Summary: A drive-thru clerk and manager of a Florida Arby’s were rude and initially refused to serve a policer officer, but have not been fired yet for their actions.
The drive-thru clerk at a Pembroke Pines southern Florida Arby’s refused to serve a white policewoman that was in uniform and in her patrol car. The manager of the Arby’s was forced to give the cop her food. The CEO of the company has apologized but that barely makes up for the blatant disrespect shown to a police officer that has done nothing wrong.
Broward and Dade County Police Benevolence Association declared that the apology was not enough and asked supporters to boycott Arby’s until the employees are fired. With the recent rise in random attacks on police officers, there is an issue that needs to be addressed.
The clerk, 19-year-old Kenneth Davenport was “short” with the officer when she was ordering food and when she drove to the window, the manager, Angel Mirabel, said the clerk didn’t want to serve her because she was a police officer. Davenport was forced by Mirabel to run the credit card. The clerk has since taken back his comment to blame the manager, saying he was only joking but nobody believes him.
The officer was obviously upset and no longer trusted the safety of the food so she was given a refund. The apologies offered by Arbys are nice but no apologies have come from the two employees involved. One would hope that Arbys is smart and fires them both. The matter of distrust between cops and black citizens is not something to joke about.
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