Starbucks Employees Fired After Robbery Incident

being stopped by two Starbucks employees who were fired

because of it.

It was a Sunday in December 2023, the middle of the

afternoon. Michael Harris was working drive-through.

We were just going about our normal day. Two robbers walked in.

One suspect walks behind the counter and shoves a female worker to the

ground.

I was scared, but also just calm at the moment,

'cause I was just like,

"Whatever we could do to just get them out of here would be perfect."

The robbers demand money and strike Harris with a gun.

After that point, like when my vision went black, I was like,

"I'm about to get

shot."

A customer in the drive-through sees what's happening and reverses her car.

It was definitely a life or death situation in my eyes.

Another worker, also fired after this, saw a suspect lower

his gun, so he shoved him and noticed the gun was fake.

The trigger broke off when they hit him with it.

My coworker, uh, announced that it was a fake gun, like

right as he got it off of them, and that's when we jumped and like started

to fight them a little bit more.

But now in prison after robbery convictions, Harris says he got a

call from corporate.

They said, "This is Starbucks. Um, we are terminating you effective

immediately."

He hired attorney Ryan Krupp.

You have the right to self-preservation.

You have the right to make sure that you and your family

are not going to be

physically harmed,

full stop.

Krupp says Starbucks' response could lead to a future deadly outcome.

All it's going to do is dissuade people potentially from

protecting their own lives

when they may need it the most, and that is not a world that we can live in.