He wanted it his way.
A Georgia sheriff was so ticked off when Burger King botched his order that he called for backup.
Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens’ Whopper-sized beef with the fast food eatery was caught on newly released bodycam footage — which shows the top cop sending his deputies to the restaurant after the staff allegedly got his order wrong, according to a report by WSB-TV News.
Three deputies were dispatched to the scene — with lights flashing and sirens blaring.
“Hey, do me a favor,” Owens tells a deputy while sitting in his truck in the parking lot of a local fast food outlet. “I need to get, all I need is the owner name of whoever owns this damn facility, or manager.
“I wanted [to get his female passenger] a Whopper, no mayo, cut in half, right?” he said. “I don’t need no damn money back no more. I just need to find out who owns this place so I can do an official complaint.”
The deputies are seen approaching the restaurant, where freaked out Burger King employees had locked the door and had to be coaxed to let the cops in.
“Nobody is in trouble. We just want to get some names,” one deputy tells the assistant manager. “That guy out there, he’s just going to file a complaint for his food.”
The incident happened on March 4, 2023, but bubbled up last week in the midst of Owen’s reelection bid — the sheriff’s challenger for the job, David Cavender, posted the three bodycam videos online on Friday.
“I think it’s an abuse of power,” Cavender spokesman Mike Dondelinger told WSB.
“I’m shocked the sheriff feels so flippant about this issue that he would have deputies run lights and sirens, placing citizens at risk and his deputies at risk, just so he could get information from a business owner that clearly could have been followed up on another day,” Dondelinger added.
Meanwhile, Owens told the outlet it was jut a business dispute.
“I was not in my uniform, and at no point in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself as a member of the law enforcement community,” the sheriff said.
“At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call,” Owens said. “Whether as a Command Sergeant Major, or a major in the Cobb Police Department, or as sheriff, I have always worked to build confidence and trust in leadership.
“To our citizens and residents, it is clear that I need to work harder, and I pledge to do so,” he added. :Anything that takes away from that mission is a distraction, and for that, I am deeply sorry, Owens said.
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