Kato Mele, the owner of a coffee shop in Lin-Mast, just found out the damage social media

can do to a thriving enterprise.

On Facebook, Ms. Mele's daughter Sophie said the shop would never host a coffee with a

cop event.

She said that cops are bullies.

She's adamantly heavy police.

After getting pushed back online, she doubled down.

She said that police uphold an unjust system and the police commit murder without consequence.

Well, a firestorm erupted.

Ms. Mele fired her daughter and wrote an apology to the police.

She called her daughter's remarks distasteful, biased, and hateful.

She said the word police officers do is heroic, and that her daughter should never have linked

her own personal views to the business.

Well, none of that stopped the storm.

Some of the comments posted by those offended by Sophie's anti-cops posts were just as

adamant as Sophie's posting.

Hosted by all of this, Ms. Mele announced the coffee shop would be closing.

Her business shut down less than two weeks after a hateful post appeared on social media,

put there by her own daughter.

Now, I have a suggestion for Sophie who's now looking for work.

You know, if you thought about calling the NFL Players Union, they don't like the cops,

either.

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