By Police1 Staff
MCDONOUGH, Ga. — Walmart has apologized after employees deemed an officer’s “Thin Blue Line” cake “racist” and refused to make it.
An unnamed police officer’s daughter went in to get a cake for her father to honor his dedication to service in law enforcement. After asking for an American flag in black and white with a blue stripe, she was turned down when a Walmart employee told her “the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” The Telegraph reported.
The officer’s daughter then asked for a cake with one blue line on a chocolate background and the employee told her she didn’t “feel comfortable” making that cake either.
Family friend Taylor Wilkes took to Facebook to criticize the company’s behavior.
“There is nothing racist about the symbolism behind the ‘thin blue line,’ yet people choose to make everything about race,” Wilkes wrote. “I’m so tired of it.”
Since the post, the Walmart manager has met with the family to apologize and offered a gift card, items for the party and to make the cake as originally requested, the publication reported.
In a Sunday post, radio host Todd Starnes was told by the daughter that she accepted Walmart’s offer to make the cake, but the result “looked terrible.”
Exclusive: @walmart workers refuse to decorate cop’s retirement cake. https://t.co/eC1oyS5Ocb
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 25, 2016
“I work in retail,” the officer’s daughter told Starnes. “If I didn’t want to deal with a customer — and said ‘No’ — I would get fired.”