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@Starbucks The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us when we do the same thing. pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci
— Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 12, 2018
Starbucks issued an apology after a video of two black men getting arrested inside a Philadelphia location went viral.
On behalf of the company, the CEO expressed Starbucks’ deepest apologies to the two men as the company is doing “whatever they can to make things right.” In the apology, the company also says they plan to investigate the facts and conduct “necessary changes to our practices that would help prevent such an occurrence from ever happening again.”
