Last week, 9NEWS brought six people together to talk about racial bias -- a conversation that was sparked by an incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks last month.
On April 12, two black men were arrested at the store on trespassing charges. They were waiting for a third person to join them for a business meeting, but were still ordered to leave the store.
The incident created a media firestorm about racial profiling, and started a national conversation on implicit racial bias.
Just days ago, more than 8,000 Starbucks locations closed for the afternoon to "conduct racial-bias education geared toward preventing discrimination in our stores."
In response to the arrests, 9NEWS hosted a roundtable on implicit bias in Colorado and invited a wide array of community leaders and local law enforcement.
Watch the entire hour-plus discussion in the video above.
The list of participants is below.
- Nick Metz - Chief of Police, City of Aurora Police Department
- Carla Havard - Sergeant, Denver Police Department
- Lisa Calderón – Co-Chair Colorado Latino Forum Denver
- Qusair Mohamedbhai - Employment Discrimination & Civil Rights Attorney
- Whitney Traylor - Attorney, Legal Analyst and MSU Denver Professor
- Carolyn Taylor - Program Manager, Office of Diversity and Inclusion at University of Denver
