The Washington Times
published my piece on the Philly Starbucks incident:
Tensions are stirring and
trouble is brewing in Philadelphia after two black men were arrested at a
Starbucks on April 12.
The manager of a local
Starbucks refused to allow the two men to use the rest room as they had not
purchased anything. The manager then asked the men to leave the store and when
they refused, stating they were waiting for a friend, the manager called the police
and reported that the men were trespassing.
When the police arrived they
too asked the two men to leave the store and when they refused the police
arrested the men without incident, other than a store customer recording the
arrest for social media and a chorus of irate customers shouting at the police
officers. The two men were belligerent. They reportedly cursed the store
manager and they insulted the responding police officers, telling them they
didn’t know the law and scoffed at their salaries
The Philadelphia District
Attorney’s Office, helmed by Larry Krasner, a notorious anti-cop and radical
DA, refused to charge the men and they were released some hours later. By then
the video of the arrest went viral, as they say. Millions have viewed the short
video of the arrest and the two men have now been proclaimed as racial victims.
Philadelphia Police
Commissioner Richard Ross quickly put out his own live Facebook video in which
he explained the incident. He originally stated emphatically that his officers
did nothing wrong.
“They did what they were
supposed to do, they were professional in all their dealings with these
gentlemen and instead, they got the opposite back,” Commissioner Ross said in
his video. “I will say that as an African American man, 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.”
But Commissioner Ross soon
caved and the two men later received an apology from him. “I should have said
the officers acted within the scope of the law, and not that they didn’t do
anything wrong.” He said he failed miserably in addressing the arrests and the
department was working on a new policy to address these kinds of situations.
He joined the chorus of other
politically correct Philadelphia politicians who decried the arrests, such as
liberal Mayor Jim Kenney, who wrote that he was “heartbroken” over the
incident.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
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