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In March 2018, a café in Oakland, California became the focus of national attention after one of its owners refused to serve a uniformed police officer. Hasta Muerte, a collectively run, worker-owned coffee shop in the Oakland neighborhood of Fruitvale, confirmed the policy in a 22 February Instagram post: The café owners added, we need the support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police. The image accompanying the post read: Habla con tus vecinxs no con la policia, which means Talk with your neighbors, not with police. According to local reports, the would-be customer on 16 February 2018 was Sgt. Robert Trevino, who is president of the Alameda County branch of the Latino Peace Officers Association and a former homicide investigator who now patrols the Fruitvale district. A few days after the incident, Oakland Police Officers Association President Barry Donelan wrote to the café's owners, expressing concern and requesting clarification of their policy: Donelan also offered to meet in person with the owners of Hasta Muerta Coffee, but he told us that there had been no response from the café. The Hasta Muerte café is located on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland, a mile north of the Fruitvale train station, where a transit police officer shot and killed Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009. Grant's killing became a landmark case of police brutality, prompting widespread protests and contributing to what would later become known as the Black Lives Matter movement. On Instagram, Hasta Muerta café wrote: We asked the owners of Hasta Muerte whether the ban applied only to uniformed police and if it also extends to other law enforcement and public safety officers, but we did not receive a reply in time for publication.
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