Overview

• The TikTok clips, recorded at a Yucaipa, California, store, show a barista telling a customer to choose a different name for the order.
• In the exchange, the employee says “we can’t do political names,” claims the name sticker “won’t print,” and declines to write “Charlie Kirk” on the cup.
• Starbucks told Fox News Digital that company policy does not prohibit using Kirk’s name and that it is working to understand what occurred at the location.
• The videos prompted widespread social media backlash and calls to boycott the coffee chain.
• Supporters have been ordering Kirk’s favored Mint Majesty tea with two honeys as a tribute after his killing at a Utah event, for which a suspect has been arrested.