After calling Police to arrest 2 Black men sitting in a Philadelphia Starbucks store that caused thousands black people protested; Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized and will close 8,000 stores in all U.S. since May 29 afternoon for "Racial-bias education"
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
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| Police officers monitor activity outside as protestors demonstrate inside a Center City Starbucks, where two black men were arrested, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S., April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Makela TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY |
Watch Video od arresting 2 Black men at Philadelphia Starbucks Coffee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gegA9GsJ26A
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| The above photos from AP and other sources show the protests inside and outside of Philadelphia Starbucks store |
VietPress USA (April 17, 2018): On last Thursday, April 12, 2018, two black men who seated peacefully in a Starbucks Coffee store in Philadelphia were arrested by Police at a request calling to 911 by the female manager of that Starbucks store.
A video recorded the arrest has published by a white young lady on Twitter and it goes viral with at least 10 million watchers last week and this caused the Black Lives Matter protesting during last week until today.
The CEO of Starbucks on Monday met with two black men who
were arrested at one of his shops in Philadelphia, as accusations of racism
grew against the mammoth coffee chain.
The quickly planned meeting came amid a second day of
protests in the City of Brotherly Love, after video of the two getting arrested
on suspicion of trespassing went viral.
A spokesperson for Starbucks confirmed to NBC News that the
private meeting with CEO Kevin Johnson happened on Monday but no additional
details were immediately provided.
On Monday morning, speaking to ABC’s "Good Morning America,"
Johnson had called the arrests "reprehensible" and said he wanted to
meet with the men to discuss "a constructive solution.”
He also said he will order store managers to undergo
training on how to spot "unconscious bias" — something that has been
implemented in many police departments across the nation as well as other
corporations, such as Facebook, to help educate employees not act upon
subconscious stereotypes.
Previously, Johnson appeared in a video apologizing to the
men and promising changes at the company.
The two men, whose identities have not been released, were
arrested Thursday after a Starbucks manager called 911 because they were
sitting inside the store, had not bought anything and refused to leave,
according to police.
The store manager who called police "is no longer at
that store," a Starbucks spokesman told NBC News Monday afternoon, but did
not give any further detail. It was not immediately clear whether the manager
had been fired.
About two dozen protesters gathered outside the coffee shop
in the pouring rain, starting before 7 a.m. on Monday, alleging racism by both
the baristas and the police. Inside the store it looked like business as usual,
however most of the people sitting at the tables were regional leaders from the
company's corporate side, according to The Associated Press.
Just before 7:30 a.m., the protesters moved inside and stood
in front of the counter, some holding banners reading "End Stop and
Frisk" and chanting slogans like, "A whole lot of racism, a whole lot
of crap, Starbucks coffee is anti-black."
President & CEO of Starbucks Coffee network with 28,000 Stores worldwide declares to day to close all Starbucks stores in the United States from the afternoon on May 29, 2018 to train all its Managers for "Racial-bias education".
Read this news on Yahoo News at:
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Starbucks will close all U.S. stores on May 29 for 'racial-bias education'
Julia
La Roche, Reporter. Yahoo Finance. April 17, 2018
Starbucks (SBUX) said it would close all of its U.S. stores
on the afternoon of May 29 for nation-wide racial-bias education for its
employees, the company said in a statement.
The coffee giant has
come under pressure following the arrest of two black men on Thursday in one of
its Philadelphia stores. The store manager whose phone call resulted in the
arrests has
left the company.
Starbucks CEO Kevin
Johnson apologized over the weekend, calling the arrests “reprehensible” and
offered to meet the two men involved to give a face-to-face apology. Johnson has been in Philadelphia and has had “constructive discussions.”
“I’ve spent the last
few days in Philadelphia with my leadership team listening to the community, learning
what we did wrong and the steps we need to take to fix it,” Kevin Johnson
said in a statement, “While this is not limited to Starbucks, we’re committed
to being a part of the solution. Closing our stores for racial bias training is
just one step in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our
company and partnerships in our local communities.”
Founder and executive
chairman Howard Schultz has also traveled to Philadelphia with other senior
leadership to meet with community leaders and Starbucks employees.
“The company’s
founding values are based on humanity and inclusion,” Schultz said. “We will
learn from our mistakes and reaffirm our commitment to creating a safe and
welcoming environment for every customer.”
On the afternoon of
Thursday, May 29, nearly 175,000 Starbucks employees from 8,000 stores and
those working in the corporate office will go through training “designed
to address implicit bias, promote conscious inclusion, prevent discrimination
and ensure everyone inside a Starbucks store feels safe and welcome.”
The company said the
curriculum will involve experts including, Bryan Stevenson, founder and
executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill,
president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education
Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
Going forward, this
training will now be part of the company’s onboarding process for new hires.
The only other time Starbucks closed all of
its locations at once was in 2008 for espresso
training.
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