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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nBobo sends a link from KCRA<\/a> which reports that Hasta Muerte Coffee<\/a>, an employee-owned co-op in Oakland, California has refused service to police for the “physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” <\/p>\n Last Friday February 16th a police (OPD) entered our shop and was told by one of our worker-owners that \u201cwe have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.\u201d 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 \u201crefused service\u201d at a local business and now the rumblings are spreading. I sure hope that their name, “Hasta Muerte”, “Until Death” in English, isn’t prescient. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nWe 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n