{"id":244,"date":"2010-06-04T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=244"},"modified":"2010-06-04T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:49:05","slug":"another-reason-why-i-want-to-leave-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason Why I Want to Leave Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Red & Black Cafe is no place for a man in blue.
\nPolice Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com.
\nCrooker, 36, a 2-year veteran of the force, entered the on May 18 and bought a cup of coffee before a customer approached him and said she appreciated his efforts.<\/p>\n

That’s when John Langley, one of the co-owners of the collectively managed shop, approached the cop and asked him to leave.<\/p>\n

Crooker left immediately. It was the first time something like this has happened to him in his nine-year law enforcement career, he told.
\n“This is Portland,” Wheat told FoxNews.com. “We have been dealing with that for years and years and years. It’s a very liberal<\/span> leftist city. We have anarchists here and we deal with them on a regular basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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