VIDEO: Walmart Apologizes After GA Employees Refuse to Make Cake for Retiring Officer

Walmart is apologizing for refusing to make a police officer’s retirement cake last week after an employee told the officer’s daughter that her “thin blue line” cake design might be considered racist.

The police officer’s daughter, who has remained anonymous, told radio host Todd Starnes that she went to a Walmart in McDonough, Georgia on Thursday to ask for a cake with the American flag in black and white with a blue stripe added in.

But one of the employees at the bakery balked at the common police officer emblem, telling the woman “the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” she recounted to Starnes. When she asked for a simpler cake, with just one blue line on a chocolate background, the employee said she didn’t “feel comfortable” with that design either.

The police officer’s daughter eventually went to Kroger to have the cake made, according to Taylor Wilkes, a police officer and friend of the family.

A Walmart spokesperson said in a statement the company regretted the incident, according to WTVM: “Our goal is to always take care of customers. But sometimes we misstep.”

In a post dated Sunday, Starnes wrote that the daughter took Walmart up on the offer to remake the cake. But the result “looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”

Starnes shared a photo of the cake, which showed a thick and lumpy blue line of frosting surrounded by the words “Blue Lives Matter” in white, off-center text, Macon.com reports.