Contrary to an unsubstantiated claim in a since-deleted tweet by the Detectives’ Endowment Association on Monday, three NYPD officers were not, in fact, poisoned by Shake Shack employees in Manhattan this week. According to NBC News, the officers were hospitalized on Monday night after having milkshakes at the fast-casual burger chain and then released from the hospital that night.
New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison later tweeted that an investigation found “no criminality by Shake Shack’s employees,” and CBS News reported that the incident was accidental and “possibly the result of cleaning solution that wasn’t properly removed from the shake machine.”
In the hours after the officers went to the hospital, though, the news of their supposed poisoning was shared widely on social media by police unions and right-wing figures like Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
In a statement tweeted on Monday night, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York claimed, “At some point during their meal period, the MOS [Member of Service] discovered that a toxic substance, believed to be bleach, had been placed in their beverages.”
The union went on to urge its members to carefully inspect any prepared food they ordered, to dine in groups of two or more whenever possible, and to “remain vigilant” during their meals.
“It is clear that [the] environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level,” the PBA wrote in its tweet, seemingly conflating the current nationwide protests against racism and police brutality with a poisoning that didn’t happen.
While many law enforcement officials later retracted their initial claims, the fact remains that the NYC PBA and the Detectives’ Endowment Association publicly accused restaurant workers of a crime before even investigating it.
As Vice writer Katie Way noted back in March, there is a long history of police officers’ falsely claiming to have had their food tampered with. In July 2019, for example, Indiana corrections officer Phillip Powell claimed a McDonald’s employee had taken a bite of his McChicken before serving it to him, only to later recall that he had been the one to take a bite of the sandwich. In December of that year, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea claimed that a plainclothes police officer was served a razor blade in his deli sandwich, before later dismissing the incident as an accident. And that same month, a police officer in Kansas resigned after saying that McDonald’s employees had written “fucking pig” on his cup, and then admitting that he had written the words himself.
In an interview with Rolling Stone today, folklorist Benjamin Radford explained that “there’s a long history of food contamination legends,” and that given the current political climate, the milkshake story should have immediately raised red flags in people’s minds. “Instead of thinking it may have been a mistake, or machines weren’t fully cleaned — which happens all the time — the first thing people went to is this was a targeted, intentional assault on police officers, and you can see why given the current climate they would jump to that.”
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