They publicly suggested they issue with service was because they were officers (despite lack of evidence). The comment about robbery and the workers not being owed something sounds like a veiled threat. They used their job position to gain credibility and sympathy, thereby dragging the city into it.
My comments were about your comments about the owner. Now you're shifting to the employees, as if that was the context.
If you had some dumb fucking teens at a fast food joint pull this shit you'd do exactly the same as the cops? If so, suit yourself. I'd like to think most reasonable people would shrug it off and just go elsewhere. Or at the very least go talk to the owner. Not take the first chance available to rustle up torches and pitchforks. But hey, I'm tainted by remembering the pre-internet days.
I didn't only shift it to the kids. The owner handled it very badly knowing what his people had done.
Other people are able to complain about businesses. When one becomes a police officer do they lose the ability to complain?