The police officer crying in that viral Egg McMuffin video wants you to know she’s ‘sick of people being mean’

“Everybody lost the whole point of the video,” Talbert, a sheriff’s deputy in McIntosh County, Ga., told NBC News. Talbert’s tearful 2½-minute clip accusing the staff at her local McDonald’s (MCD) of withholding her breakfast order because she’s a cop — and possibly even tampering with it — went viral on Twitter (TWTR) on Wednesday. Both fast food incidents have served to further highlight the growing tension between police officers and the communities they serve, as well as the backlash against police and the widespread protests against racial injustice and police brutality in the weeks since Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks were killed during their encounters with law enforcement. Read More...