Arrest of two black men at Starbucks for 'trespassing' sparks protests
Restaurants, snack bars, or whatever have a perfect right to ask you to leave if you don't buy something.
If you don't go you are a trespasser and they can ask the police to boot you.
Protesters targeted a Philadelphia Starbucks on Monday after two black men were arrested last week when a store employee called police to say the men were trespassing.
The protests followed the release of a video that showed the two men being arrested after a store manager called the police because they were sitting in the store without placing an order.
The two said they were waiting for a friend who arrived just as they were taken away in handcuffs.
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The arrests have caused a PR crisis for Starbucks.
Kevin Johnson, Starbucks’ CEO, said he was hoping to meet the mayor, police and hopefully the men who were arrested in an interview on Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Johnson called the arrests “reprehensible”.
“I’d like to have a dialogue with them so that I can ensure that we have opportunity to really understand the situation and show some compassion and empathy for the experience they went through,” he said.
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