DEAD POLICE OFFICER “GOT WHAT HE DESERVED,” EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY CLAIMED
Citizens in Greenville, S.C. are up in arms over controversial comments allegedly made by an employee at a local Burger King restaurant. The subject? The fatal shooting of a city police officer.
First, let’s recap …
Last Friday, 28-year-old Greenville police officer Allen Jacobs – an Iraq War veteran with a pregnant wife and two young children – was shot and killed by 17-year-old Deontea Perry Mackey in the predominantly black Nicholtown neighborhood.
Mackey was a self-described gang member who just last month pleaded guilty to strong arm robbery in the aftermath of a botched drug deal over $10 of crack cocaine (police report .pdf here).
What happened? So far all that’s been established is that Jacobs and his partner were attempting to question Mackey, who decided to flee rather than face their interrogation. At some point during a lengthy foot chase that followed, Mackey repeatedly shot Jacobs – who shortly thereafter died of his wounds.
As police closed in on Mackey, he took his own life …
Jacobs was white. Mackey was black.
Not surprisingly, this case has exposed all sorts of raw emotion. For example, S.C. governor Nikki Haley has faced intense criticism from members of the law enforcement community for waiting several days to issue a statement on Jacobs’ death.
“I’m disappointed she didn’t make a statement via news outlets concerning the officer killed,” one Upstate cop told us. “She just made a Facebook post. Says a lot about how she feels about law enforcement.”
There’s also been plenty of controversy regarding whether Mackey should have been on the streets to begin with … although given the current status of Haley’s Department of Juvenile Justice (SCDJJ), we’re not sure he would have been any more or less a danger to society had he been locked up there.
Anyway, it is the comments attributed to a Burger King employee on Laurens Road in Greenville that have caused the deepest division.
According to a Greenville woman who posted her recollection to Facebook, the employee in question blamed Jacobs for the incident – saying he “got what he deserved.”
“The cop got what he deserved, messing with these kids for no reason,” the employee allegedly said, according to the woman’s Facebook post.
The woman’s recounting of the employee’s alleged comment has gone viral – with tens of thousands of people sharing it on social media. According to reporter Mandy Gaither of WYFF TV 4 (NBC – Greenville/ Spartanburg, S.C.), the local Burger King franchise has even launched an investigation into the incident.
Hmmm …
Obviously this website is very supportive of free speech – even hateful speech. But if such comments were indeed made on the job then we believe the franchise owner would be well within his rights to fire this employee (just as he would be if they had said Mackey “got what he deserved”).
In fact we know this to be true because South Carolina is a right-to-work state …
Seriously: People go to Burger King to get Whoppers, not social commentary. And while we obviously respect the employee’s right to make such comments, the fact they were offered in a workplace setting – even if the customer raised the issue – strikes us as extremely poor judgment.
In other words: Be needlessly antagonistic and unfeeling all you want … just do it on your own time.
And yes … we would like fries with that.
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This article is joke, right? Some ninny thought they heard something in a BK and got offended and wrote a dumb FaceBook post about it? This is news in SC?
considering how much time Haley devotes to Facebook…yes.
Seriously: I come to FITS for T-Rav updates, not real news.
(Couldn’t resist)
Who the hell still goes to Burger King? That place sucked 20 years ago, and I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better. Do they still sell the ground up chicken parts sandwiches or the mayonnaise and ketchup slop called a Whopper?
As to the comment, I’m going to take it with a grain of salt, the idiot who said it obviously isn’t smart enough or have the qualifications to do anything but work at Burger King.
This one is beside the Olive Garden. It’s more upscale. Lil bit.
Squish, i have to disagree on that it sucked years ago. Back in my college days in the 70’s, it was some good groceries for someone on a budget!
Tank, twenty years ago was 1996 maybe forty years ago in the 70’s it was good. McDonalds wasn’t all that bad in the 70’s either, sure do suck now though.
hey id. you’re right. 40 years ago on a budget, it wasn’t bad. but i do agree with you that they do suck now.
Math major?
oh yeah, can’t you tell?
Squish, I’ve been getting hammered about my math. :) I guarantee you the next time I respond to anything that involves math, I’ll have a calculator handy!
Very sad. Our state needs prayers now more than ever.
I haven’t eaten at a BK in close to ten years, maybe longer. Long after McDonald’s rejected the use of pink slime in their burgers, Burger King has yet to do the same. AFAIK, they are still using pink slime. The last few times I ate at a BK, I noted a decided trend they apparently were in towards hiring nasty-looking, scum-of-the-Earth type employees. Given the comments attributed to their employee in this article, it looks as though they have not totally abandoned that trend.
What a shame, too. I used to enjoy their hamburgers, 20+ years ago.
Update: I haven’t searched for references to BK and their use of pink slime in a while. I just did and found a couple of sites saying that BK says they no longer use pink slime.
Hey, I have to give them credit where due. The question remains as to whether or not their mayo still has a higher sperm count than the average male customer.
The early 70s were definitely their golden years. I still sometimes get a croissant breakfast sandwich and a coffee but I would let a lifetime free hamburger award go unused. Most of their employees are barely functional trailer park and project rejects, bless their hearts.
You are absolutely right about the 70’s being their heyday. I recall the one at near the intersection of 521 and the bypass near you. Used to be an Assistant Manager named Judy I. who worked there. Damn she was fine. Wouldn’t give me the time of day but she was fine.
preach on Taz and CIC! me and the old BK on College Street right across from the Horseshoe were on a first name basis back in the 70’s!
As an employee of BK, she was speaking as an agent of BK. Fire the bitch or be ready for some really bad publicity, boycotts, etc.
Glad the nigger killed himself! Hope the BK employee dies soon!
He went down with some street cred though. Done bagged a badge.
Remember folks, niggas are just gon be niggas !
A lot that did for him, homeboys will poor cheap malt liquor on his grave, others will piss on it.
Not been to a BK in over a decade, and I don’t eat any “fast foods” these days. The local population, close to that BK in Greeneville needs to boycott that establishment till it is “out of business”.
The manager was fired and she denies making the statement about the officer. The story is odd. Some customer comes in and chats it up with a cashier she is friendly with about the dead officer. The manager butts in with the he deserved it. So after the customer leaves BK she calls to speak to the cashier because the cashier was upset when she left???? Why was the cashier upset? How normal is it for a customer to call BK and check on a cashier? The customer at that time finds out the cashier was fired and then calls corporate BK to complain. So the customer was really more po’ed about the cashier being fired, than any statements the manager made. The manager said she was fired for firing the cashier. Weird, weird, weird – all over a Facebook comment. Like everything on the internet is true.
What? Are you trying to say it’s not all true? Get outta here!
:-)
If there is an opening at BK, maybe Nikki can get her daughter a job there.
Does this mean we can’t trust Burger King employees? The dream is over…
To all you Police Officers out there, you have my thumb’s UP. Don’t let the riff-raff get you down.
You mean riff-raff like you used to be?
Na, he probably means more like you are, right now.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that if the $10 crack rock wasn’t illegal both of these men would be alive.
Stunning logic. People kill folks while stealing non-contraband every day.
You deny this to be the case?
Your logic has not addressed my statement- as usual.
As usual? We have a history? Not familiar…
I’m afraid it did address your statement, you’re just in a different argument. I’m not diving into a mushy-headed debate about drug legalization. That’s like having sex with a girl when you’re a little too drunk – fun for a while, but everyone just ends up sweaty and bored 45 minutes later.
My point remains valid – neither the contraband nature nor the delivery method of that little rock was the cause of death for that officer – the responsibility for that lies solely and squarely with the mope who murdered him. Strongarm robbery is illegal regardless of the item stolen, contraband or not (and one could surmise that a jackass like the loser in question has surely robbed and stolen many times prior to the crack rock). By your logic, if he had been charged in the prior case with robbing a pizza delivery guy, the cause of death would then be the pizza. Only about 15% of the gun murders in the US each year are related to illegal drugs, so I guess pizzas and other assorted items killed all of those other folks…
He must have been stoned a day ago and probably still is.
Even though you as a former drug addict are probably most qualified to determine who is high when, you’re actually wrong this time.
Once an addict always an addict, nothing former about it. I just chose not to partake today.
“My point remains valid – neither the contraband nature nor the delivery method of that little rock was the cause of death for that officer ”
Bullshit. Your point is invalid.
” By your logic, if he had been charged in the prior case with robbing a pizza delivery guy, the cause of death would then be the pizza.”
Wrong!
Let’s run with your “pizza” example. Does a guy who is being charged with taking $10 for a pizza, even a 2nd time, get the same jail time as someone that does the same thing with a crack rock?
OF COURSE NOT. People don’t kill themselves over just stealing $10 Mike. But you know who might? Someone that has PRIOR drug charges and it looking at decades of incarceration over theft related drug charges.
Pull your head out of your ass.
Nonsense, people kill thrmselves (and others) over zero dollars with great regularity, many times more often than they do over illegal dope. Check the UCR numbers for yourself. Further, the penalties for strongarm robbery, armed robbery, etc. aren’t dependent upon the item stolen (value or contraband status). You don’t appear to be interested in facts, so I will punch out of this conversation with one of my favorite Ben Franklin quotes.
“You can’t reason a man our if a position he didn’t reason himself into.”
Namaste.
“Nonsense, people kill thrmselves (and others) over zero dollars with great regularity, many times more often than they do over illegal dope”
Are you are suggesting that the jail term for repeat drug charges, which carry long jail terms(as opposed to just robbery alone) had NO BEARING on why this young man killed both the officer and himself? I want to make sure I have your argument right Mike.
“Further, the penalties for strongarm robbery, armed robbery, etc. aren’t dependent upon the item stolen (value or contraband status). ”
Let me make sure I have this straight, are you claiming that an ancillary charges related to strong arm robbery associated with drugs result in the same jail time as that of a pizza?
Is that your argument? Do I understand those two facets properly?
if da niggas did not use the crack rock and sell it…no issue.
If it’s not illegal, it’s not an issue. The drug war has failed and continues to fail. If people want to drug themselves into oblivion, let them.
Elsie, this all sounds kinda booring. Any chance you might spice things up and show us your meat curtains?
Ding fries are done
Will, you might want to have an employment lawyer proof your articles. “Right to work” is related to a right not to join a union. I think you are talking about “at-will” employment. I am guessing this will turn into a defamation case instead of a wrongful discharge case. Stay tuned.
I have boycotted the Burger Kings in Greenville for years. They employ illiterate and hateful characters in their restaurants. I had one too many run ins with their “customer sucks,” employees in the past to ever eat there again. I never had any other problems at other restaurants while I lived in Greenville: just Burger King.
I’d suggest boycotting all Burger Kings in Greenville. Their food is horrible anyway, and it’s a good way to get rid of this public disgrace.
God gave the employee what she deserved Thursday and after she finally went to her knees
She joined Mackey in Hell with a lot of OTHER infidel blacks who were all turned 5,000 degrees !!!
Burger King is now a Black Lives Matter Terrorist Recruitment Center!
I think it is a employment qualification if one intends to be hired at Burger King. Maybe white people should do what black people do and boycott Burger King. Sadly white people do not hang together like that but maybe its time we should take a page from the NAACP handbook, if they have one like this, and support white owned businesses and white employees, and make sure we only buy white made products and services. Wonder how that would rile the black Miss America, the Black School Board Caucus, the Black pretty much everything now. They talk about racial divide, wonder who keeps dividing America. Oh well, it soon won’t matter since we will all be one slightly tan color in about 30 years.
WHAT…..??
“I’m disappointed she didn’t make a statement via news outlets concerning the officer killed,” one Upstate cop told us. “She just made a Facebook post. Says a lot about how she feels about law enforcement.”
Facebook is the news outlet..!! This is a sign that the legacy media will pounce on.
..and this…… “But if such comments were indeed made on the job then we believe the franchise owner would be well within his rights to fire this employee (just as he would be if they had said Mackey “got what he deserved”).” SO,… Wil Folks supports corporate speech CENSORSHIP..? So if this same worker railed against Burger King for NOT using 50% Local energy instead of fossil OIL that supports ISIS terrorists that the worker should also get fired.? If this is true then corporations have no blame for our WARS..?
Wil Folks……..you really need to consider your position. Are you going to fire your workers if they get in your face for certain advertisers that may or may not support corporate bribery in Nigeria or other dictatorships..? America is better than this and every workers rights far out weigh any corporate bottom line..! This is like requiring a jury to only get one side of a story…!!!