An adult african american male [chief of police] defends arrests.
And he has every right to. The arrest were, sorry to say, required by law. It's not rocket science, folks:
You do
NOT have any
RIGHT to be anywhere in a private residence or a place of business, once you are asked to leave by the owner/manager/proprietor.
It doesn't matter what you did or didn't do.
They could literally say, "I don't like that shirt, could you please leave?" If you refuse and they call the police you are going to have two options:
Once you are asked to leave, that's it. It's over. Leave. If you insist on staying then you have nobody to blame but yourself when you're arrested.
So that's that.
BUT
Whether the manager
SHOULD have called the police is another matter.
Was she within her rights to do so? Yes.
Does that make her right? No.
Why?
Because she has a track record of having no problem with white people or Asians coming in and using the restroom before they order, whether they wind up ordering or not. She HAS however had several issues with black folks before.
That is a clear case of racism on her part, and frankly that sort of pattern should have been seen long before it came to this.
Dont worry homeless now have a precendent to stay inside of any starbucks during business hours, homeless crisis averted!
Incorrect. Anybody can be asked to leave, and arrested if they don't, at any time from any business or private residence for absolutely no reason at all.
What's more, vagrancy is a crime. So that would actually be just cause for being cited/arrested.
It really cracks me up how complete idiots make statements like that that have absolutely no basis in fact.
Drama queen less.