- Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized on Saturday night to the two black men arrested in a Philadelphia store.
- Videos of the arrest, which went viral, were “very hard to watch,” Johnson said.
- He said the company’s practices and training led to the “reprehensible outcome” and that the incident “should never have escalated as it did.”
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson issued a lengthy apology statement Saturday night as online backlash against the coffee giant grew over the arrests of two black men in a Philadelphia store.
Several videos that went viral showed police officers handcuffing two men and leading them out of the store, over the protestations of bystanders who said “they didn’t do anything.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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