So What Really Happened at the Brooklyn Heights Chipotle and Serving the NYPD?

Chances are some of your Facebook friends are outraged or “shocked, shocked” at the alleged behavior of employees at the Montague Street Chipotle.

The story goes something like this according to mythbusting site Snopes.com:

Employees at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Brooklyn refused service to eight uniformed NYPD officers after making a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture to indicate their distaste for the policemen.

The Facebook meme, seen here posted by someone decribing themselves as a teacher in the Brooklyn Roman Catholic Diocese reads:

However, this statement, Snopes says, is misleading and could be interpreted that all the employees at the restaurant were in league against the NYPD.

Chipotle has issues a statement and Snopes notes:

In short, Chipotle reviewed video footage of the NYPD officers’ visit to the Montague St. location and determined that what transpired involved not “the crew” of that outlet but a single employee who acted alone and has since been reprimanded. Chipotle has explicitly stated the behavior of that employee was neither condoned nor ignored (although they have not yet offered specifics of how the issue was handled). Chipotle confirmed that the eight NYPD officers were not denied service but rather left the restaurant of their own volition.

Ironically, the same Chipotle store caught heat in 2012 for offering NYPD officers a discount on meals.

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  • Joe A

    Guess you had nothing to back up your claim. So were you just lying or poor reading comprehension?

  • Joe A

    I like it.

  • Jeff Lachance

    Cops are such crybaby lil bitches

  • Jeff Lachance

    Lol the communist news network great….

  • Jeff Lachance

    What about the stupid pigs setting fires to buildings in ferguson ON THE JOB

  • Jeff Lachance

    You broke the law your a fuckin liar. Now come here so i can choke you

  • Jeff Lachance

    Im guessing the ol pull the first number thay sounds good out my arse tactic

  • ShinyNewHandle

    Flagging your comments. Get out of my RSS feed.

  • Heights Correspondent 1

    Something just reminded me of the
    insufferable AOL room monitors
    circa 1998…
    But to the subject; very very few
    New Yonkers understand that be
    sides the very real danger they con
    stanly live with, those who protect
    us ALSO have to deal with the
    Frustration of dealing with the geniuses
    at 1 police plaza and having to try
    to protect this city while having to
    Operate under to policy’s they make.
    Police often have largely conflicting
    directives or policy’s being produced
    from various levels of command.

  • Joe A

    Can I assume English is not your first language?

  • Joe A

    Hmmmmmm… You certainly sound like cindy. Same disjointed syntax, grammar, capitalization coupled with rather bizarre comments. Sure you’re not cindy?

  • Mookie

    Next time you are trapped in a 100 story building that is on fire and about to collapse, see who rushes in to try and get you out.

    It won’t be a politician.

  • ccar

    Maybe the employee was white and didn’t want to serve black cops. Is that OK then? Oh, and cops fdny ems etc actually do get to eat and use the bathroom, although they still have to take critical calls, even if on the toilet. You can’t make someone work 8, 10 or 16 plus hours without eating or using a bathroom.
    I’d like to see a world where individuals are judged and treated by others based on their character and actions, not race, gender or employment status.
    And yes, in my country and city descrimination is still illegal.
    We had sit ins to end this bs. People from nyc Died fighting descrimination in the 60s, go see the bells at queens college. It’s sad this Chipotle punk wants to bring that back. Don’t tolerate descrimination against anybody, for any reason; an assault on one person’s rights hurts us all.

  • R.J.

    So what if the employee raised his hands. Was his behavior in poor taste? Maybe…