Speaker 1: Some donkey to day's just to themselves.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Donkey of today for Wednesday February first, the first
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Speaker 3: History Month.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's going to the people to decide.
Speaker 3: Yes, our amazing breakfast club listeners, the millions of you
Speaker 3: who listen to us daily, you will get to decide
Speaker 3: today who gets the biggest heat hall. You will get
Speaker 3: to decide who gets the credit they deserve for being stupid.
Speaker 3: I personally know who I feel in my heart she
Speaker 3: get it. But I want you all to hear the
Speaker 3: story and then we can discuss and I'll give the
Speaker 3: heat hal later. But Donkey of the Day today will
Speaker 3: go to either a Starbucks in Saint Louis. Right are
Speaker 3: a twenty year old former employee of the Starbucks in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Michael Harris. See Michael Harris was fired from
Speaker 3: Starbucks in Saint Louis and he is currently suing the
Speaker 3: whole coffee chain, saying he was wrongfully terminated after he
Speaker 3: confronted robbers at the store. Oh my god, no, Now,
Speaker 3: y'all know how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: These franchises ain't dying for you. Okay. Somebody coming there
Speaker 1: and rob the Star. Let him have it, all right,
Speaker 1: it ain't yours.
Speaker 3: They pull out a pistol here, man, you can have
Speaker 3: all the pistachiaol, frappucino, blended beverages you want, all right here,
Speaker 3: take the gift cards at the counter. You want a
Speaker 3: couple dollars out the register, you could take that too.
Speaker 3: Just gone about your business, all right? You nucked, and
Speaker 3: I ain't about to buck over No damn Starbucks. Are
Speaker 3: any fast food of retail chain for that matter. I'm
Speaker 3: making minimum wage.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't care if you're a store
Speaker 3: manager making a salary. I'm not dying over no white
Speaker 3: chocolate mocha frappuccino, blended beverage.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, there is exceptions to the rule, because sometimes you
Speaker 3: are not defending the Star. You have to defend yourself.
Speaker 3: And if you ask me, Michael Harris was in a
Speaker 3: position where he had to defend himself. Let's go to
Speaker 3: NBC five on your side for the report.
Speaker 1: Police.
Speaker 4: I thought I was gonna die that day, walked in
Speaker 4: announced that it was a robbery.
Speaker 5: Twenty year old Michael Harris was working the drive through
Speaker 5: here at the Starbucks on South Grand in Midtown.
Speaker 4: Then they started going up to people and firsteing them
Speaker 4: for stuff, and we started to fight back against him.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 5: When the two men then demanded cash from the register,
Speaker 5: he tried to open it, he says. One of the
Speaker 5: bad guys then hit him on the head with the god.
Speaker 5: He tells me he felt emboldened to stand his ground,
Speaker 5: especially when he realized the god he had just been
Speaker 5: attacked with was faith.
Speaker 4: Trigger for it like came busted off. And then that's
Speaker 4: when we noticed us and started to fight back.
Speaker 5: Not knowing if the crooks had another gun, Harris said
Speaker 5: he wanted to be careful. Eventually, one of the crooks
Speaker 5: took off. Harris and another coworker were able to restrain
Speaker 5: the other until police could get there. Weeks after the situation,
Speaker 5: Harris says he got a call.
Speaker 4: They terminated me.
Speaker 1: Damn, b you can bring it in. You can bring
Speaker 1: a chaps to get in my lipso goddamn dry. First
Speaker 1: rule of nature is self preservation. Okay. Michael Harris said
Speaker 1: he felt like he was gonna die that day. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Michael Harris said he felt like he was gonna die
Speaker 1: that day.
Speaker 3: Michael Harris got hitting the head with the fake gun,
Speaker 3: so his blood was probably boiling.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: He was probably enraged, and then he realized the gun
Speaker 3: was fake because he noticed the trigger had fell off,
Speaker 3: so he sprung into action. Now I don't know if
Speaker 3: he's sprung in the action because he was trying to
Speaker 3: get his look back for getting hit with the gun.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he still felt like his life
Speaker 3: was in danger. I don't know if he was defending Starbucks.
Speaker 3: I just know he was fired weeks later and never
Speaker 3: given the reason.
Speaker 1: As to why. Now.
Speaker 3: A lot of these franchises, like Starbucks, have protocols in
Speaker 3: place they ensure things like this don't happen. In fact,
Speaker 3: Starbucks said about this incident that all employees are expected
Speaker 3: to follow are carefully crafted protocols to ensure the safety
Speaker 3: of customers and partners during these situations. Starbucks says, in
Speaker 3: situations like this, our training and protocols guide our partners
Speaker 3: to comply and de escalate, not just for their safety,
Speaker 3: for the safety of all in the store, the safety
Speaker 3: of our customers and partners. But guess what the Home
Speaker 3: of the Caramel Apple Spice doesn't teach you. What's the
Speaker 3: proper procedure when you got a gun to your head?
Speaker 3: What the precision when you got a gun in your head?
Speaker 3: Michael Harrison in the Turne he said Starbucks policy is unfair.
Speaker 3: Their statement there is no way that an individual can
Speaker 3: be faced with danger, attempted potential death for themselves or another,
Speaker 3: and then once they've been hit or down that they
Speaker 3: cannot defend themselves. Linard agrees, Okay, you have to factor
Speaker 3: in human emotions to all of this. Michael is a
Speaker 3: young twenty year old man who felt like his life
Speaker 3: was in danger. You can't be upset at him for
Speaker 3: fighting back when he thinks he's getting robbed at gunpoint
Speaker 3: and then he gets hit in the head with a gun.
Speaker 3: In fact, he shouldn't be fired. He should be employee
Speaker 3: of the month. He should be promoted the manager let
Speaker 3: him get unlimited sugar cookie almond milk frappuccinos. This man
Speaker 3: earned that and much more. I believe if Michael would
Speaker 3: have said he was fighting for the store and not himself.
Speaker 3: He probably would still be employed today. But I told
Speaker 3: you we're gonna go to breakfast court. All right, you
Speaker 3: heard the facts of the case, You've heard the situation.
Speaker 3: So who should get the biggest he hal here?
Speaker 1: Michael?
Speaker 6: Play the team us?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Please, M'm get the.
Speaker 3: Bucks to Michael for not following store protocols even though
Speaker 3: his life was in danger? Are Starbucks for allegedly firing
Speaker 3: Michael for not following store protocols? Once again, who should
Speaker 3: get the biggest he hal here? Michael for not following
Speaker 3: store protocols even though his life was in danger? Are
Speaker 3: Starbucks for allegedly firing Michael for not following store protocols
Speaker 3: even though his life was in danger. I don't usually
Speaker 3: agree with employees playing hero when stares they work at
Speaker 3: get robbed.
Speaker 1: But this was more than that.
Speaker 3: This was a man defending himself because he was working
Speaker 3: in a franchise that got robbs.
Speaker 1: There is a difference. Let's discuss, all right.
Speaker 7: Let's open up the phone lines eight hundred and five
Speaker 7: eighty five, one oh five one. Now, the reason most
Speaker 7: store owners are don't want people to apprehend shoplift. This
Speaker 7: is because they are not in short to risk their
Speaker 7: health physically. All right, So if something happens, they don't
Speaker 7: want to be live, but if you died, they don't
Speaker 7: want to be liable. But Charlemagne said something very specific.
Speaker 7: The man was hit over the head with the.
Speaker 1: Guns defending himself.
Speaker 6: So now it's not a robbery.
Speaker 7: This is an assault in his self preservation, and I
Speaker 7: have to defend myself first law, nature, self preservation. He
Speaker 7: wasn't defending that store at that time. He was defending
Speaker 7: that head house.
Speaker 1: Pause.
Speaker 6: Woo woo woo woo woo woo.
Speaker 1: God matter, Mac, where's your will?
Speaker 3: Mac?
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ?
Speaker 8: Mad back?
Speaker 3: Come on Mac, where's the police when you need that?
Speaker 1: I'm going home?
Speaker 6: He got it hit over the.
Speaker 5: No no, no, bro, God Lord, call us up.
Speaker 7: Now, let's see your brain working that Way's the breakfast club, right,
Speaker 7: the breakfast club.
Speaker 6: Its topics.
Speaker 7: Call eight hundred five eight five one five one to
Speaker 7: join into the discussion with the breakfast club. Morning, everybody,
Speaker 7: envy Charlemagne the god We are the breakfast club.
Speaker 6: If you're just joining us.
Speaker 7: Charlemagne is trying to decide if he should give donkey
Speaker 7: of a data who well.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. Michael Harris twenty years old. He was
Speaker 3: an employee of Starbucks. Right, he got fired from Starbucks
Speaker 3: because people came in there to robbed the store. That
Speaker 3: one of the guys hit him over the head with
Speaker 3: the gun and he realized that the gun was fake
Speaker 3: because he saw the trigger fall. But he defended himself
Speaker 3: correct right, So weeks later Starbucks fired him. So now
Speaker 3: Michael Harris is suing Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Usually I am totally against people fighting, you know, robbers
Speaker 3: when they come in to rob the places that they
Speaker 3: work at, because we know that none of these establishments,
Speaker 3: these chained retail stores, we know they ain't dying for you,
Speaker 3: so you shouldn't die for them. But this is a
Speaker 3: different case. This man was not defending Starbucks. He was
Speaker 3: defending himself the first law of nature, his self preservation.
Speaker 3: He got hitting ahead with a gun. Once he realized
Speaker 3: the gun was fake, he went and made his move.
Speaker 3: Not mad at that. I don't think he should be fired,
Speaker 3: but it's not up to me.
Speaker 1: It's up to the people.
Speaker 6: All right, that's coming.
Speaker 1: Don't think should be donkey to day, but it's not.
Speaker 1: The means something to people.
Speaker 7: Hello, who's this Hi, this is laob Hey Laomi, good morning,
Speaker 7: good morning. Now you heard the story. Do you think
Speaker 7: Michael should get Donkey or Starbucks?
Speaker 9: Okay? I think it depends on you know, what race
Speaker 9: is Michael, because he is.
Speaker 8: Like you know of the talk a boy race. And
Speaker 8: he said that did it, and he said the mine
Speaker 8: is business and he said, let whatever happen and fall
Speaker 8: on the ploor and just let this guy do when
Speaker 8: he's supposed to. Now, if he was black, Starbus owes
Speaker 8: him an apology and he needs his job back, period.
Speaker 6: Because he's black history. So he's black, yes.
Speaker 1: Queen, Queen, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But that is beyondulous.
Speaker 1: It's not about what his race was, yes, it does.
Speaker 1: It's about right or wrong in this situation.
Speaker 6: He's black, white man.
Speaker 1: How about the people who robbed him was black? How
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 6: I don't know if he was, then he was fla.
Speaker 1: You riding with him. It don't matter about the races.
Speaker 6: Her opinion and you you said the people this is
Speaker 6: about she.
Speaker 1: Be disqualified from the jury. That's racist. That's number one.
Speaker 3: Yes, that would be she'd be disqualified from the damn jury. Okay,
Speaker 3: matter of fact, she is a qualified listening to her.
Speaker 6: Hello, who's this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's call Man Tall out of Pride County, Florida.
Speaker 1: What's said? My brother?
Speaker 3: Should Michael get donkey to Day? Should Starbucks get Donkey
Speaker 3: to Day?
Speaker 2: Listen? Man, As much as I don't want to say it,
Speaker 2: I wars broken jap Man, but I'm gonna keep it Redder.
Speaker 2: He messed up where he had met it. Ain't realized
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 6: Fake, so he said there was no real threat at
Speaker 6: that point.
Speaker 2: At that point, there was no Redder threat, just like
Speaker 2: you were speaking on a few weeks ago where somebody
Speaker 2: got back to her.
Speaker 4: Leave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no reason. It's hard. You're no long that day.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, you've seen like a BB gun before. You
Speaker 3: know them BB guns that be looking real. They still
Speaker 3: got some weight to him, so he I can still
Speaker 3: pistol with you with that BB gun and he got
Speaker 3: hitting the.
Speaker 6: Head with Are you trying to sway to Jerry?
Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you you like I say, Man, I hope
Speaker 2: he get paid. I hope you get pried. But he
Speaker 2: should have left that little detail a lot.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I just went all leter. I thought it was read.
Speaker 2: I was a sense for life or what should admit
Speaker 2: that your real life?
Speaker 10: It was just sake, girl.
Speaker 5: You go hard.
Speaker 2: The corporational care. They wanted your computer. Basically they want
Speaker 2: you to take all and hear over there, that's true.
Speaker 2: That slap over the head. Go get back to your tar.
Speaker 6: Hello, who's this? That's to Sharlayney Charmaine. Good morning? Where
Speaker 6: you calling it from?
Speaker 2: Come on, day in Ohio.
Speaker 6: Day in Ohio. So who do you think she get? Donkey,
Speaker 6: Michael or Starbucks?
Speaker 2: Starbucks because they're not about to play for that man
Speaker 2: center or so he had to do what he had
Speaker 2: to do to keep his life.
Speaker 6: That's right, Okay, thank you man, you have problem.
Speaker 3: Okay, So currently we got one for Michael, one for Starbucks,
Speaker 3: and one disqualified juror because she made it about rates
Speaker 3: and I don't know why.
Speaker 7: Eight hundred and five eight one five. When we come back,
Speaker 7: we're gonna take some more calls. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7: Good morning morning everybody at CEJ and Ban Charlamagne and
Speaker 7: the guy.
Speaker 6: We are to Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us.
Speaker 7: Charlamage is trying to decide who he wants to give
Speaker 7: Donkey to get it, Starbucks or Michael what happened?
Speaker 3: Now, let me explain the situation. Michael Harris was an
Speaker 3: employee at Starbucks in Saint Louis. Some guys came in
Speaker 3: there to rob the Starbucks in Saint Louis. One of
Speaker 3: the guys hitting Michael in the head with a gun.
Speaker 3: Then Michael realized that the gun was faked because he
Speaker 3: saw the trigger fall off. So Michael decided to defend
Speaker 3: himself and he fought back.
Speaker 1: Against the robber.
Speaker 3: You know, and now weeks later, Starbucks has fired him,
Speaker 3: and Michael believes he got fired because he didn't follow
Speaker 3: their protocol, which is to comply and de escalate in
Speaker 3: situations like that. But I feel like the first law
Speaker 3: of nature is self preservation. You gotta factor in human emotion.
Speaker 3: Somebody think that their life is about to be taken,
Speaker 3: they get hitting the head with a gun. I don't
Speaker 3: have a problem with the young man defended himself in
Speaker 3: that situation.
Speaker 1: Hello, who's Malcolm? Malcolm? What's up? Brother?
Speaker 6: What's your thoughts? Malcolm? What should get donkey? Should it
Speaker 6: be Starbucks or Michael?
Speaker 10: Listen? I think both of them should get it.
Speaker 1: Be honest with you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Listen.
Speaker 10: I used to manage restaurunds man I used to manage
Speaker 10: the Burger King. We got proud, But I feel like
Speaker 10: I feel like Starbucks should be smart enough to know
Speaker 10: that he wasn't defending Starbucks at the time.
Speaker 2: He was defending himself. Starbucks.
Speaker 10: They need to know that right off the back.
Speaker 6: So then why is he getting dunky?
Speaker 10: He gotta get dunky because he needs to know if
Speaker 10: these dudes got guns drawn who regardless if you think
Speaker 10: it's fake or not, you gotta take that lost because
Speaker 10: you don't know if they got another one or what's
Speaker 10: going on.
Speaker 1: Let's trying to.
Speaker 10: Sit there and take that.
Speaker 1: I thought about that too.
Speaker 10: Feel like they both got to share this and they
Speaker 10: need to go somewhere and talk about it and both
Speaker 10: of them just be donkey and just living their life
Speaker 10: like that.
Speaker 6: Okay, Hello, who's this.
Speaker 10: And her garter?
Speaker 8: Jake calling for the dunky of the day right here.
Speaker 3: What's happening Kia and her daughter? What's said Jake y
Speaker 3: j A E P j O Jakes? Okay, what's what's
Speaker 3: what's the age is? What what's your what's your daughter's age?
Speaker 6: He's lying? Okay, so what so what do y'all think?
Speaker 8: What do you think star Bus is the donkey after day.
Speaker 7: Right now, Mama, I can't say anything because he told
Speaker 7: me I was the junkie of the day because I'm
Speaker 7: always getting her.
Speaker 10: The school late.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: Well, she's right, she's correct, because you're probably stopping that Starbucks.
Speaker 3: Probably got stopping that Starbucks, aren't you. Aren't you tell the.
Speaker 8: Truth only if I'm allowed to give her the mate.
Speaker 6: Exactly, Thank you so much, thank y'all. If you want
Speaker 6: to have a grade there in school? Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Fellas?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 1: Tylie?
Speaker 3: Julie from Jacksonville, Floydville?
Speaker 1: What's happening?
Speaker 6: What's your thought? Whould get the bad day? Michael A Starbucks?
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, man, you gotta go ahead and get that
Speaker 2: Starbucks man. That man for his life. The people from
Speaker 2: that thing a moment to get out up.
Speaker 10: Man, they ain't got security in that Get the Starboars
Speaker 10: let him.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, so far that's three for Starbucks.
Speaker 6: Wellfore if you do kid and a daughter?
Speaker 1: Okay, well I got all right. She didn't vote though
Speaker 1: Mom didn't vote. Mama didn'tvote, didn't want to vote. Okay,
Speaker 1: case she get donkey today for being late?
Speaker 7: Hello, who's the last one is hey, destiny, good morning.
Speaker 7: So who she get donk in today? Is it Starbucks
Speaker 7: or is it Michael?
Speaker 9: It's definitely going to be Starbus because I get it.
Speaker 9: Plays have pologies and procedures set for a reason. However,
Speaker 9: if somebody sitting me across the head with a gun,
Speaker 9: my mother said, it's fate and the piece of too,
Speaker 9: it starts to fall apart. Obviously, I'm gonna take that
Speaker 9: opportunity to defend myself and those around me because things
Speaker 9: still could have went wrong. So I think he's bringing
Speaker 9: to action and he should and Starbust definitely gets dunk
Speaker 9: the other day.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 3: The vote we took one, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 3: seven eight. We took seven calls right, eight calls eight
Speaker 3: calls when Jurry got disqualified because she made it about race,
Speaker 3: So that's seven. So we have one, two, three four
Speaker 3: for Starbucks. One dude voted for Michael Land Starbucks. More
Speaker 3: of the story is Starbucks is getting the donkey of today.
Speaker 3: The first law of nature is self preservation. That's right,
Speaker 3: first law nature. And I feel like if he would
Speaker 3: have told them, you know, he was trying to defend
Speaker 3: the store. They probably wouldn't have done that to him,
Speaker 3: but even still, you still get you got to defend yourself.
Speaker 3: First law nature is self preservation. I'm not mad at
Speaker 3: the brother, all right, So please let the Starbucks get
Speaker 3: the sweet Chunge and the Hamiltons.
Speaker 6: Oh no, you are the doe of thee.
Speaker 1: All the day. Ye all right?
Speaker 6: Now, when we come back, we got your room of report.
Speaker 6: Donald Glover.
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Speaker 7: when he asked Brad Pick for some advice, he kind
Speaker 7: of got.
Speaker 6: Uh, let's just say curved. We'll talk about it when
Speaker 6: we come back.
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