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Starbucks CEO Forced To Apologize After Two Innocent Men Arrested In Philly Store

Emily Zanotti

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson was forced to issue an emphatic apology late Saturday after a shocking video of a racially-tinged incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks location went viral.

The video, posted to Twitter by a woman sitting in the shop, shows police speaking to — and then arresting — two black men that the woman says were simply sitting in the Starbucks waiting for a third member of their party before ordering coffee.

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