Remember the story of the McDonalds worker supposedly writing “fucking pig” on the cop’s coffee cup?
Yeah, it was a hoax. The 23 year old cop had been a member of the military police in Iraq for years and had only been on the force for 2 months when he did it. He’s been fired.
The police chief very wisely had the McDonald’s manager with him at the press conference and a bunch of cops went over to the restaurant to have coffee. But I’m sure the incident left a bad taste in everyone’s mouths (and not from the coffee…)
I don’t expect people to agree on much in this country. But I don’t think it’s too much to ask that people on all sides stop making up victim stories. We all watched the Jessie Smolett circus. But all kinds of people do this and in this heated environment it’s ridiculous.
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