Watched the whole video. Cops showed incredible restraint.
-I’m a middle aged white guy and I know I can’t just go in and sit down with out buying anything.
-The white guy that got lippy should have gotten a ride in the name of equality.
-You are being questioned by the cops and you are screwing around on your phone?
-No one reached in their pocket to get a brother a cup of coffee or a scone?
Whole thing takes over 10 minutes. Why it lasted more than a minute, I don’t know. They didn’t buy anything and were asked to leave. They didn’t leave. How many pretty’s do you have to put in front of the please?
The beauty is that this isn’t a Chik-fil-a, its the high Church of Progressives where they get their daily dispensation along with the body and blood.
Want to have fun, run their rap sheets…
All I know is, Starbucks is going to get pretty smelly with all the homeless people that now know that Starbucks is a free-for-all.
I’m pissed that starbutt is bending over and having their re-education camp for their employees in May. I rarely buy their coffee as I think $4 or more for a cup of coffee is a bit much. Believe it or not I probably buy their high priced coffee 3 or 4 times a YEAR !
It’s outrageous to see a line of cars backing out into the main road lining up to go through the drive through kiosk at starbutt for their machlattechinochaiskinnyfrappe.
Well my 3 or 4 cup a year just got cut down to at least half or less. BTW, I’m 0 for starbutt this year.
Just another reason to patronize local places with true gourmet coffee. I just drink it black with an occaisional shot of espresso if I’m dragging. Starbutts seems to only offer “blends” - quality beans mixed with who knows what. Well meaning loved
ones keep giving me gift cards so I bring guests along to use them up quickly.
If I’m meeting someone for coffee in order to have a meeting or a friendly chat, I don’t expect this to happen to the people I’m going to meet.
If it was in reference to some sort of construction work those guys might be dressed for work, not making Yuppies comfortable.
I’ve had their coffee, it’s not worth all this drama.
Do think it’s funny being who what they are but they used to be ok with folks just hanging out did not know they changed it
Ironic is for the idiots they hire would like to see surveillance tape but why bother hahahahahahaah
Me too, and I live in the suburbs of this city. However, I’ve walked into plenty of places and not bought anything. Usually for the same reason they did. I was waiting for someone. Never had a problem. Friend shows up with 5-10 min and orders are placed. .
When it comes to Starbucks I see it often. People just sitting around on their laptops or phones, or with a book and no coffee or food in hand. Starbucks here have always been a place where people just hangout. Especially in that area. It’s a huge business area with lots of yuppies who work and live near by. Not to mention several hospital campuses, expensive 5 star restaurants and steps away from city hall. If you’re a college kid or a young millionaire it’s the place to live and work
The most amazing thing is that the concentration of attention is on how good the Starbucks microagression or implicit bias training is.
I’ve said it before; if I end up in white privilege training, I’m going to get up and walk out. If asked why, I’ll say that if there is white privilege, I don’t have to stay. If I have to stay, that means there is no white privilege, so we all get to leave.
Implicit bias, gender training, income inequality. We are past ‘first world problems’. Past ‘white people problems’. We are in the ‘looking for problems’.
Weren’t they in there for something like 4 hours before being asked to leave, first by employees then by the cops? Pretty sure that still falls under trespassing.
Private property rights and all that…
I’m also hoping the entitlement mentality, and “you’re racist if you don’t kowtow to us” attitude will lead to such a backlash that leftists will start leaving the US in droves so we real Americans can finally clean the country up.
Let’s get this straight. A 16 oz cup of coffee is $2.10 at Starbucks, not $4. That’s about twice as much as gas station coffee, but it is also ten times as good.
I can make good coffee at home for a hell of a lot less. Plus I don’t have to drink it in the company of hipsters, libtards, and other understandables.
Good Q, but seems we are short on facts and long on race bating BS with this one. Other then the manager asking them to leave and calling the po po when they didn’t, I have not seen any real time lines, etc on this thing.
That’s key to what I was saying earlier.
If I was meeting someone at Starbucks and was running late, the last thing I would want to see is the guys I was meeting being perp walked out the door because I was late.
If someone in your business is making you uncomfortable by their presence, maybe you should be nice and ask whats going on? I worked construction in my younger days and likely as not looked like a bum while wearing my work clothes.
I think if you combine the facts together and let the chips fall where they may, well, it might have been about race.
Honestly it probably was about race given how people usually use Starbucks and How Starbucks usually doesn’t care.
That being said none of the fault falls on the Officers. It doesn’t matter why someone is trespassed, once they are they need to leave. If the reason is discriminatory that falls under civil not criminal law. The officers don’t have discretion is removing someone, and they asked the people to leave a number of times. They should have left and then filed a complaint against the store once the police were involved.
would be so funny to do and see what happens