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In reply to the discussion: The Starbucks thing... [View all]BumRushDaShow
(130,573 posts)would be to get witness testimony on the spot and assess what happened and THEN make a decision (to include the Public Accommodations Law) to do some common sense arbitration.
Starbucks bills itself as a "social gathering place" and includes sofas and soft chairs and whatnot in there. The establishment is created for lingering.
The WHITE guy who these 2 were meeting showed up and that could have ended it right there but instead the police made an idiotic decision to shove pies in their own faces that will reflect on the department and I hope they get taken down because of it.
The whole point of "Community Policing" is to DIFFUSE shit like this. It's one thing if the 2 guys were yelling profanities and harassing other customers but they weren't.