After a New Jersey Starbucks employee was charged Monday for spitting in police officers' drinks, the Park Ridge Police Department is looking for answers.In a Wednesday interview on "Fox & Friends," Park Ridge Police Department Lt. James Babcock said that while the investigation into 21-year-old Kevin Trejo is still ongoing, the incident had been confirmed.POLICE FIND COCAINE SMUGGLED INSIDE OF HUNDREDS…
Business|Starbucks Will Allow Employees to Wear Black Lives Matter ApparelIn announcing the reversal, the coffee chain also said it would make 250,000 Black Lives Matter shirts for baristas who wanted them.Messages of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement posted at a Starbucks in Naperville, Ill., last week.Credit...Nam Y. Huh/Associated PressStarbucks said on Friday that…
June 12, 2020 | 12:11pm | Updated June 12, 2020 | 12:53pm Starbucks on Friday said employees can wear Black Lives Matter-related clothing at work, reversing a dress code that sparked online outrage. The Seattle-based coffee chain told employees they’re free to sport BLM apparel despite telling them last week that it would violate company…
Chain, which had banned attire that ‘advocated a political, religious or personal issue’, changes course after backlash A Starbucks in New York. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Starbucks said Friday that employees will be allowed to wear clothing and accessories in support of Black Lives Matter, responding to a backlash and boycott calls after the coffee chain…
Starbucks says it will now allow employees to wear T-shirts and accessories in support of Black Lives Matter, reversing course after news reports sparked a social media backlash.“We see you. We hear you. Black Lives Matter. That is a fact and will never change,” the company said in a letter posted Friday. “This movement is…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…