Black spaces bustle, they vibrate, they're full of life, and culture, and art, and history, and beauty. White spaces are none of those things--white spaces are the neutral canvas onto which other spaces project.

So too with Starbucks. Black bodies make Starbucks a black space. You see a refusal to purchase, I see an act of agency. You see an argument, I see a barbaric yawp. You see lawlessness, I see sprezzatura. I am in a black space; you are merely in a disrupted white space you can no longer control.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850086)

In a statement on Facebook Live, Ross said that Starbucks employees called 911 to report a trespassing complaint.

The employees told officers the two men wanted to use the restroom but were told the facilities are only for paying customers. The Starbucks employees then asked the men to leave, but they refused, Ross said.

Officers responded and asked the men three times "politely to leave the location because they were being asked to leave by employees because they were trespassing." When the men again refused to leave, they were arrested "without incident," Ross said.

The men were taken to a police station and released when it became clear Starbucks didn't want to press charges.

"They did a service that they were called to do," Ross said of the officers. "And if you think about it logically, that if a business calls and they say that someone is here that I no longer wish to be in my business, (officers) now have a legal obligation to carry out their duties. And they did just that."

Ross, who is black, referenced his own experiences while making his case, saying, "As an African-American male, I am very aware of implicit bias."

"We are committed to fair and unbiased policing and anything less than that will not be tolerated in this department."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850164)

they argue about this, are asked to leave. they refuse to leave?

Insane. Starbucks isn't a public bathroom! and besides, its just rude as fuck for two fuckers to ask to use the bathroom and not buy anything --in a starbucks. I mean, people own businesses, try to run businesses well. they cant have randos using toilets all day without buying anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850718)

Of course, if they said no, I wouldn’t turn it into some kind of protest.

That said, they’ve never said no, maybe because I’m (((white)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850891)

After the two men were refused the bathroom, they just sat at a table silently and played with their phones as they waited for a friend, Saahene told NBC News.

Saahene said that a white man sitting next to her had been at the Starbucks for 30 minutes without making a purchase and a jogger came in and used the bathroom without making a purchase.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850170)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850154)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/30/article-2438643-1866847600000578-732_964x646.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850266)

If whites regularly hang around the store without buying anything and aren't asked to leave, there's an issue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850791)

Starbucks - 1

You - 0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3950515&forum_id=2#35850828)