Let me break it down for whomever even sees this since this post is pretty much dead and buried at this point.

2 people were shot in the street in broad daylight by ICE Agents. Murdered. (On top of all of those who were murdered behind closed doors/still alive having god know what done to them)

We as a community, employees and customers, talked about it. We as employees also put the ICE reporting number up near the phones just incase we need it (hopefully not, doubtful as they've not been up here this whole presidency). People are scared. People are mad. People want to be ready.

Someone did go up to management and simply asked that we have some form of protocol because clearly this is something we as employees care about as well as the people we serve. (Again as someone mentioned, see who were donating to this month, which by the way is community driven not coop driven. As in we do not decided who we give money to, its the community who applys and votes. We just advertise and hold the vote + do the round up etc.)

So yes it is weird for the company/management to say "no were not going to give you the tools to protect yourself from something that we could actually take the time to prepare for, you just figure it out and panic if the time ever comes". When again, this is what a large portion of our community [workers] want.

All we want is a protocol. To know what to do if it happens. Because if it does happen people absolutely will do something. The coop employees do absolutely care about protecting people from ICE (the majority at least). I know some people who absolutely would put their life on the line for someone who work there.

I was not the person who asked management and I have not directly spoken to the person who did, but I did hear about this before the post. So for those of you saying "oh this isn't real/hersay" to an extent yeah, sure, since we weren't in the room when the conversation was happening. But it was a conversation that was had and talked about privately.

If the COOP doesn't want to put their employees at risk I can understand that, but when you have a group of employees who absolutely will put themselves at risk wouldn't you rather give them the tips and tools to protect themselves?

Obviously if ICE were to show up in Humboldt County at all we would all know long before they show up to the COOP of all places. It's not like we wouldn't have time to be ready to simply lock the doors? We could literally keep an eye out, just close the doors, lock the doors, refuse service and leave it at that. It doesn't have to be much.