This is taken from the second post in this thread:

"Lauren said another woman had entered the Starbucks minutes before the men were arrested and was given the bathroom code without having to buy anything and that another person in the restaurant at the time of the incident "announced that she had been sitting at Starbucks for the past couple of hours without buying anything."​

>At least not on here. Obviously stores have a right to ask
>non-customers to leave, but if they're deliberately singling
>out only the non-customers who are black while knowingly
>allowing white non-customers to stay, that's very alarming.

^^^This is exactly what all the fuss is about. The white people in the Starbucks have confirmed that this is what they see it as all about.

It's discriminatory. Afro_girl also just chimed in that it's been a long standing practice.