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F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

Living about a mile from Skid Row and about 50,000 homeless people, usually whenever the homeless are asked to leave a business they do so. We all know the rules.
 
Comparing the one time a drunk white guy was asked to leave to two sober black guys who were waiting to meet someone is not helping your case.
 
Does Starbucks pay rent so that people can just loiter? Buy a cafe latte for 3 bucks and you're good.
 
palmab03 said:
Living about a mile from Skid Row and about 50,000 homeless people, usually whenever the homeless are asked to leave a business they do so. We all know the rules.
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Yeah. That’s the thing. I’ve seen plenty of homeless looking people in Starbucks and never seen an employee tell them to get out.

Random story. One time I was back home eating dinner at a 4-star restaurant owned by a friend from high school. A guy we had seen wandering through another part of town the day before came in wearing tattered clothes and a reflector jacket.

A few customers (mostly well dressed white people 60+ years old) said hey to him and he said hey back. He sat at the bar and the server handed him a menu. He order something and sat at the bar. In a few minutes, they packed him a to go box. Didn’t see any card or cash exchanged. He waved to a few more folks and left.

I don’t know the back story but do know the owner is a stand up woman who goes out of her way to help people.
 
Though back in the day I've definitely ordered one coffee and then sat there for like five hours doing homework, scoping out chicks.
 
palmab03 said:
Does Starbucks pay rent so that people can just loiter? Buy a cafe latte for 3 bucks and you're good.
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The friend they were waiting for before ordering arrived as they were being led out in handcuffs.

Your schtick is not called for in such a terribly insulting situation.

I do have question for most of you. Since I don't drink coffee or go to Starbuck's, do you get free refills for regular coffees at Starbuck's?
 
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If you have "Gold" status in the Starbucks rewards program, you get a free refill on any coffee (iced or hot).

I can't even begin to count the number of times I've waited for someone at a Starbucks without ordering first and never gotten so much as a side eye. Yay for being a white guy!
 
Alabama police shot a teen dead, but his friend got 30 years for the murder

“This is certainly an uncommon case,” said Jeree Thomas, the policy director of the Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYG). “The defendant’s accomplice wasn’t even involved in the killing, it was a totally third-party, but they prosecuted him anyway.”

Marcy Mistreet, the CFYG chief executive, added: “It just speaks to the excessive power that prosecutors have in our system to even seek these kinds of charges.”
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But even Scheidegger, who has been called the country’s “most outspoken advocate for capital punishment”, thinks the application was excessive in Smith’s case. In large part because Smith was effectively convicted of the murder of someone who – legally – was not murdered. A grand jury ruled A’Donte’s death a justifiable homicide after determining that the eldest of the group, then 19-year-old Jhavarske Jackson, fired at officers and that Washington was carrying a gun.
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ACLU-PA Statement on Arrests at Philadelphia Starbucks

In its statement, the ACLU of Pennsylvania noted that Police District 9 (Center City west) and the Police Service Area in which this happened have the highest racial disparities in pedestrian stops in the entire city. The ACLU’s most recent report on stop-and-frisk from 2017 shows that 67 percent of stops in the police service area where the store is located are of African-Americans. Meanwhile, Black residents account for just three percent of the area’s population. In its statement, the ACLU of Pennsylvania called on District Captain Danielle Vales and Lieutenant Jeffrey Rabinovitch, PPD’s leaders in District 9, to correct these disparities and end racial profiling incidents like the one on Thursday.
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Diante Yarber: Police kill black father with barrage of bullets in Walmart parking lot

California police fired what sounded like more than 30 bullets at a packed car in a shopping store parking lot, killing a black father of three and injuring a young woman in the latest US law enforcement shooting to spark backlash.

Police in Barstow, two hours outside of Los Angeles, killed 26-year-old Diante Yarber, who was believed to be unarmed and was driving his cousin and friends to a local Walmart on the morning of 5 April. Police have alleged that Yarber was “wanted for questioning” in a stolen vehicle case and that he “accelerated” the car towards officers when they tried to stop him, but his family and their attorney argued that the young father posed no threat and should not have been treated as a suspect in the first place.
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Yarber was also driving his cousin’s car at the time, which was never reported stolen, said Aleta Yarber, Diante’s aunt, who said she has since retrieved the car and that it did not appear it had rammed into police vehicles. Police did not respond to inquiries about the claims that Yarber was a car theft suspect.

Aleta’s son was in the car at the time of the shooting, but the bullets missed him. In the weeks since, “He has not been able to say much of anything,” she said. “It was very traumatizing.”
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Wichita Police Officer In Fatal 'Swatting' Prank Won't Face Charges

In the 911 call last December, a man told police that he was calling from inside a Wichita house — and that he had just shot his father and was holding other relatives hostage. In reality, police say, the call came from Tyler Barriss, who was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with involuntary manslaughter.

As for why Barriss might have made such a call, multiple reports have described him as a gamer who was angry with an opponent over a small bet in a Call of Duty game. The other player had reportedly given Barriss a fake address — which turned out to be Finch's.

Finch was the father of two young children. When a large police response team arrived at his house early in the evening of Dec. 28, he came outside the house; seconds later, he was killed.
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2 men arrested at Philly Starbucks speak out on 'Good Morning America'

 
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/outrage_growing_over_black_wom.html
The new cellphone video, which was captured early Sunday by Clemons's friend Canita Adams, depicts Saraland Police officers speaking briefly with Clemons before pulling her down off a chair and onto the tile floor of the Waffle House.
Three officers stand over Clemons as they pull on her arms and try to flip her over so she can be arrested. In the course of the altercation, her clothes are pulled down to reveal her breasts as white patrons continue to eat in the background.
"What are you doing?" Clemons asks at one point, to which an officer responds, "I'll break your arm, that's what I'm about to do."
She was ultimately arrested at about 2:45 a.m. and booked on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to Clemons-Howard, who said she paid Clemons's $1,000 bond Sunday morning.
The whole incident was precipitated by a dispute over plastic utensils.
Clemons asked for plastic utensils while placing an order at the Waffle House on Industrial Parkway in Saraland early Sunday morning, and was told by a female employee that plasticware costs 50 cents, according to Clemons-Howard.
When Clemons and Adams told the employee that they had not been charged for utensils when they purchased food from the same Waffle House the night before, the employee canceled the order, Clemons-Howard said. At that point Clemons asked for the contact information of the Waffle House district manager who oversees the Saraland location.
"They didn't even ask her to leave, she was waiting for them to give her the district manager's card so she could file a complaint on one of the waitresses," Clemons-Howard said. "When they went to go get the card, that's when the police showed up. The officer should've come in and said we need you to leave."
 
And today's white people call the police on black people for a ridiculous reason...

No charges were filed against two women who say their group of African-American female golfers was discriminated against by Grandview Golf Club's ownership and staff on Saturday.

"No result on our end, no action," Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel said on Monday. "We were called there for an issue. The issue did not warrant any charges. All parties left, and we left as well."


The two women, Sandra Thompson, 50 and Myneca Ojo, 56, were originally at the club, located at 2779 Carlisle Road, Dover Township, with three other friends, sisters Sandra Harrison, 59, and Carolyn Dow, 56; and Karen Crosby, 58.The five are part of a larger group known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the county, they said.


On the second hole of the course, the group was told they were not keeping the pace of play by former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, who identified himself as the club's owner, they said.


Later, the women were told they had taken too long of a break between the first and second halves of the course. They were then asked to leave, offered their membership money refunded, and the police were called.


By that time, only Thompson and Ojo remained. The other three had left because they were traumatized by the alleged harassment, they said.
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Playing as a fivesome with groups behind you and not keeping up with pace of play definitely should be a misdemeanor at minimum.
 
They were keeping up with the pace of the group in front of them.
 
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