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Originally posted by pulicords:

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Originally posted by steve495:
This was a staged protest in NYC, at multiple establishments. Over the past few days, protestors visited restaurant establishments, went in, sat down and refused to show their vaccination cards.

I'm certain there are venues who will happily serve those customers, but in these instances, the establishments refused service and asked the customers to leave. They did not leave and demanded to be served. Again, this was a pre-planned staged protest.

When protests like this occur, law enforcement gets called.

This was not cops wandering around checking vaccination cards at Applebees, Shake Shack or The Cheesecake Factory.

https://www.businessinsider.co...tory-protest-2021-12

https://www.insider.com/anti-v...rk-applebees-2021-12

https://www.independent.co.uk/...lebees-b1977682.html

Thanks for providing some necessary context. No, I don't believe we are on the slippery slope to sending American Citizens to concentration or re-education camps, because of stupid laws requiring proof of vaccination. There's a huge difference between dealing with "protesters" that knowingly act in defiance to the law so they'll force officers into these situations and victims of "police oppression." They wanted a confrontation so they could use civil disobedience to make their point PUBLICLY. Comparing these situations to Jews forcibly removed from their own homes and sent to death camps isn't just ridiculous, it minimizes the real horrors that were the Holocaust and unfairly paints cops stuck between two agendas as "Jack Booted Thugs."

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Originally posted by 6guns:
The comparison to the rioting antifa and blm groups is very appropriate. The cops know who they can get away with being hard asses to.

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Originally posted by steve495:
This was a staged protest in NYC, at multiple establishments. Over the past few days, protestors visited restaurant establishments, went in, sat down and refused to show their vaccination cards.

I'm certain there are venues who will happily serve those customers, but in these instances, the establishments refused service and asked the customers to leave. They did not leave and demanded to be served. Again, this was a pre-planned staged protest.

When protests like this occur, law enforcement gets called.

This was not cops wandering around checking vaccination cards at Applebees, Shake Shack or The Cheesecake Factory.

https://www.businessinsider.co...tory-protest-2021-12

https://www.insider.com/anti-v...rk-applebees-2021-12

https://www.independent.co.uk/...lebees-b1977682.html

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Originally posted by steve495:
After additional reading, I'm going to request the title of this thread be changed. In no way was this NYPD doing "compliance checks."

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

That doesn't look like the same people from the protests a few weeks ago. Do you have anything to back up that this video is from those protests?

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Originally posted by kidcop:
But battling violent rioters no way compares to hooking up non-violent protestors sitting in an Applebees.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
I believe the thread title to now be accurate.

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Originally posted by steve495:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

That doesn't look like the same people from the protests a few weeks ago. Do you have anything to back up that this video is from those protests?

I never said it was the same people. These are protests, organized by small groups of people.

It looks like 30 went to Cheesecake Factory back in mid-December and a second group visited Applebee's a day or so after that. Same mall. They also visited Shake Shack about the same time frame as I understand. None of this - including the video in the OP - happened in the last couple of days. It all happened around Dec. 15-17.

Edited to add - I can not confirm the location or timing, but this is at about the same time at Shake Shack. The small group ordered their food for take out (no card required) and then went into the seating area as a protest and started eating.
https://twitter.com/L2FTV/status/1471263203904655375

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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Originally posted by kidcop:
But battling violent rioters no way compares to hooking up non-violent protestors sitting in an Applebees.

Ah, nuance, how convenient. Just like that, we can completely ignore that "hooking up" non-violent ordinary citizens is so much safer (physically, in terms of how the media will react, in terms of careers and in terms of civil liability) than "battling violent rioters".

And just like that, Art Acevedo becomes the face of 21st century policing - no matter how many honest, professional police officers suffered in order for him to get there.