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Political polarization sparks confrontation at Starbucks, triggering online fury
Palo Alto Online ^ | 4/3/19 | By Sue Dremann

Posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:59 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

It began when Palo Alto resident Rebecca Parker Mankey attempted to shame an elderly white man wearing a red Make America Great Again hat as he sat in the coffeehouse — an encounter she later wrote about on social media. Calling him a "hater of brown people," Mankey said she yelled at him and addressed Starbucks customers and employees to join her in her effort. She said she left the store but soon returned and continued to yell at him. Mankey said she was "heartbroken" that other white people didn't stand up against the man wearing what has become for some a symbol of hate. She followed him out of the store to the parking lot, where she continued to berate and swear at him.

She called the man "Nazi scum" and threatened to post pictures of him on social media, which she then did, along with her version of the incident on her Facebook page and on Twitter. She asked the public for help finding him — "I want him to have nowhere to hide," she wrote -- a practice called "doxing," or posting personal contact information to encourage threats and harassment.

The incident has had repercussions not only for Mankey, who said on Tuesday she's received death threats and was fired from her job as an accountant, but also for her former employer, Gryphon Stringed Instruments. Staff at the store said they were inundated with angry phone calls and emails Monday and Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at paloaltoonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; california; hat; hatecrime; hatespeech; maga; magahat; paloalto; parkermankey; persecution; racism; rebeccaparkermankey; starbucks; vermont
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To: polymuser
Vote for the Grassroots Progressives

Grassroots is where the manure settles.

81 posted on 04/03/2019 8:20:13 PM PDT by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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To: Avalon Memories

I am with you. Not enough drugs, not enough alcohol. Nor paper sacks.


82 posted on 04/03/2019 8:26:51 PM PDT by sport
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To: Larry Lucido

Ah, simpler times. A new movie with Cluseau chasing his quarry into a no-go zone could be riotous!


83 posted on 04/03/2019 9:02:36 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: NohSpinZone
Of course, now it all makes sense...

Bene Gesserit witch?

Regards,

84 posted on 04/03/2019 9:07:38 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: pops88

......need to also be carrying some holy water, anointing oil, a cross..

As a Christian I approve that idea. Carry a small wooden cross and a bottle of water. If confronted just whip out your cross and hold it in front of them and baptize them with the water.


85 posted on 04/03/2019 9:12:31 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Nea Wood

I have had people wait for me to come out of the Grocery Store just so they could tell me how much they like the Plates and to also tell me there is no way in hell they would ever put anything Trump on their Cars.

Two people waited almost a half hour. I was floored.

This has happened at least a half dozen times. I find it refreshing and it gives me hope, even though I realize that CA is beyond redemption.


86 posted on 04/03/2019 9:14:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Avalon Memories

A wise man informed me years that men don’t pick women. Women pick men. I don’t know how true that is, but it seems to me to be generally true.

Anyway, she certainly has a sense of style. But its extremity (piercings, hairstyle, and probably tattoos) don’t do anything for me.

Her actions tell me she’d probably be the very devil to live with.


87 posted on 04/03/2019 9:20:21 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: NohSpinZone

Lol


88 posted on 04/03/2019 9:58:16 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: NohSpinZone

I can’t believe anyone hired her to be their accountant.


89 posted on 04/03/2019 10:04:33 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Larry Lucido

Do you av a public liconse for your mankey?


90 posted on 04/03/2019 10:34:15 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Unless Will Mankey is it’s brother or something.


91 posted on 04/04/2019 3:08:54 AM PDT by rackatoot
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To: rackatoot

Could be both...


92 posted on 04/04/2019 6:14:23 AM PDT by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: NohSpinZone

The old guy should sue her for inciting violence against him. And Trump should invite him to the White House for dinner.


93 posted on 04/04/2019 6:14:59 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: NohSpinZone

She’s not a victim. And the comments on the site...amazing.


94 posted on 04/04/2019 6:36:58 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: null and void

freakazoid

I was going to change my tag line after we got rid of 0bama, but it’s actually more relevant now, I think.


95 posted on 04/04/2019 6:42:30 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: WVNan
If confronted just whip out your cross and hold it in front of them and baptize them with the water.

...while repeating, "The power of Trump compels you!"

96 posted on 04/04/2019 6:48:15 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: bagster

:-)


97 posted on 04/04/2019 6:51:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NohSpinZone

98 posted on 04/04/2019 7:32:36 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: MAGAthon

“the headline suggests the elderly man was somehow involved in sparking the confrontation. no he wasn’t.”

He had the audacity to wear the hat.


99 posted on 04/04/2019 7:35:31 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Can you picture him in a wig & makeup?


100 posted on 04/04/2019 7:42:36 AM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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