Melissa DePino didn't take the infamous April video that showed two black men being handcuffed and ejected from a Philadelphia Starbucks—but she agreed to post it. "I know these things happen," the writer says, "but I'd never actually witnessed it myself. And when I saw it I thought 'people need to see this.'" So she uploaded and pressed "send." It got millions of views, and people are still talking about it. Michelle Saahene was in the same Starbucks at the same time, and had been for a while. She, too, witnessed the arrest and thought something was janky. She'd heard the manager tell the police she'd called them because the two men hadn't bought anything, a violation of company policy. One man had been refused the restroom code; the manager told him "restrooms are reserved for customers." But there was a double standard, Saahene says. "There was a gentleman sitting next to me, a white man, for 45 minutes without buying anything. I saw a white woman come in—mid-jog—use the bathroom,
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