{"id":356886,"date":"2018-04-15T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sitting-in-starbucks-while-black\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:26:43","slug":"sitting-in-starbucks-while-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sitting-in-starbucks-while-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting In Starbucks While Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\" id=\"field-wrapper-author\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0In this once-reasonably-fair democracy in the year of our ostensible Lord 2018, two black guys sitting peaceably in a Philadelphia Starbucks waiting for a friend to show up for a meeting were charged with\u00a0 &#8220;trespassing,&#8221; asked to leave, and arrested by a swarm of cops for declining to do so though other patrons agreed &#8220;they didn&#8217;t do anything.&#8221; One stunning aspect of the now viral-video: The preternatural calm with which both now-handcuffed guys get up, because welcome to America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/further\/black_tease_161684-004-3580f978.jpg?itok=YE-pvSy6\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2018\/04\/14\/sitting-starbucks-while-black\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer \u00a0In this once-reasonably-fair democracy in the year of our ostensible Lord 2018, two black guys sitting peaceably in a Philadelphia Starbucks waiting for a friend to show up for a meeting were charged with\u00a0 &#8220;trespassing,&#8221; asked to leave, and arrested by a swarm of cops for declining to do so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}