Activists held two rallies Friday morning outside a Westport Starbucks where an employee said he repeatedly had been the target of a customer’s racial hatred.
The gatherings were at the downtown Starbucks, 1 Parker Harding Plaza. Both were peaceful, although one was described as more of a quiet sit-in and the other a Black Lives Matter-style protest with chanting and speeches. There were no arrests.
Both rallies were in support of Day’Shawn Rodriguez, who said in a social media post circulated last weekend that over the course of a year, a customer used racial slurs and harassed him.