For God's sake, buy a cup of coffee....

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

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....

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.

I think that asking for the bathroom code and not paying raised their profile. We don't know if they acted snitty to the workers about it. If they had just come in and sat down and waited, especially a few minutes, they probably wouldn't have had a problem. "We are waiting for our friend to order."

Something seems amiss here. Like the title says, buy a cup of coffee. Leave when asked. I agree that the arresting them seems really bad, but these guys brought it on themselves and had at least 4 different way to beat the ride.

I can't imagine sitting there and refusing to leave 3 times when asked by the cops. When you know you are in the wrong. I'd like to see security footage of the street. Their friend showing up just as they are arrested is interesting timing.

[Doc Safari]

I think that asking for the bathroom code and not paying raised their profile. We don't know if they acted snitty to the workers about it. If they had just come in and sat down and waited, especially a few minutes, they probably wouldn't have had a problem. "We are waiting for our friend to order."

Something seems amiss here. Like the title says, buy a cup of coffee. Leave when asked. I agree that the arresting them seems really bad, but these guys brought it on themselves and had at least 4 different way to beat the ride.

I can't imagine sitting there and refusing to leave 3 times when asked by the cops. When you know you are in the wrong. I'd like to see security footage of the street. Their friend showing up just as they are arrested is interesting timing.

It reeks of a setup, that's for sure. Everybody in retail had better watch their six: this may be the new lefty tactic for disrupting things.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

It reeks of a setup, that's for sure. Everybody in retail had better watch their six: this may be the new lefty tactic for disrupting things.

Like I said, the funny thing is that they went after Starbucks. That means that they are more profit than cause oriented. The only place holier than Starbucks is Whole Foods.

If you are black, go in there, get a buffet plate full and eat it with out paying.

[Doc Safari]

Like I said, the funny thing is that they went after Starbucks. That means that they are more profit than cause oriented. The only place holier than Starbucks is Whole Foods.

If you are black, go in there, get a buffet plate full and eat it with out paying.

It just smells of someone trying to set up confrontations that end in violence against blacks by the cops or something to further the Black Lives Matter movement.

[Honu]

I think that asking for the bathroom code and not paying raised their profile. We don't know if they acted snitty to the workers about it. If they had just come in and sat down and waited, especially a few minutes, they probably wouldn't have had a problem. "We are waiting for our friend to order."

Something seems amiss here. Like the title says, buy a cup of coffee. Leave when asked. I agree that the arresting them seems really bad, but these guys brought it on themselves and had at least 4 different way to beat the ride.

I can't imagine sitting there and refusing to leave 3 times when asked by the cops. When you know you are in the wrong. I'd like to see security footage of the street. Their friend showing up just as they are arrested is interesting timing.

have not read much but I also think it could be a setup like Doc said above
totally %100 would believe so
acting like idiots being rude and so on just to hope this happens and get a huge lawsuit payout over racism etc..

anymore so much of the so called hate/racial crime is fake and setup we are finding out
unless it happens to a white guy or conservatives then its crickets

[Averageman]

It just smells of someone trying to set up confrontations that end in violence against blacks by the cops or something to further the Black Lives Matter movement.

Has this been linked to BLM?
Do any of the Attorneys have associations or links to BLM?
Has anyone asked for a settlement?
Maybe it's a bit of Socialist Progressive Hipster Coffee snob Corporate big wigs vs BLM?

Or did a couple of lower middle class blue collar working stiffs waiting for a meeting make some liberal college students and Soccer Mom's nervous?

I really don't care how this turns out in my opinion, if it is BLM vs a Socialist Progressive Company that pushes over priced crap, they deserve each other.

If it's a couple of working stiffs that got treated like crap, a story got spun and caused all hell to break loose, well good on them

[ralph]

you have never had good coffee then hahahahahah

Second that..I've been to starbucks exactly once..coffee tasted like they used somebodys dirty socks as a filter, I dumped it out while stopped for a red light.. Worse coffee I ever drank, period. I'll never go back..

[SeriousStudent]

I'll just leave this here:

[26 Inf]

I use Starbucks for meetings all the time. Half the time I never buy anything there and have never been asked to leave.

That's where we differ, if I go into a convenience store and use their restroom, I always buy something, seems the right thing to do.

I couldn't imagine holding a meeting in a restaurant/coffee shop and not buying something.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

The only time I don’t feel guilty about not buying something is when I’m on a driving trip and I eat at McDs and make a pit stop at another one later.