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Start putting CEO's in jail for abusing children.

A Starbucks near the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame – one of 16
shuttered nationwide by the coffee chain – went dark last week
because of “challenging incidents that make it unsafe to
continue to operate,” the company said, according to published
reports.

The cafe on Hollywood Blvd. and Vine St. was among six locations
in Los Angeles closed at the end of July after the chain claimed
that high crime, homelessness and tense encounters between
staffers and mentally ill people forced its hand.

Sara Blair, a Hollywood resident, said that particular Starbucks
site was often hit with vandalism, according to the Los Angeles
Times. Passersby would notice windows being smashed in and
boarded up, the Times reported.

She also told the Times that she once noticed a large contingent
of police officers surrounding the cafe after someone entered
with a weapon in what was later determined to be a “hostage
situation.”

A Starbucks spokesperson told The Post on Thursday that the
Seattle-based chain does not have any record of there being a
hostage situation at the site.

The Post reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department
seeking more information.

Aside from the LA locations, Starbucks also shut down six stores
in Seattle; two in Portland, Ore.; and one location each in
Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.

The company said that it was receiving feedback from store
managers who were struggling to cope with drug users occupying
the bathrooms as well as rowdy customers who would commit crimes
such as theft and assault.

But union representatives said that two of the Seattle locations
that were shuttered were stores where the employees were engaged
in organized labor activities — and that the company was using
crime as a pretext to retaliate against them.

Howard Schultz, the interim CEO of Starbucks, said earlier this
summer that he was giving store managers discretion to alter the
chain’s “open bathroom” policy due to mounting concerns over
public safety.

In 2018, Starbucks allowed non-customers to use its bathrooms
after two black men who were sitting inside a coffee shop in
Philadelphia without having ordered anything were arrested.

Comments:

JJ LOVEIN
4 August, 2022

I hope woke starbucks goes out of business. Ma & Pa/family owned
coffee shops making a comeback would be a wonderful thing for
America. It's an expensive business but I'd rather pay more to
them than wokebucks.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/hollywood-starbucks-allegedly-shut- down-after-hostage-situation/

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