Melissa Depino: I Was In That Starbucks

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Melissa Depino was in that Starbucks when Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson were arrested. She saw the whole thing, before and after the video. This is her story. Living through this has changed her. Let me know what you think. Twitter: @Toure. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Please play safely. Today's guest, Melissa DiPino, was at that Starbucks on the day that two black men, Dante
1:17.4	Robinson and Rishon Nelson, were arrested just minutes after walking into the store, a moment that's been acutely painful
1:26.8	because it's so mundane and yet bizarre.
1:31.6	It underlines the Kafka-esque absurdity of black life in America, where you can calmly, quietly, sit in a coffee shop that encourages sitting all day and still get arrested. I called Melissa to get a little
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