No one who works at McDonald’s cares enough to do anything like this.
The Chief was so quick to try to get sympathy that he didn’t even think his cop could be lying and that is exactly what happened.
The police department in Herington, Kansas announced Monday evening that an officer has resigned after lying that a McDonald’s employee left a derogatory note on his coffee cup.
In a Facebook post that went viral over the past weekend, Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday shared that one of his officers purchased a coffee at an area McDonald’s only to find a receipt with the words “f***ing pig” attached. In the post, which has since been deleted, Hornaday wrote the McDonald’s apologized to the officer and offered a free lunch, according to a screen capture by local NBC affiliate KSNT. “No thank you,” he wrote. “A Big Mac and large fries doesn’t make up for [the slur].”
But McDonald’s later shared surveillance footage with the police department that proved no employee was involved with the incident, Hornaday said Monday. Instead, the incident was “completely and solely fabricated” by the police officer.”
The McDonald’s and its employees had begun to receive threats after the incident occurred, Hornaday confirmed.
While apparently intended to be “a joke.” Hornaday described the officer’s actions as “absolutely a black eye on law enforcement. He added that he hoped the officer “understands the magnitude of the black eye that this gives the law enforcement profession from coast to coast.”
Then you wonder why people don’t trust cops.
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