A jury previously awarded Shannon Phillips $25.6 million.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.