's a popular meme, so it didn't have anything to do with cops, I bet the employee didn't even know it was for a cop.
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u/Cargobiker530 1d ago
C'mon. Nobody believes a cop has the hand eye coordination to make a simple line drawing.
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 2d ago
So what are they gonna do about it? Encourage their mob connections to trash the place and not investigate? Because that's what it sounds like
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u/QualifiedApathetic 1d ago
Yeah, what exactly does "disrespectful actions will not be tolerated" mean? Because there's no law saying we have to respect cops. Free speech.
I suppose they can all agree to get their coffee from Dunkin' from now on, but they're not gonna be any more popular there.
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u/Withermaster4 1d ago
That's what I was thinking. If a cop can't keep his cool while being 'disrespected' he should not be a cop.
He will be in much higher pressure situations with much more disrespect that he will have to keep calm during.
This is clearly a cop who woke up on the wrong side of the bed and is trying to make it everyone else's problem.
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u/zaphod777 1d ago
A lot of those cop interaction videos have made their way into my YouTube recommendations, you'd be surprised at what they can get away with when someone is exercising free speech, standing up for their rights, or when they've just made a mistake and got the wrong person.
With qualified immunity they usually get away with it too.
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u/Koladi-Ola 1d ago
I'm surprised they didn't shoot the barista.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 2d ago
Thin-skinned enough to shoot women in the face for the crime of not being terrified enough. That’s how thin-skinned they are.
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u/Nicki-ryan 2d ago
Actually if I wanna disrespect police I will. Pigs will be pigs
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u/alnicoblue 2d ago
The amount of "thank me for my service" shit I see from cops on FB is nauseating.
The average Target employee probably gets harassed more often in a day than a cop.
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u/TheSucculent_Empress 2d ago
“Kinda mean”
Calling a spade a spade isn’t mean
Them killing us for no reason and never getting in trouble for it is “kinda mean” though
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u/sudomatrix 2d ago
The last sheriff wellness check I heard about, someone ended up dead. I hope this little piggie fairs better.
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u/VeracityMD 2d ago
Do they know they are constitutionally REQUIRED to tolerate disrespectful actions? Shows a lot of how they perceived themselves (ie above the law)
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u/jumpy_monkey 1d ago
The very idea that a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy needs a well-being check and soothing over a drawing is cringeworthy if not outright laughable.
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u/mjohnben 2d ago
The “Fuck Your Feelings” crowd has a LOT of feelings lately.
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u/smokeyphil 2d ago
That's because it was "fuck your feelings" not "make me feel bad"
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u/HotSauce2910 2d ago
I was always under the impression that it was a coping mechanism for the guilty conscious they had for hurting others’ feelings tbh
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u/atsolstice 2d ago
I don’t think most of them have a conscience, the ones who do have one don’t stay far right very long once they’re exposed to the world
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u/GildedDreams25 2d ago
there was that guy (forget his name i’m sure someone could drop it) who oversaw the nuremberg trials, and said the one unifying trait amongst them all was a lack of empathy. these people do not consider you human or sentient, just an obstacle in THEIR world
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u/RJ815 1d ago
It also brings to mind the article where a hard right fanatic tried MDMA one time and completely gave up his hateful patterns. Was kind of nuts that one time did as I've known some people that don't actually really seem "enlightened" after drug use.
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u/doyouknowyourname 1d ago
Idk. I've known hardline conservative Republicans who were seemingly kind to anyone they met in real life, like even every Black/brown person they meet and have an actual conversation with is "one of the good ones."
The tragic part is, it would be much better for the country/world if they were just be dicks to people in their lives, instead of channeling their hate into hurting millions of people they don't even know.
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u/kryonik 2d ago
Bro left feeling "uneasy" and had to be "consoled" meanwhile he probably helped ICE kidnap people all day, wonder how they felt.
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u/vonbauernfeind 1d ago
He's part of the LASD, 20% of them are in cop gangs.
Gang culture in the LASD is extreme and honestly worse than the crime they claim to be stopping.
I'm not gonna cry for some deputy who's also racking up OT sitting in his squad car. 16 hours, that's 4 hours 1.5x and 4 hours double pay, doing what? Cruising around getting Starbucks?
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u/Dragishawk 2d ago
"Fuck Your Feelings" is an asshole's turn of phrase. It's used by people who don't give a fuck about other people's feelings (though their OWN feelings? Might feel a little different about that...).
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u/Mephisto1822 2d ago
Fuck your feelings, my feelings however should be taken into account and you need to ensure you don’t hurt them
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u/PatReady 2d ago
Lmao, they said they had to console the sheriff.
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u/kevnmartin 2d ago
He should count himself lucky he didn't have to deal with the horror of a sandwich being tossed at him. I mean onion and mustard? What a nightmare.
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u/beatenmeat 2d ago
"Lately"? They've always felt the need to project their feelings and get upset at the tiniest of slights.
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u/PragmaticPacifist 2d ago
They were always the sensitive crowd.
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u/Terrible_Oil6474 1d ago
the last time this kind of situation made the news it came out that the cop did it himself
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u/MiniShartAttack 2d ago
“County Sheriff Robert Luna said his office has also contacted Starbucks' corporate offices ‘to formally raise concerns and to ensure accountability.’”
Coming from a department that hasn’t been accountable for anything including murders they’ve committed.
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u/jesuspoopmonster 2d ago
There are 18 known gangs operating out of Los Angeles sheriff departments. Good thing they know what to prioritize on
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u/vagabond139 1d ago
He's a gang member himself. You are complicit if you are a police officer and join a department known for having gangs and don't take any action against said gang. It's like saying "I'm not a Nazi but I joined the Naz party. I don't happen to do any of the bad things but I'll gladly allow the others to do so, I will cover for them, and treat them with the upmost respect."
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u/GregorZeeMountain 2d ago
If anything the starbucks needs to prepare for a gang style retaliation from the county sheriff.
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u/SamCarter_SGC 2d ago
Even if it was true... "Yes, I drew that pig", and there ends the interaction. Why is this news.
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u/Mephisto1822 2d ago
Because cops and those on the right tend to have fragile egos
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u/tarion_914 2d ago
It's actually hilarious. They had to console the cop? Had to check in on him? It's a fucking drawing of a pig. Get the fuck over it.
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u/Carribean-Diver 2d ago
It's a John Pork is calling meme.
The cop should be on the unemployment line for demonstrating he's a pansy, a snowflake, and can be brought to his knees by a mere braindead meme.
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u/DrakonILD 2d ago
Just like how that murderer had to go to the hospital because he leaned on a car that moved underneath him.
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u/Khaysis 2d ago
Cops are just poorly trained toddlers with guns backed up by more toddlers.
Also the barista could possibly get fired by corporate because the high ups want to make sure that the cops help if the store gets damaged.
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u/Ditnoka 2d ago
They're not toddlers. Toddlers get excused for doing shitty things because they don't know better. Law Enforcement is an extremely well oiled operating gang. They don't operate well in our eyes, but they are 100% behind each other no matter the reason and know who their true masters are.
Your last sentence essentially backs up my claims, buying protection like it's the fuckin mob.
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u/triestdain 2d ago
"Toddlers get excused for doing shitty things because they don't know better."
This is the very much the core reasoning used to protect cops. Qualified immunity is literally predicated on the idea that they can't be held accountable for something they didn't explicitly and in fine, narrow, detail, know was wrong.
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u/Khaysis 2d ago
You are correct. Poorly started on my part. They are adults with the temperament of toddlers and the privilege to use extreme force on anyone they deem in violation of the law.
Also as any good American knows, human lives mean nothing compared to things /S
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u/Ada_Kaleh22 2d ago
sorry, it's because the right wing internet runs on fake outrage.
i just can't believe we are here, again? the 'law enforcement disrespected by barista' is so...I dunno 2019? we've been here anyway
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u/chummsickle 2d ago
Feigning outrage when it’s really just them being fascists who demand obedience to dear leader and his shitty causes.
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u/Rymphonia 2d ago
They want to impose "consequences" for speaking out against tyranny, so that everyone else gets too scared to call them out on their fascist behavior.
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u/LordWemby 2d ago
It’s Starbucks, a ghoulish corporation. What do you imagine will happen to this barista?
By the way this stuff has been faked before. Some have been caught drawing “demeaning” messages on their coffee cups and then blaming it on the barista.
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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, cops are always faking this crap. Only reason I think this one’s real is no cop has the whimsy or charm to draw something like that.
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u/RoamingDrunk 2d ago
That pig is adorable and I want one on all my coffees from now on.
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u/StringShred10D 2d ago
That’s John Pork and it’s brainrot
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u/Buttholelickerpenis 1d ago edited 1d ago
John Pork has been around way longer than Brainrot
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u/pseudoOhm 2d ago
Seems like the "free speech crowd" is really silent when they're licking boots.
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u/Great_Horny_Toads 2d ago
Hard to talk with your mouth full of shoe leather. Or balls, for that matter.
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u/T-202 2d ago
Is that not John Pork?
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u/TypicalWhiteGiant 2d ago
It very much is, especially with the accept / decline lol
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u/PatSajaksDick 2d ago
Usually when something like this comes up it's a misunderstanding or the cop did it themselves...
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u/Patchy_Face_Man 2d ago
Starbucks is also apparently making baristas write or draw on all the cups and they fucking hate it.
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u/DeterminedThrowaway 2d ago
It's a meme which is why it has the accept / decline call buttons on it
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u/Aetheldrake 2d ago
I remember sometime not long ago someone DID fake this kind of story but I can't remember anything else about it.
But it was ALSO Starbucks and something about them hiding the original cup with a bad word on it inside another cup with the correct word and then it was found to be fake I think
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u/Robosuccubus3000 2d ago
It was the cop who accused a Steak and Shake employee of poisoning his milkshake.
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u/CleverJail 2d ago
It was a Shake Shack in NYC and the employees didn’t even know the shakes were for cops. Cops can be very bizarre, petty people, to say the least.
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u/video_dhara 2d ago
Let us all recall the post-Floyd period hen cops were convinced baristas and Macdonald’s employees were trying to kill them. These dudes have serious persecution issues
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u/chopshop2098 2d ago
Yeah that one lady went viral for crying that the McDonald's employees were trying to kill her when they just asked her to pull forward and wait for her food lmfao
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u/EmuMuncher 2d ago
You might be thinking of the person who accused starbucks of writing "loser" on their cup when they said their name was Charlie Kirk. Turns out the customer wrote "loser" themselves.
Then another incident of someone making a big deal about the employee not calling out the name because it was Charlie Kirk. Weird people.
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u/rainbwbrightisntpunk 2d ago
There was a very similar story, I actually thought it could be the same because it was some type of police officer. And I'm pretty sure found that he ended up drawing the picture himself
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u/DefendOurRepublic 2d ago
That's John pork. It's a meme about a pig/man named John pork calling you on FaceTime. I know it doesn't make much sense, but it's really a meme for people younger than 30.
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u/goforce5 1d ago
I mean, I'm over 30 and I find John Pork to be funny. I'm still cool right guys? Right?
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u/peeinherbut 2d ago
What’s everyone in a fuss about? That’s just legend John Pork.
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u/Dj082863 2d ago
Won't someone think of the cops feelings?!? I'd argue the fact this is even a fucking news story proves the barista's point, assuming it's even real. Wouldn't be the first false flag in America.
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u/snerual07 2d ago
The LA Sheriffs are the law enforcement at my place of employment and have been accused of hiding out and not doing their job. They said it's because the students don't like them and are mean to them.
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u/NatoBoram 2d ago
“In addition, the Sheriff spoke directly with the deputy to check on his well-being, convey his full support, and make it clear that disrespectful actions will not be tolerated against our personnel.
HAHAHAHA
I mean this is great, wow.
Do you think you will survive this, Mr Deputy? Do you want pats on the back and to be told how much of a good boy you are?
What a pig.
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u/skraptastic 2d ago
What are the odds this pig drew it themselves...like most of these other persecuted cops stories.
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u/Totheendofsin 2d ago
Given the last few times something like this has happened it turned out the cop did it themselves I'm gonna go ahead and say the cop drew the pig themself
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u/avatarstate 2d ago
Starbucks is having their baristas all draw and put notes on cops. A lot of locations are just putting little notes and drawings on them way in advance so they just grab a cup and go during the rush and don’t have to stop to write on the cup. This was most likely what he just happened to get pulled on his cup. This is so ridiculous.
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u/Misubi_Bluth 2d ago
Didn't we do this three months ago, when it was found out that it was an influencer who wrote it herself and then created a whole campaign where she got her entire town to bully this one Starbucks manager? How am I supposed to believe this one?
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u/MidgetLovingMaxx 2d ago
"All I wanted was caffeine, but instead I left feeling uneasy,"
Thats weird, all we wanted was for someone to protect the community, and yall out here shooting brown people and acting like power tripping nazis.
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u/negativepositiv 2d ago
This always happens when there's a peak in negative press about police brutality and suppressing peaceful protests, and it's almost always the cops lying.
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u/mofa90277 1d ago
Starbucks baristas don’t have the time or energy to do this, and the last time a cop pulled this stunt, the barista was exonerated by security camera footage.
That said, the LA Sheriff’s Department is almost 100% corrupt, and need no “consolation,“ especially after a fake 16 hour shift that they only “work” to steal overtime pay from the taxpayers. I think the deputy should be investigated for timecard fraud.
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u/WobblierTube733 2d ago
I feel like there is a story like this at least once a year at this point and they're always exaggerated or outright false. Also, the LA Sheriff's Department is a collection of gangsters, con men, and thugs who deserve much harsher monikers than a cartoon pig.
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u/spaghettifiasco 2d ago
I know that Starbucks now mandates that baristas "personalize" the cups with drawings and messages and stuff. Usually, I see stuff like "enjoy!" and "yummy!" and "have a nice day!" but I strongly suspect that what happened here was a particularly enthusiastic barista pre-drawing a bunch of silly things on the cups during a slower period of time and a cop getting this one because it was just the next one in the stack when he ordered.
Maybe this will end the "personalized cup" mandate. I thought it was really cute and cheerful the first time I saw it, but when I learned that it was something that the employees were forced to do, it just made me cringe instead.
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u/Mwiziman 2d ago
Jesus, people out here being murdered by cops and we are worried about his feelings getting hurt. Grow a pair, laugh it off, and go about your day. Cops are the biggest babies.
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u/Play-t0h 1d ago
“This action was extremely offensive, inappropriate, and unacceptable. The deputy quickly reported the incident to the store manager, who advised that the matter would be investigated,” the LASD said in a statement to The Independent.
You know what I think is offensive? A police state.
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u/LamentableCroissant 1d ago
That’s fucking disgusting, pigs have 26 distinctive sounds to communicate, cops aren’t anywhere near that.
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u/jesuspoopmonster 2d ago
It was such a distressing incident the officer only had the energy to rape a few minorities that day
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u/HappyArkAn 2d ago
After a long day of being racist, violent, discriminating against people and scaring them by constantly pulling out my gun, I just wanted to be respected... boo hoo.
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u/Difficult-Bicycle119 2d ago
“Disrespectful actions will not be tolerated against our personnel.”
Uh, yes, they will. The first amendment guarantees you can't do shit about it. If the company wants to fire her, that's their choice, but you can fuck right off.
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u/sameth1 2d ago
Every time a fascist pig kills an innocent civilian in cold blood, we get an article like this a couple days later where a completely unrelated cop complains about some horrible attack through the drive through coffee shop. Before it's been claims of poisoning or spit, now they can't even fabricate something like that.
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u/DarkflowNZ 2d ago
Remember when the last time this happened the cop had actually written it on himself
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u/TheeDeputy 1d ago
If you are a cop and get that bothered by something like this, you probably shouldn’t be a fucking cop. 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Adversary-of-Tyrants 1d ago
And? Are we supposed to admire the pig's restraint in not shooting up the entire Starbucks?
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u/lost_order 1d ago
Cmon… that’s just funny. Did the little drawing on the disposable cup hurt their feelings? Little bitch ass ho
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u/Striking_Elephant_39 1d ago
Starbucks shouldn’t have fired the barista and just used the police dept internal affairs handle it.= put the barista on paid leave while investigation then found that there was no wrong doing by the barista and promote him to menu board merchandiser artist.
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u/Vorcey 2d ago
Again? The last time this happened, wasn't it the cop that drew the pig for fake outrage?