Atlanta gym bans police officers, members of military from joining

[Bill the Cat]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlanta-...inkId=40765135

ATLANTA -- An Atlanta gym owner has banned police officers and military members from working out at his facility.

Jim Chambers put up a sign on the door of EAV Barbell Club that used an expletive to announce that police aren't welcome there. Chambers tells WXIA-TV that his gym has "had an explicitly stated 'No Cop' policy" since it opened. He says active members of the military also aren't eligible for membership.

The gym posted a photo of the sign on its Instagram account with the caption "We simplified our membership policy."

The Atlanta Police Department tells the station that the policy wouldn't prevent them from responding to an emergency at the gym.

Chambers says he's taken the sign down due to its vulgarity, but plans to replace it with a clean version. He told the station that people who work out there are generally minorities who are uncomfortable with law enforcement.

[seer]

He told the station that people who work out there are generally minorities who are uncomfortable with law enforcement.

What if they were uncomfortable with gays or transgenders - the left would go crazy, but I bet they will applaud this!

[Sparko]

I think idiots do stuff like this for free publicity.

[Mountain Man]

What if they were uncomfortable with gays or transgenders - the left would go crazy, but I bet they will applaud this!

Police officers and members of the military aren't a protected class.

[Catholicity]

Police officers and members of the military aren't a protected class.

In private business no one is. IF you follow the letter of the law. but we seem to be past that now. I would organize protest about equality means equality.

[Mountain Man]

The only time liberals care about the law is when they can twist it to their advantage.

[Cow Poke]

He told the station that people who work out there are generally minorities who are uncomfortable with law enforcement.

In other words, the local criminal element is beefing up for their eventual stints in prison.

[Cow Poke]

In private business no one is. IF you follow the letter of the law. but we seem to be past that now. I would organize protest about equality means equality.

I would be tempted to open up a gym next door for cops, vets, and concealed carry permit holders.

[KingsGambit]

That's really sad.

[Sparko]

I would be tempted to open up a gym next door for cops, vets, and concealed carry permit holders.

Better yet a donut shop/shooting range!

[firstfloor]

[Cow Poke]

It seems to be another hysteria-driven comment on the phony liberal stereotype of rampant and wide spread police brutality and attacks on civil liberties.

FIFY

It's not surprising at all that actually swallow this cow poop.

[firstfloor]

FIFY

It's not surprising at all that actually swallow this cow poop.

[Cow Poke]

Of course I am! You're one of my favorite hooligans! What made you think I wasn't speaking to you?

So, like a snowflake, he doesn't want to try to resolve the problem - just isolate himself from it. Very cowardly. And very typically hypocritical leftist "inclusion".

Now, do you see how fair I am being compared to your biased diatribe?

Nope.

[Terraceth]

I can understand the logic for not letting police officers in, even if I think it's stupid, but the argument about police brutality making minorities uncomfortable in having the police around doesn't make any sense for banning the military.