Jurors have awarded £20.2million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia store in 2018.
Shannon Phillips won 600,000 dollars in compensatory damages and 25 million dollars in punitive damages after a jury in New Jersey found that race was a determinative factor in Ms Phillips’ firing, in violation of federal and state anti-discrimination laws, Law360 reports.
In April 2018, a Philadelphia store manager called police on two black men who were sitting in the coffee shop without ordering anything.
