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I wasn't referring to a particular situation, just the idea of the police getting involved being logical for any business. Maybe the Philly case was a false positive, but I'm sure that store deals with the non-paying customer issue constantly. Maybe the employees just didn't want to deal with it - yet have gotten complaints from customers - so immediately calling for help is prolly understandable, and you can't expect the baristas to be perfect analyzers of everything happening in the cafe in between slinging cappuccinos.

Pretty sure it was the manager who called the cops and not the baristas, but,ya know... who needs facts?

05-08-2018 , 11:54 AM

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GTO2.0

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You know, they call them baristas to make it sound fancy but Starbucks employees aren’t like highly skilled artisan coffee brewers. They are expected to clean bathrooms, wipe down tables, arrange chairs, take out garbage, and do all sorts of other bull**** menial tasks that come along with working that kind of job. Dealing with customers, even problem customers, is a part of that. You can’t just say, well their job is just to make coffee so we can’t hold them to the impossible standard of “talking to people every once in a while”.

05-08-2018 , 02:06 PM

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No one was asking them to deal with like an obviously mentally ill person or someone making trouble, they basically denied some black guys use of the bathroom and then called the cops on them for not ordering. The cops show up and immediately start treating these guys like criminals. See the issue yet?

05-08-2018 , 03:23 PM

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again, I'm not referring to a specific case only..

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Racism aside, it’s amazing that the way businesses deal with loiterers at Starbucks or a golf course is to call the cops instead of like walking up to them and asking them to leave.

and my point is it's not even close to "amazing" - more like expected when you consider the context and the environment where these incidents occur.

05-08-2018 , 03:28 PM

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yes, and as someone who spends close to 1000 hours a year at SBUX, I can tell you when they get busy all those other jobs besides making drinks and taking orders get pushed aside. And they definitely will not be mediating the behavior of all the customers in the store.

05-08-2018 , 03:56 PM

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Johnny Truant

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yes, and as someone who spends close to 1000 hours a year at SBUX, I can tell you when they get busy all those other jobs besides making drinks and taking orders get pushed aside. And they definitely will not be mediating the behavior of all the customers in the store.

Sounds like they need to kick you out a little more. You are certainly sucking up more value than an occasional black kid waiting for his friend before he orders his drink.

05-08-2018 , 03:59 PM

#5057

+rep_lol

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lol 4 hours per workday, wtf

05-08-2018 , 04:10 PM

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Off-duty cop draws a gun on convenience store customer he suspected (he was wrong) of stealing a $1.19 pack of Mentos

05-08-2018 , 04:15 PM

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Black Airbnb guests checking out of their rental get the cops called on them by neighbors for suspected burglary

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It was an entirely routine moment: Four people exited the home they had rented on Airbnb in Rialto, Calif., and loaded suitcases into their car.

Within minutes, several police cars had arrived and the group was being questioned as a helicopter flew overhead. A neighbor who didn’t recognize them had reported a possible burglary, the police said.

They were in fact four creative professionals in town for an event. Now the three black people in the group are suing the Rialto Police Department, saying they were unfairly treated during the April 30 encounter.

“Got surrounded by the police for being black in a white neighborhood,” one of the guests, Donisha Prendergast, a filmmaker and a granddaughter of Bob Marley, wrote on Instagram.

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Ms. Fyffe-Marshall said the officers came out of their cars, demanding the group put their hands in the air. At first, the renters “joked about the misunderstanding,” she said, but the situation escalated after 20 minutes when a sergeant arrived.

The sergeant didn’t know what Airbnb was, “insisted that we were lying about it and said we had to prove it,” Ms. Fyffe-Marshall said. She showed the officers their booking confirmations and called the landlord, and the group was detained for 45 minutes, she said.

05-08-2018 , 04:27 PM

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Off-duty cop draws a gun on convenience store customer he suspected (he was wrong) of stealing a $1.19 pack of Mentos

Should be in the Law and Order thread as well. **** that cop. Firing is the least of what should happen. Brandishing a firearm is a crime and he had absolutely no reason to do it.

05-08-2018 , 05:00 PM

#5061

MrWookie

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Black Airbnb guests checking out of their rental get the cops called on them by neighbors for suspected burglary

Goofy,

You can't possibly expect scared neighbors not to call the cops on black people! It's not their job to assess who is safe and who is a burglar!

05-08-2018 , 05:16 PM

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Johnny Truant

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Now they know how Manafort feels.

05-08-2018 , 05:27 PM

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Now they know how Manafort feels.

Nice one. You don't do a lot of zingers, but your batting average is very high.

05-08-2018 , 05:43 PM

#5064

whosnext

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Now they know how Manafort feels.

well played

05-08-2018 , 08:11 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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Ay yo, speaking of vagrants who don't pay for their stuff:

05-09-2018 , 06:44 AM

#5066

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by businessdude

You can tell he's a Business Dude because he calls it SBUX!

And only the Top Tier of Business Dudes spend 15-20 hours a week in coffee shops, presumably on guard to call the cops if someone spills their coffee or doesn't throw out their newspaper.

05-09-2018 , 02:11 PM

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GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin questions the "cognitive thought process" of veteran Democrats

Saying the quiet part out loud, that the GOP doesn't really give a **** about The Troops unless it can be used to advance their political goals:

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"I'll tell you, the Democrat Party has wholesale rejected the Constitution and the values that it was founded upon," he said.

"So I'll tell you what: Those veterans that are out there in the Democrat Party, I question their cognitive thought process because the bottom line is, they're signing up to defend the Constitution that their party is continually dragging through the mud."

05-09-2018 , 03:23 PM

#5068

micro dong

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Ay yo, speaking of vagrants who don't pay for their stuff:

When are Trump's detractors gonna stop getting BTFO?

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Ex: Schneiderman called me ‘brown slave,’ slapped me until I called him ‘Master’

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman says.

Harvard-educated activist writer Tanya Selvaratnam told the New Yorker magazine that her yearlong affair with Schneiderman “was a fairytale that became a nightmare” — and quickly escalated into violence in the bedroom, even as he begged for threesomes.

“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did,” Selvaratnam said.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/ex-sch...ed-him-master/

05-09-2018 , 03:58 PM

#5069

Huehuecoyotl

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Sounds like Trump should resign if this guy did.

05-09-2018 , 04:00 PM

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Johnny Truant

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JFC. What is it? That kind of ambition is just inseparable from being a **** head?

05-09-2018 , 04:10 PM

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JFC. What is it? That kind of ambition is just inseparable from being a **** head?

I think there's a high corellation and a lot of people suggest that power corrupts, but I think a lot of people who become powerful were *******s to begin with.

05-09-2018 , 04:50 PM

#5072

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https://twitter.com/ABC7Brad/status/993918551730900992

05-09-2018 , 04:55 PM

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PoppaTMan

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‘$500 and he’s a ghost’: Man accused of enlisting white supremacists to kill his black neighbor

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A South Carolina man tried to enlist a white supremacist group to kill his black neighbor and burn a cross in that person’s front yard, authorities say.

Federal investigators say they learned of Brandon Cory Lecroy’s plan in March after a confidential informant told them that the 25-year-old had reached out to a white supremacist organization and said he needed help to kill his neighbor, a federal complaint says. The following day, March 20, an undercover FBI agent spoke with Lecroy, who offered payment for the job.

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Lecroy gave information on when to best commit the killing and talked about plans to take over his neighbor’s property, the complaint says. Lecroy also said he wanted an untraceable 9mm handgun with two “clips” and told the agent that he has more jobs for him in the future, the complaint says.