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Last week, I promised I would not allow my awesome visit to Taco Bell headquarters and the warm welcome I received there to prevent me from sharing hard truths about Taco Bell when they come up. This week, I am put to that test.

In the wake of the various instances of police and anti-police violence that have rocked this country, a Taco Bell cashier in Lee County, Ala. turned away a pair of hungry Sheriff’s deputies and told them that the Taco Bell does not serve cops. The employee in question has been canned, unsurprisingly.

CNN has more details:

Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones was not happy with how his deputies were treated.

“I’m very disappointed that simply because they were uniformed law enforcement officers that our deputies were treated in such negative fashion. We pride ourselves in giving people basic respect and only ask the same in return,” Jones said in a statement. “We won’t base our opinion of Taco Bell on one employee’s negative action any more than the general public should base their opinion of law enforcement on the negative action of one officer.”

A Taco Bell spokesperson said that in addition to firing the cashier, who was not identified, the fast food chain apologized to the sheriff’s department.

So there’s that. And kudos to Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones for pointing out that it’s not really fair to base one’s opinion of Taco Bell or even the particular Alabama Taco Bell in question on the actions of one bad Taco Bell employee.

These are emotional times, the nature of which extends far beyond the scope of This Week in Taco Bell. But this site believes firmly that Taco Bell is for the people, and that no hungry would-be Taco Bell consumer of any race, creed or occupation deserves to be denied Taco Bell unless he or she represents an obvious and imminent hazard to the safety or well-being of the other patrons or Taco Bell employees.

There’s a lot to be made of what’s going on in our world right now, and perhaps a lot that needs to be done about it. But we don’t need to make any of it about Taco Bell. Taco Bell should be a sanctuary from the never-ending onslaught of heartbreaking and awful and terrifying news we seem to face daily, not the source thereof. That those two cops wanted Taco Bell better helps me identify with and understand them, as I also want Taco Bell.

Deaf woman to sue Taco Bell for discrimination

A New Jersey woman alleges that two Taco Bell locations denied her service at drive-thrus because she is deaf and attempted to communicate her order by writing it down and handing it through the window. From Time:

“Plaintiff learned not only that Taco Bell restaurants are inaccessible to deaf individuals, but that Taco Bell employees and managers are inadequately trained and improperly informed about the communication rights and needs of deaf people,” the lawsuit says….

“Our client has brought this case not only to address the harm caused to her, but to ensure that Taco Bell and its franchisees have proper policies in place and train its staff on how to accept simple orders from deaf individuals,” Attorneys Eric M Baum, Andrew Rozynski and Deaf Liaison Sheryl Eisenberg-Michalowski of the Eisenberg & Baum Law Center For The Deaf and Hard of Hearing said in a statement.

A Taco Bell spokesperson told TIME that Taco Bell has not yet been served with the lawsuit, so it cannot comment on it at this time. “However, Taco Bell has a fundamental policy to respect all of our customers and employees, and we are committed to maintaining an environment free of discrimination or harassment,” the Taco Bell spokesperson said in a statement. “We do not tolerate discrimination in any form, and we have a strong policy to provide accessible service to all of our customers and fans.”

Well, this is just a bleak week for Taco Bell news. Here’s hoping the alleged incidents in New Jersey, if true, again reflect the actions of rogue Taco Bell employees rather than some sort of institutional failure by Taco Bell on the whole. Seems like it’d be that, since it’s more or less impossible to fathom Taco Bell or any other fast-food chain maintaining a corporate policy that turns away potential paying customers.

Hey, let’s turn to some lighter Taco Bell news…

More from Taco Bell headquarters

In addition to the Facebook Live session, my trip to Taco Bell headquarters and experiments the test kitchen also produced this more polished video, featuring test-kitchen footage not seen on Facebook and a bunch of background shots of hilarious Taco Bell stuff. Huge thanks to our video guy Jason, who joined me on the trip to shoot this but could not eat nearly as much Taco Bell as I did because he had to hold a camera. Must have been torture:

Taco Bell coming to Las Vegas strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a pretty great place to spend a couple of hours and a downright awful place to spend a few hours. Starting this fall, it will feature a two-story, 24-hour Taco Bell Cantina location which, like Taco Bell Cantinas elsewhere, aims to serve booze.

Before I next wind up in Vegas, I will probably Google a bunch of restaurants run by celebrity chefs to eat at while I’m there. Then once I’m there, I will probably start drinking and lose way too much money in way too little time. And sometime shortly thereafter I will wind up in that new Taco Bell on the Las Vegas Strip, drowning my sorrows in nacho cheese like I so often do. It will be delicious.