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Sitting In Starbucks While Black
- Thread starter LionPride
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? It's not like Starbucks corporate did this. It was just a single store.
It's not Starbucks that is the issue (although the employees reactions is pretty telling), it's their customers I don't want to deal with.
I see people set up camp in Starbucks and not order anything ALL THE TIME. And these guys were just waiting for a friend before they ordered like gentlemen.
Fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
Wonder which employee called
In a situation like this you go for the top
In a situation like this you go for the top
Why do American police slap then handcuffs on before even speaking to people. Seems like it could have resolved with a conversation.
They spoke for a very long time. Watch the YT video from a different person.
I'd never go into a starbucks without buying something specifically to avoid shit like this. I'll get a small coffee and just sip it once an hour if I have to. Fuck that. Not even giving em the excuse to try me with that bullshit.
My friend who works a Starbucks actually started calling police on people basically running their businesses out of the Starbucks because telling them to leave repeatedly wasn't cutting it. There are plenty of people who basically treat it as a lounge where they don't have to do anything except maybe buy a small coffee in the morning and stay there all day. It's weird.
Absent such a history in this case, though, seems like the simpler explanation holds.
Why wouldn't they wait outside or order something small? I would feel kind of awkward by just chillin in there lol.
Obviously calling the police is an extreme and they should have been first asked to purchase something or vacate. (Not sure if this happened based on the video)
Obviously calling the police is an extreme and they should have been first asked to purchase something or vacate. (Not sure if this happened based on the video)
What? The definition of trespassing is entering a place you are banned from. If it's true then that explains the accusation of trespassing. But again, no one is saying it's true. It's just what some girl "thinks she heard" (which you even repeated). Chill.
All of that time talking and they really couldn't come to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong whatsoever? That this whole thing was a big waste of time and there is some racist asshole working there?
Pretty fucked up situation. Im surprised this happened in Philly of all places with how diverse the population is here :/
Yup.
So the officers said "Trespassing". Now we have confirmation.
They came in to use the bathroom then proceeded to wait. The attendant said they need to purchasing something or she'll call the cops. They refused, cops were called.
Cops told them to leave. They stood their ground, as they did nothing wrong. Cops arrest them.
Black cops gotta feel embarrassed as fuck in that scenario.
So turns out the violation is trespassing...
But nobody's banned or has ever been. They simply refused to comply with their order to leave. So please.. continue trying to put that status on these gentleman and look like a fool.
I'd be curious how busy the store is. Most Starbucks locations are pretty permissive about just letting people sit around all day, so long as there's seating available for actual customers. I've certainly heard that super-busy downtown locations will police their cafes pretty strictly though if it turns out that non-customers are taking up all the seats and preventing paying customers from being able to sit down.
It's kind of weird to hear this coming out of Starbucks at all, because they are arguably one of the chains that is the most permissive of loafers and loiterers. They shouldn't be calling police unless someone has outright refused to leave.
Yeah, I dunno. I've only seen the baristas get firm with loiterers once in my own experience—even the homeless guys they've left alone (don't poke the bear, I guess.)
Starbucks definitely has the reputation of being a place to loaf around, I'd agree. I'd have bought an overpriced brownie for my waiting time, but otherwise I would have done what these guys did. Had a whole insurance meeting in a Dunkin Donuts once.
The customers that were standing up for the guys getting arrested??
The police zerg rush to intimidate people into surrendering immediately. They're interested in doing whatever it takes to make you compliant, including playing on your primal survival instincts that tell you not to fight when you're surrounded by armed people.
Lol, I got bodied by this. Sarcasm can't be picked up over the internet, huh.
This
I'm black, btw.
Nah...
Or his current form...
Oh god he's the fucking worst.
My dad hates that clown
Learn to read bro and you're wife's anecdotal experience means nothing.
Clarke sure does love that extra biscuit.
Why you gotta call him a racist?!
Same here. I'm too fucking paranoid, man. Gimme the cheapest thing on the menu and I'll sit that cup next to me for the next 3 hours until I'm done with my homework.
ok my bad but people post shit like that 100% serious all the damn time
we're obviously not at the point where posts like that can just be assumed as sarcasm
There's no defense for this.
Why arrested, why handcuffs? How many armed assholes do you even need in there? (the answer is 0).
I mean damn.
Why arrested, why handcuffs? How many armed assholes do you even need in there? (the answer is 0).
I mean damn.
I'm sorry but I just have a hard time believing this
Dead bodies.......
Drug dealers openly selling dope in a coffee shop? What time was this and what would they have done if a cop decided he wanted a cup of joe and walked in? Most dealers try to avoid jail if they can help it, arranging and carrying out a drug sale in a place as public as starbucks is not a very smart thing to do
Its all too much, moreover I don't see how any of it is relevant here. These guys were not dealing drugs, they did not hit the manager or any employee, they were not homeless or stalking anyone. They are also very much alive and don't appear to be ex-employees
It's unfortunate that that's currently the case. Probably not the best decision in hindsight but humor is how I deal with these overwhelmingly ignorant and racist situations.
You know Ben Carson is black too right? So it's not like an 'Oh, Okay' qualifier.
Drug dealers have been using McDonalds as their personal office for decades. And dealers will just do the same thing they do any other time a cop walks around, they hide it. We are also in the middle of an opiate crisis. Some of you guys don't know what it's like to work fast food.
Some straight up fucking bullshit. So many times I've seen sketch looking white dudes with patchy beards leeching wifi and they are a-ok. Honestly shit like this infurrates me. I don't care so much for myself but it's bullshit that my kid can't enjoy the same privilege and respect as his white friends.
People dying at Starbucks is not entirely unheard of. They just OD in the bathroom but if it's a busy enough location they'll be discovered before they expire.
http://trumbull.dailyvoice.com/poli...heroin-overdose-in-trumbull-starbucks/616178/
TRUMBULL, Conn. — A 24-year-old Stratford man found unconscious in the bathroom of a Starbucks in Trumbull died of a suspected heroin overdose, the Stratford Star reported.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gwen-kenny-staddon-coroner-report-fentanyl-1.4038654
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed 16-year-old Gwyn Kenny-Staddon died in a Port Moody Starbucks washroom from an accidental overdose of heroin and fentanyl.
https://news24-680.com/2016/04/04/h...cks-sunday-spotlights-recent-influx-of-users/
NEWS24/680 readers who were present at the time expressed their shock and concern Sunday after a 17-year-old teen was discovered in the bathroom at the Theater Square Starbucks – unconscious and with a heroin needle still in his arm.
http://trumbull.dailyvoice.com/poli...heroin-overdose-in-trumbull-starbucks/616178/
TRUMBULL, Conn. — A 24-year-old Stratford man found unconscious in the bathroom of a Starbucks in Trumbull died of a suspected heroin overdose, the Stratford Star reported.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gwen-kenny-staddon-coroner-report-fentanyl-1.4038654
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed 16-year-old Gwyn Kenny-Staddon died in a Port Moody Starbucks washroom from an accidental overdose of heroin and fentanyl.
https://news24-680.com/2016/04/04/h...cks-sunday-spotlights-recent-influx-of-users/
NEWS24/680 readers who were present at the time expressed their shock and concern Sunday after a 17-year-old teen was discovered in the bathroom at the Theater Square Starbucks – unconscious and with a heroin needle still in his arm.
The whole thing is some bullshit but why not just take the L and leave? I mean you're not going to win against the cops with a call like that. Business wants you to leave, cops will make you leave in cuffs if they have to. You can't even get people to care when folks are getting shot/killed by cops, you're not going to make a statement holding your ground in Starbucks. I dunno, this country sucks.