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Police Unions, Shake Shack, and The Milkshakes of Machinations

If you went to bed early, you might have missed Milkshake-Gate bringing all the internet folks to the social media yard

Andrew Donaldson
5 min readJun 16, 2020
Shake Shack. Photo by Paul Sableman via Wikimedia Commons

If you went to bed early, you might have missed Milkshake-Gate bringing all the internet folks to the social media yard:

🚨URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE🚨
Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan. Fortunately, they were not seriously harmed. Please see the safety alert⤵️ https://t.co/D8Lywivhdu

— Detectives’ Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) June 16, 2020

Note this is the verified account of the The Detectives’ Endowment Association, representing 20K police officers, which did the amazing detective work of declaring three NYPD officers “were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan.”

The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, which represents some 50K police officers, used their verified social media platforms to jump all over the story:

#BREAKING When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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