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is that all the evidence you got? oh dear. Anyone can ring the police over anything. You wasn't there and don't know what happened.

The boss has apologised for her actions.

They had no rights to use the toilet as they were not customers ,they had no right to plonk themselves down without being a customer ,the boss has said sorry because maybe his back was against the wall with idiots shouting racism

other people who weren't buying anything, who happened to be white, were also sitting there

they were even questioning it themselves

They were told not to use the toilets and didn't. If you look online there is no starbucks policy they can refuse you a seat. White customers in the shop were also sitting down without a drink too were the police called on them too?

Again you are presuming the boss has said sorry because he was 'against a wall' any proof of that, Chuff?

Yeah it's interesting. Nowhere in the article does it state the reason the police were called, or whether these two men were rude to staff/other customers. Witnesses state that they had done nothing wrong, Starbucks are apologising and have said that the police shouldn't have been called. Proof enough, but people are still trying to make out as though these men have done something wrong. Happens all the time.

Easier to shoe-horn recent news stories into their anti-police bashing, "anti-PC" agenda than it is to read the specifics of what happened, I guess.

If they two guys were causing trouble and being rude I am sure none of the other customers would have sided with them either.

They refused to leave after the police had asked them to 3 times..they were then arrested and released without charge.

They refused to leave after the police had asked them to 3 times...thats a bad attitude.

but WHY were they asked to leave prior to that

'if you ask to use our restroom, we'll call the police on you' yeah that makes total sense

They came in, asked to use the toilet...the lady used her judgement and said no..then followed up on that judgement by asking them to leave...they refused leaving her nonoption but to call the police.....


They then refused to leave 3 times when asked by the police so were arrested.


I think the womans judgement was spot on.

A lot of places don't like you using their toilets unless you patronise their business, I also feel a bit rude when I have done it , only ever do it when I've been desperate. but I would never just go and sit in a café etc , just to wait for someone , I would always buy something. This isn't about skin colour, it's about attitude.

well her 'judgement' obviously had some sort of hidden agenda behind it because if they were 'so suspicious', i sure the other people sitting in the cafe would've felt it

instead they were all questioning why they had been arrested for no reason at all

again with the attitude :laugh:

again, many other people were sitting without buying anything but they weren't arrested

And starbucks refused a police officer the use of thier facilities last year...

Again, the whole 'attitude' thing cropping up, despite no evidence suggesting that they had an attitude. So desperate to make these men look guilty, for what reason? :shrug:

It comes down to manners , you either have them or you don't :wavey:

i don't see how that's not relevant to this discussion

if you're trying to compare that to this situation then was that police officer arrested?

But she phoned the police!!!

but yeah you're right, the desperation of trying to make these men look guilty is :unsure: strange.

but the reason is probably obvious.

yeah but why were they singled out and arrested for it when other white people were doing the same thing?

No, i think he had the decency to think of the paying customers, so he did what any decent person would by dropping it and leaving...

They were asked to leave for a reason,they may know these men,they maybe trouble makers,none of us were there so we don't actually have any proof either way, but I really don't think they would have been asked to leave if something hadn't cracked off, what would be the point :? shrug: I may have no evidence of attitude just as you have no evidence of them doing nothing.

Were you their ? I doubt it so you don't know that is fact, they could have said anything that people were not aware of,you don't call the police for nothing.