Cops Go Full-Hypocrite at Restaurants

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 Pete Eyre 1471 Views Arby's, coercive interaction, consensual interaction, Dylan Donnelly, incentievs, james crooker, jennifer martin, Jimmy Johns, john langley, Joshua Scott Hotchkin, market signals, minneapolis police department, ostracism, pembroke pines police department, philadelphia police department, Police Union, Portland Police Department, red and black cafe, reputation, restroom use for customers, Starbucks, supply and demand, tax evasion, video, voluntary interaction

In a handful of headlines recently we’ve seen that police make a fuss when they are refused service at local eateries. That’s interesting, as police themselves do not engage in voluntary interactions.

All the bellyaching in the world won’t change the fact that police who demand consensual interactions while themselves engaging in coercive interactions are just plain hypocritical.

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Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.