Coffee Shop Leaves Campus of Boise State U. After Students Complain About Owner Supporting Police
“I believe that they should have never been brought to campus and if it can be reversed it should be.”
Supporting the police can now get you canceled on a college campus? And Democrats think taxpayers should be forced to make this free?
Campus Reform reports:
Coffee shop bullied off campus over owner’s support for police
A small coffee shop at Boise State University in Idaho has closed, just months after opening, in response to student complaints about the owner’s pro-police views.
After backlash from the student government and calls for the university to cancel the restaurant’s contract, the owner closed the shop voluntarily, leaving several students unemployed. Earlier in 2020, BSU began looking for a coffee vendor to replace a Starbucks at the school’s library, choosing a small coffee shop named Big City Coffee and Café.
During a meeting on Sept. 7, the Inclusive Excellence Student Council (IESC) condemned the decision to bring the restaurant to campus, only several days after Big City Coffee had its soft opening. Members of the IESC expressed concerns over the shop owner Sarah Fendley’s pro-police beliefs and the display of the Thin Blue Line flag at the coffee shop.
“We are supporting an organization that blatantly supports the Thin Blue Line and every Black person I know has stories of being treated unfairly at this place,” member Alyssa Wainaina said. “I believe that they should have never been brought to campus and if it can be reversed it should be. Not reversing it sends a statement across the campus.”
“There should be more marginalized student voices on this. You need to find a way to cancel this contract because every marginalized student knows about this affiliation and that it is a dangerous place,” Wainaina added.
Fendley defended her pro-police beliefs, stating that she is engaged to a police officer who was previously injured in the line of duty, according to KTVB 7. Fendley’s fiancé, Kevin Holtry, lost his leg after suffering multiple gunshot wounds in a crossfire with a felon in 2017.
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Inclusive Excellence Student Council excludes ideas it doesn’t agree with.
I hope the new shop lessor is Gil’s Grilled Liver and Brussels Sprouts.
Until University presidents start expelling these students for their demonstrated hostility to the purpose of education, universities will continue producing students who are a threat to free, tolerant society.
[“We are supporting an organization that blatantly supports the Thin Blue Line and every Black person I know has stories of being treated unfairly at this place,” member Alyssa Wainaina said.]
Interesting that she can tell such a blatant lie (“every Black person I know has stories of being treated unfairly at this place”) and literally no one challenges her on it.