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A video that's now amassed almost 7 million views on Twitter depicts police officers handcuffing two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks. Onlookers in the background are incredulous. "What did they do?" one man asks. "They didn't do anything," a woman responds. "I saw the entire thing." In a video statement streamed on Facebook Live from the Philadelphia Police Department's page, Commissioner Richard Ross confirmed that on Thursday afternoon at 4:40 p.m., Philadelphia police received a 911 call from the Starbucks at 18th and Spruce Streets alleging disturbance and trespassing. When police arrived, two Starbucks employees told them two men had asked to use the restroom but were told they couldn't because they hadn't purchased anything. The men allegedly refused to leave after being asked by Starbucks employees. Ross also said the two men refused to leave after being asked three times by police officers. They bloody well should have. Philadelphia is supposed to be the city of brotherly love, and I didn't see one iota of that. I'm sure this would have played out a lot differently if they were white.