Wait, I'm admittedly not well read on this incident, but I keep seeing people ITT insisting that they were asked to leave. By who? From what I understand the only people who asked them to leave were the cops. Again, from what I understand they didn't have an altercation with any employee, no employee asked them to leave, and they were doing something completely normal-- waiting for a friend/whatever at Starbucks. All of a sudden (from their perspective) there are cops there telling them to leave. How would you react? You'd likely be pretty confused, think there's some sort of misunderstanding, and you very likely may refuse since from your perspective none of this adds up-- you're not a vagrant, what you're doing is wholly typical, and there was no meaningful lead up to give you the impression that this was to be the trajectory of your day.

Sure a private business can set their own rules (within some legal boundaries), and sure, I suppose technically they may not have broken the law, and I'll even grant that race may not have played a role (none of us are mind readers), but to insist that it made sense for two business men at a Starbucks table waiting to meet a third should have been kicked out is laughable.