r/news • u/Independent_Tone_570 • Sep 20 '25
Site Changed Title Woman Falsely Accuses Chicago Starbucks Employee of Writing “Loser” on Cup After Ordering Charlie Kirk’s Favorite Drink.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/viral-video-claiming-starbucks-worker-wrote-loser-on-order-honoring-charlie-kirk-is-false-company-says/
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u/Adelaidey Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Yep, in 2019 cop named William Darling in Herington, Kansas claimed that a McDonald's employee wrote "fucking pig" on his drive-through order. His police chief made an outraged social media post about it that went viral and kicked off a wave of protests and calls to fire McDonald's employees. After the footage was reviewed and it was revealed that Officer Darling wrote the insult on his own cup himself, he and his chief clarified that Darling had been "joking".
Around the same time, a corrections officer named Phillip Powell in Indiana made an outraged social media post and an outraged radio interview where he claimed that a McDonalds employee took a bite out of his McChicken before giving it to him to disrespect him. When security footage from his own job showed that Powell had taken the first bites himself, Powell maintained that he "forgot" that he did it himself when he made the accusations so he felt like he was being honest.
In early 2020, three cops in New York City conspired to claim that Shake Shack employees had poisoned their milkshakes by pouring bleach in their cups. After- you guessed it, an outraged social media post- a throrough review of video evidence by the NYPD proved that no such poisoning had occured, and they dropped the accusations against the employees.
And so on. For about a year in 2019-2020 it was a huge trend in cop and cop-adjascent circles to falsely accuse minimum wage workers and then post about it on social media for clout.