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In reply to the discussion: The Starbucks thing... [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Again - you assume that, once called by the manager, the police had no choice but to tell the men to leave or arrest them. But there were a range of things they could have done - many of which have been explained in great detail but rejected out of hand by you - before arresting them, if they really just wanted them to leave the store. The point was to get the men to leave, not "to remove them" as you claim. They did nothing to get the men to leave beyond ordering them to - they went straight to removing them, as I've said before, is just bad policing, regardless how much you try to defend it.
And no, I didn't take the manager's word for it. If you actually read my whole post, you would have seen that I called into question her claim that she didn't want them arrested. But it's a convenient defense, consistent with the one you're making - that the cops were powerless to do anything other than arrest the men because the manager wanted them out of there.
But it's clear that you are not interested in any other point of view - and that your OP asking if you were "missing anything" was really little more than a statement of your unchanging and unchangeable point of view, not an effort to actually gather new information or insights. You believe what you believe and nothing I or anyone else says is going to change your mind.
But with every parsing, in-depth and, puzzlingly adamant post, you ARE proving the point that many of us are making.