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13251874, If it's the video from reply 63 I've seen it.
Posted by Lurkmode, Thu Apr-19-18 09:40 PM
>the barista he confronted said "I didnt give him the code",
>if Im to take her at her word, maybe someone else did

If she didn't give the white guy the code, it's even worse because she is the manager. I can't take her at her word. This is a pattern going back to 2009 at other Starbucks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-arrest-builds-on-exclusion-problem-2018-4

https://twitter.com/Kate_H_Taylor/status/985892575197450242/photo/1

Simon visited more than 400 Starbucks locations while researching the book, which was published in 2009. As he spent hundreds of hours in Starbucks, he realized different customers received different treatment, with the bathroom policy acting as a key example.

Simon writes:

"To use the bolted bathrooms, you had to ask for a key. This seemed to be no problem for people wearing suits and expensive ski jackets or white college professors like myself. We ask for the key, no questions asked. But for the homeless and for people of color, especially unattached men, things aren't so simple and easy. Several times I have seen African-American men go up to the counter for the key. Giving the man the once-over the manager or the shift supervisors hesitates and says, 'Have you bought anything? The bathrooms, you know, are for customers only.'"