SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco restaurant has ignited a social media debate when the owner and staff asked three uniformed and armed police officers to leave saying their weaponized dress made them feel uncomfortable.In response, the police chief tweeted that he was disappointment and discouraged with the anti-welcoming post.
The public conversation comes at a time when the nation is grappling with a defund the police movement on the one hand, and an opposing call for increased officers to deal with a rising number of homicides and retail thefts on the other.
The controversy was kicked off when the staff at Hida and Jesse in North Beach posted on Instagram what happened from their point of view when three officers walked in to the.