Ex-Starbucks manager, who was fired after arrests of two Black men, awarded $25.6M in discrimination suit

The lawyer for the regional manager, who had no role in the 2018 arrest of two Black men, said her client was the company’s ‘sacrificial lamb.’

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Jurors in a federal court in New Jersey have awarded $25.6 million to a former regional Starbucks manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished by the coffee chain after the high-profile 2018  today!

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