Tyler Beveridge, manager of the Major League 2 Pub (located at 45768 Gaetz Street in
\nChilliwack) and the son of the owner of Sardis Liquor Store (located at 45610 Luckakuck Way).
\nin Chilliwack), recently put on an appalling public display of racial profiling inside Sardis Liquor
\nStore.<\/p>\n
Us Too\u2019s founder and director Michael Cooper recently dropped in to Sardis Liquor Store just
\nbefore the 11 pm closing time. As he walked through the store, he noticed that he was being
\nclosely followed by a man he neither knew nor recognized. He stopped walking and asked the
\nman why he was being followed. The man replied that he suspected that Michael was going to
\nsteal liquor from the store.<\/p>\n
[It should be noted here that Michael is a frequent customer of Sardis Liquor and that the store is his
\npreferred location to shop, and that he is well-known to most of the staff for his friendliness,
\nsense of humour, and jokes].<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the kicker: there were other customers in the store at the time of the incident, but only
\nMichael was aggressively zeroed in on and verbally proclaimed a suspected thief. Hmmm. The
\nother customers were Caucasian and Michael is Native and visibly tattooed on the face, neck, and
\narms.<\/p>\n
When Michael went to the till with his purchase, he was advised not to \u2018make a scene\u2019 because the
\nThe man who had gotten in his face was Tyler Beveridge, the owner\u2019s son. Michael replied that he
\ndidn\u2019t care WHO the man was; that singling him out as a suspected thief was racial profiling and
\nagainst his (Michael\u2019s) rights.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon of January 2, Michael went to Sardis Liquor to make a purchase and was
\ninformed by store manager Heather that he was now banned from the store by Tyler
\nBeveridge\u2019s order. None of the other staff present would speak against this asinine decision
\neven though they know full well that Michael isn\u2019t a thief. Michael told Heather that he would now be
\nposting the incident to all social media platforms as well as to the Us Too Advocacy website.
\nHeather replied that it would be \u2018callous\u2019 of Michael to publicize the incident online.
\nReally??<\/p>\n
The only way that racism and maltreatment of Native people is going to stop is if we stand up to
\nit and refuse to stay quiet when we experience or see it happening firsthand!
\nSardis Liquor Store and Major League 2 Pub deserve neither your patronage nor your
\ngoodwill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyler Beveridge, manager of the Major League 2 Pub (located at 45768 Gaetz Street in Chilliwack) and the son of the owner of Sardis Liquor Store (located at 45610 Luckakuck Way). in Chilliwack), recently put on an appalling public display of racial profiling inside Sardis Liquor Store. Us Too\u2019s founder and director Michael Cooper recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-need"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/10786066.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}