{"id":511257,"date":"2026-01-12T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:56:10","slug":"starbucks-roasted-after-barista-hands-la-cop-extremely-offensive-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511257\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks roasted after barista hands LA cop &#8216;extremely offensive&#8217; image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles deputy sheriff\u2019s 16-hour shift quickly turned into a disrespectful spectacle when a Starbucks barista served him coffee in a cup featuring a hand-drawn image of a pig.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77653631;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38160576\" width=\"954\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/los-angeles-county-sheriff-s-118791599.jpg\" alt=\"A Starbucks coffee cup with a hand-drawn illustration of a pig on it.\" class=\"wp-image-38160576\"  \/>The LA County Sheriff\u2019s Department spoke out after one of its deputies was served a cup of coffee with a hand-drawn image of a pig. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>The incident was slammed as deeply concerning and demeaning to law enforcement, by the Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s Department in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LosAngelesCountySheriffsDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0bVmkeJET531Ht1YRqRirHSm6CyK8SmsmPiAhy8CPGkDMwURfNpCqZacEa6oYL7BVl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38160634\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/l-county-sheriff-robert-luna-118792013.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna speaking at a press conference on hate crime.\" class=\"wp-image-38160634\"  \/>LA County Sheriff Robert Luna\u2019s department slammed the incident as \u201cextremely offensive\u201d in a statement. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action was extremely offensive, inappropriate, and unacceptable,\u201d the statement read. \u201cDisrespectful actions will not be tolerated against our personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deputy, whose identity was not released by the department, later posted about the Jan. 9 incident on his private Instagram account,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/starbucks-employee-delivers-coffee-to-l-a-deputy-with-hand-drawn-pig-on-cup\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to KTLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Post is coming soon. Sign up for updates.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet in early. Be the first to know about launch and home delivery.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt discouraging and disrespectful, especially after a long day of serving the community,\u201d the deputy wrote. \u201cAll I wanted was caffeine, but instead I left feeling uneasy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff immediately escalated the matter and contacted the company\u2019s corporate security division to formally raise concerns and ensure accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles deputy sheriff\u2019s 16-hour shift quickly turned into a disrespectful spectacle when a Starbucks barista served&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,15713,2961,224,5337,7207,22195,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-511257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-coffee","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-starbucks","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115883185853584835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}