I saw the employees call the cops on a homeless black man for daring to walk back and forth on the public sidewalk outside the business (I mention his race because we ALL know how dangerous it is for black people when interacting with police, especially those with mental illnesses, such as this man visibly has). He'd been harassed by patrons on the patio of one of the other bars and had become pretty agitated, but wasn't hurting anyone or doing anything dangerous. He was just pacing back and forth. A man was following him from about a foot behind telling him over and over that he had to leave, which was obviously and unnecessarily making the poor guy more upset.
A woman who had been sitting at Argus' patio gave him a cigarette and he calmed down considerably but the employees continued to attempt to have him removed from the area. By the time the police actually got there, he was quietly leaning against a lamp post doing NOTHING. When he was treated with kindness and humanity and spoken to in a reasonable way he calmed down. Shocking!
I live about a five minute walk from this place so I go all the time, but I won't be returning after this experience. I don't support unnecessary antagonization of the homeless. They are people and residents of the city who are allowed to occupy public spaces. I also don't support calling the police when a simple conversation can resolve the problem. No one was in danger. No laws were even being broken. These cops did not escalate the situation, but they could have and things could have taken a terrible turn.