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An all female staff (2 workers) at a restaurant where a man is sitting in a corner by himself for 30 minutes. He doesn't want yogurt and he keeps looking at his phone then staring at another table (mother and adult son sitting). The staff have been robbed in the past and the bathrooms see frequent homeless drug use. Suspicious. Had the man been white, no issues with the staff calling the cops to ask the man to move along and we never would have even heard of the incident.
But this man is black, so of course.. It becomes a big incident. With the man that was asked to leave saying the only way he can feel safe is if the city takes the Hispanic male owner's (who was not even there at the time) license away and allows him (the victim) to take the license and ensures he has enough capital to purchase the yogurt shop and two other business the owner has.
I've told this story in the past. I've been asked to leave a business before, while I waited for a friend's dad to pick me up after my friend and I got stuck in a winter storm. So, this certainly is not uncommon.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bla...eep-foot-white-supremacys-neck-202514205.html
But this man is black, so of course.. It becomes a big incident. With the man that was asked to leave saying the only way he can feel safe is if the city takes the Hispanic male owner's (who was not even there at the time) license away and allows him (the victim) to take the license and ensures he has enough capital to purchase the yogurt shop and two other business the owner has.
I've told this story in the past. I've been asked to leave a business before, while I waited for a friend's dad to pick me up after my friend and I got stuck in a winter storm. So, this certainly is not uncommon.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bla...eep-foot-white-supremacys-neck-202514205.html
[FONT="] “I think we need to make sure Ramon Cruz is unable to renew his business license here. And when the lease for this store is up, we need to make sure that Byron Ragland has the capital and resources to purchase this Menchie’s and the two other restaurants he owns in this community. That would be a good place to start. That would make me feel a little bit better. [/FONT]
[FONT="]After sitting at a Menchie’s table for 30 minutes, two police officers arrived. [/FONT][FONT="]“They asked me to leave,” Ragland told the newspaper. “They asked for my ID. They told me the manager had been watching me and wanted me to move along.”
[/FONT][FONT="]According to an [/FONT]audio of the 911 call[FONT="], Cruz, who was not in the store that day, received a phone call from his employees who were concerned about Ragland’s presence. “There is one guy who is sitting in the corner, hasn’t bought anything, he’s been sitting there for over 30 minutes,” Cruz told the dispatcher. “They’re kinda scared because he looks suspicious. He just keeps looking at the phone and looking at them.”
[/FONT][FONT="]Cruz said that his all-female staff is “very cautious” due to past incidents involving robberies and homeless people shooting drugs in the restroom, and requested that police tell Ragland to “move along.” He also stated that Ragland was alone in the store.[/FONT]
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