“The reasoning behind suppressing femininity in men’s skating was that if the sport looked like it was for sissies, no boys would sign up to do it. In retrospect, what a ludicrous proposition that was! Even the most masculine of skaters weren’t going to get fist bumps from the football team for doing “tough” skating to the Rocky soundtrack. Did they ever consider that a sport that leaned in to embracing femininity might actually attract the boys who don’t identify with traditionally masculine sports? Corner the market on those gentle boys! I’m certain that after seeing Rippon gyrate to club beats at the Olympics, a certain subset of boys are going to demand skates for Christmas, and they won’t know exactly why until years later. What a nice change of pace for queer kids to see a specific and joyful gay sensibility being celebrated rather than degraded!”
In a widely circulated video of the incident, at least two people who were present verbally defended the two men and questioned why they were being arrested and handcuffed.
“This is ridiculous,” said one white man to a police officer in the video. “What did they get called for? Because there were two black guys sitting here meeting me? What did they do?”
“They didn’t do anything, I saw the entire thing,” a woman can be heard saying. At least five police officers were present during the arrest, the video shows.
Police have not named the men, and the pair’s attorney, Lauren A. Wimmer, also declined to name them “at this time.”
The two men had gone to the Starbucks to meet Andrew Yaffe, the white man who can be seen in the video questioning the police officers, according to Wimmer.
Yaffe could not immediately be reached for comment, but Wimmer told BuzzFeed News he is a friend of the two men. He runs a real estate development, investment, and management firm, and the men were meeting with him “to discuss potential residential and commercial real estate opportunities in Philadelphia,” she said.
The two men had not ordered immediately upon arriving, as they were still waiting for Yaffe. While they waited for him, “a white female manager who was on duty at the time” asked them to leave, said Wimmer.
When they said they were just waiting for another person to arrive before ordering, she phoned the police, Wimmer said.
“How many times have we sat in Starbucks minding our own business, waiting for a friend to come, and then we order?” Wimmer said.
When Yaffe arrived and found the two men being arrested, he called Wimmer, whom he is also friends with, she said.
The two men were arrested around 5:30 p.m., and were fingerprinted and photographed by police.
Police told Wimmer they had arrested the men for “defiant trespassing.”
Black ppl can’t even go to Starbucks without getting arrested. Seriously I’m so tired of this fucjed up system
But seriously though, who calls the police on someone for not ordering?
And what the fuck is defiant trespassing?
Hi! As someone who worked at Starbucks for two years I can confidently say that there is no such thing as “defiant trespassing” during regular business hours. We let homeless people sit in the lobby for hours on end on numerous occasions. I can assure you that “defiant trespassing” in this case is code for “being black”.
is from new york city but you ever see him eating a bacon egg and cheese(certified nyc breakfast)??? No
there was even a whole scene in catws where sam makes breakfast. with Only eggs and toast !
((((Off topic but sam, bucky, peter: all from nyc, all never been seen eating a bacon egg and cheese. sam and bucky even grew their beards out, 🤔 all muslim! jot That down ))))
his shield is circular to represent the moon and it has a star on it (moon and star, significant symbol in islam)
99 years old but his skin looks amazing bc he does wudu all the time
here he is about to do it to em (pray): m’A
he broke through the winter soldier’s programming on the helicarrier when bucky was beating him within an inch of his life by telling him, a fellow musliman, to say wallahi
funeral-biscuit 