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LISBON, PORTUGAL - OCTOBER 07: Travelers are silhouetted while sitting under Starbucks Coffee logo in the arrivals hall at Terminal 1 in Humberto Delgado International Airport Humberto Delgado International Airport on October 07, 2022 in Lisbon, Port PHILADELPHIA - Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million 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 location in 2018.Shannon Phillips won $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages on Monday after a jury in New Jersey found that race was a determinative factor in Phillips’ firing, in violation of federal and state anti-discrimination.In April 2018, a Philadelphia store manager called police on two Black men who were sitting in the coffee shop without ordering anything. Phillips, then regional manager of operations in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and elsewhere, was not involved with arrests.

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