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Philadelphia: Protesters Shut Down Starbucks over Racial Discrimination

HeadlineApr 17, 2018

In Philadelphia, protesters disrupted and shut down operations at a downtown Starbucks, after a viral video showed two African-American men being accused of trespassing and arrested by police for being inside the coffee shop. On Monday, the community group Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild organized a sit-in inside the Starbucks.

Protesters: “Starbucks coffee is anti-black, a whole lot of racism, a whole lot of crap. If we can’t get it, shut it down! If we can’t get it, shut it down!”

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has apologized, and the company says the manager is no longer working at that store, although it’s unclear whether she has been fired or just relocated to another store.

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