Men arrested at Starbucks were there for business meeting hoping to change 'our lives

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/men-arrested-starbucks-were-business-meeting-hoping-change-114103068--abc-news-topstories.html

"It was just, 'Get out, you have to leave. You're not buying anything, so you shouldn't be here,'" Nelson told "GMA."

They calmly told the officers they were there for a meeting, and Robinson said he even called the person they were waiting for. But the officers repeatedly insisted that they leave, they said.

"This is a real estate meeting. We’ve been working on this for months," Nelson said. "We're days away from changing our whole entire situation, our lives, and you about to sit here telling me I can’t do that? You’re not doing that."

The officers ultimately handcuffed Nelson and Robinson, and escorted them out of the Starbucks and into a squad car before taking them to the police station. An onlooker captured the incident on video, which went viral and prompted Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to release a statement saying the "reprehensible outcome" should have never happened.

[cbdo2007]

1. The police are just as much to blame as the Starbucks manager...yet not a peep from them.

The guys still weren't doing anything wrong or illegal when the police got there and were talking to them, yet they ultimately cuffed them and took them to the police station.

[lame54]

3. They were stupid to do that...

Cops should be more aware of P.R.

Don't they watch the news?

[RandomAccess]

2. That makes it all the more heartbreaking