When Calling The Po-Po Is A No-No [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 7/16/184:00 AM

Melissa DePino didn't take the infamous April video that showed two black men being handcuffed and ejected from a Philadelphia Starbucks—but she agreed to post it.

"I know these things happen," the writer says, "but I'd never actually witnessed it myself. And when I saw it I thought 'people need to see this.'"

So she uploaded and pressed "send." It got millions of views, and people are still talking about it.

[For more on this story by KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/c...the-po-po-is-a-no-no]

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