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Starbucks pays out $25M to fired White employee. Shannon Phillips was fired in 2018 amid racial backlash over treatment of Black men at Philadelphia Starbucks
Fox News
June 15, 2023

A woman holds a Black Lives Matter flag during an event in remembrance of George Floyd and to call for justice for those who lost loved ones to the police violence outside the State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on May 24, 2021.
A New Jersey federal jury decided in favor of Phillips, who sued Starbucks in 2019 over allegations of racial bias and discrimination.
It took the eight-member panel nearly five hours to award $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages to Phillips, determining that her skin color played a decisive role in her termination.
Phillips, who worked for Starbucks for 13 years and oversaw roughly 100 cafes, was fired less than a month after Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson were arrested at a Spruce Street store on April 12, 2018, for refusing to leave a table.
The incident, captured on cellphone video, quickly went viral and Starbucks faced intense scrutiny for the treatment of the Black men, who said they were waiting for a business associate and hadn't ordered anything when a manager called the Philadelphia police on them. Phillips was not present.
To quell the racial firestorm, the chain apologized and closed 8,000 U.S. stores early for racial bias training.

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