Chick-fil-A issues a groveling apology after Black cop is forced to pay for meal while White cops were free

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109. It's unseemly and unprofessional.

Especially these days where you can pay for stuff simply by tapping a card.

Where do you draw the line?

Free coffee, free lunch, guys stopping by saying, "This is a nice place, it would be a shame if anything happened to it...."

In many parts of the world, including some places in the United States, the police and organized crime coexist or are indistinguishable from it.

It's not all Maybery RFD.

The 99% white town where I grew up was very unfriendly to people who did not "belong." Mostly that meant black people, who couldn't drive through town without getting pulled over by the police, who couldn't shop or eat in restaurants without the police showing up to casually observe them. The town claimed to be one of the safest places to live in the U.S.A.. It was too, if you were an affluent white person.

As a young adult traveling throughout the Western U.S.A. I recall small towns that were almost feudal states controlled by one or two families using the local police as their enforcers. Yes, the local police got free lunches. So did the sheriff deputies on the rare occasions they stopped by. I don't know what else they got for free.

There are many small towns and cities in the U.S.A. that would love to have a Chick-fil-A on their main street and I'm certain that Chick-fil-A is adept at greasing these wheels of commerce as local custom demands.