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Old Mar 13, 2017 | 7:08 am
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Originally Posted by tom911
About the only authority a person flipping burgers has is to order you out of his establishment and not want you as a customer. They cannot detain you, arrest you just for looking at the burger menu (unless you committed a crime such as beating or robbing them), or force you to go into a back room and be searched outside of public view. If you're scared of someone flipping hamburgers, are you just as scared of 7-11 clerks wearing a company outfit, or someone collecting tickets at an athletic event/concert that may be in uniform?

CBP has police powers, whether they wear a uniform or not, and the question is whether they're abusing those powers. I'm concerned about some recent reports and the impact it's going to have on the tourism industry in the U.S. I just can't see how that has anything to do with hamburgers.
The Burger King has been known to throw people into his dungeon from time to time.
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