Cooper’s Donuts was a Los Angeles coffee shop that was open 24 hours and situated between two popular gay bars. Queer people from the area, predominantly people of color, frequented the establishment despite the heavy police presence. Cops in this area were known for stopping people for no reason, particularly those whom they suspected were gender non-conforming. They would check IDs and if the ID did not seem to match the person they had stopped because of their changing gender identity, the person would be arrested for prostitution, vagrancy, or loitering. One night, when the police came around to begin arrests of gender-variant individuals, patrons began throwing donuts at cops which eventually escalated to fights in the street. All police records of this incident have conveniently disappeared.