Deputies in uniform denied service at local Burger King

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ST. FRANCISVILLE – Two Assumption Parish sheriff’s deputies wearing a department uniform were denied service while visiting a St. Francisville restaurant recently.

The department’s public information officer, Lonny Cavalier, discussed the incident in a newspaper editorial and later with an internet blog followed by those in the law enforcement community.

Cavalier said the two deputies were attending a training seminar and stopped at the Burger King when they were not allowed to order.

Employees laughed, Cavalier said, through the drive-thru speaker when deputies asked if they could not get food because they were law enforcement.

Cavalier said the deputies were told they were out of food – from burgers to chicken – and received the snickering response when they asked for clarification.

“The only response was laughter,” he said.

Any discussion came after the deputies had to sit in their patrol car for a while before being greeted.

“They sat there for an extended period of time before someone finally let them order,” Cavalier told the Blue Lives Matter blog.

When one of the deputies tried to get the attention of employees at the window, they were ignored, Cavalier said.

“He could hear them inside laughing, but no one would come to the window.”

“They were embarrassed and humiliated,” Cavalier told Blue Lives Matter. “This is new for us. We’ve not had that kind of relationship with any vendors, ever.”

“What is troubling is that these same Burger King employees, in the event a robbery was occurring at the time, would have expected these two deputies to take a bullet for them, and those deputies would have,” Cavalier wrote in his editorial.

Cavalier told WBRZ, a man who identified himself as the restaurant owner demanded a retraction from the sheriff’s office and that service to various people had been denied, not just the two deputies and not just because they were deputies.

Burger King employees ignored phone calls from WBRZ Friday afternoon and when someone did answer, they hung up. After multiple attempts to get someone to answer the phone, an employee told WBRZ to call the owner and disconnected the line. Later calls also went unanswered.