I expected her story to be a lot different. She had to pull up because her food wasn't ready, and I assume it's because the order got mixed up or wasn't made since online orders can be like that sometimes, and because only her coffee was ready she assumed they could have been doing something to it because "she couldn't see it being made", which is something that you can't do in the drive-through nor if you order online.
That Shake Shack copaganda is working it's magic on the very people it was meant to affect.
The tension that she feels as an officer is real, and part of me does empathize since as fucked up as the institution is, it is just the average beat cop that has to answer for that tension, right or wrong. In a perfect world, they'd be quitting and joining the fight for substantive reform, especially since I'm sure many have stories of cover ups and unethical behavior even if they haven't seen the most egregious stuff with their own eyes, but instead we get stuff like this where a cop can only think of all the things she has felt she has personally done for others without getting recognized for it. At least, her saying that she'd rather pay for her own meal than let others pay for it shows me that she's probably not one of the cops that benefits from the discounts and free food and special treatment that other cops take full advantage of, feel entitled to, and even abuse (as someone that worked fast food at a place with cop discounts, I know this first hand), but the too often the "bad cops" are treated like the exception to the rule when people like this lady (at least in the case of special treatment over food) are the exception and all she can think about is how unfair it is to be a "good cop" and have the public opinion turn on her when the rest of the police force has no problem protecting "bad cops" and turning on "good cops" all the time.
Maybe this isn't just about the events for her, but her first experience with microaggressions not only did it terrify her that people didn't instantly treat her with fear, respect, or adoration, but her first conclusion was that they were trying to kill her.
That Shake Shack copaganda is working it's magic on the very people it was meant to affect.
The tension that she feels as an officer is real, and part of me does empathize since as fucked up as the institution is, it is just the average beat cop that has to answer for that tension, right or wrong. In a perfect world, they'd be quitting and joining the fight for substantive reform, especially since I'm sure many have stories of cover ups and unethical behavior even if they haven't seen the most egregious stuff with their own eyes, but instead we get stuff like this where a cop can only think of all the things she has felt she has personally done for others without getting recognized for it. At least, her saying that she'd rather pay for her own meal than let others pay for it shows me that she's probably not one of the cops that benefits from the discounts and free food and special treatment that other cops take full advantage of, feel entitled to, and even abuse (as someone that worked fast food at a place with cop discounts, I know this first hand), but the too often the "bad cops" are treated like the exception to the rule when people like this lady (at least in the case of special treatment over food) are the exception and all she can think about is how unfair it is to be a "good cop" and have the public opinion turn on her when the rest of the police force has no problem protecting "bad cops" and turning on "good cops" all the time.
Maybe this isn't just about the events for her, but her first experience with microaggressions not only did it terrify her that people didn't instantly treat her with fear, respect, or adoration, but her first conclusion was that they were trying to kill her.
