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A jury previously awarded Shannon Phillips $25.6 million.

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Phillips, 52, claimed in her lawsuit that "her race was a determinative factor" in Starbucks' decision to fire her in the wake of a 2018 racial firestorm.

In April 2018, two Black men -- Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson -- were arrested while waiting for a business meeting after an employee called 911 and accused the men of trespassing after they refused to make a purchase or leave the store. The arrests sparked nationwide protests and prompted Starbucks to close some of its stores for a day for racial bias training.

Less than a month after the arrests, Phillips was notified of her termination, despite claiming that she wasn't at the store that day and was not involved in the arrests in any way.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it was because of her race, but if she really wasn't at the store that way, it does sound like retaliation.

[-] Addv4@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

It pretty obviously was, which is why the case was so obviously a slam dunk. Basically, she stood up for the employee who called the police (essentially Starbucks' policy at the time when people wouldn't leave the establishment after being asked first), and got fired in turn as Starbucks was trying to clean house on the whole thing and not get called racist. She definitely had a case.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Retaliation by Starbucks for the bad PR.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Replied to the wrong person. Sorry

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