Starbucks apologizes to Black customer ejected from store

Starbucks is facing another incident of alleged racial discrimination, this time in California where a Black man said he was told to leave one of the coffee chain's San Jose locations because it was overcrowded under COVID-19 restrictions. 

Bryce Ward told an ABC News affiliate that he left the store at the request of Starbucks manager. Other customers, who were not Black, then walked into the store and were not asked to leave, KGO-TV reported. Ward, a barber from San Francisco, said the incident happened March 15 and that he believes he was asked to leave the store because he's Black. "I was the only Black [person] in there. I don't know what was going through her mind," Ward told KGO-TV, referring to the female manager.