I was detained for protesting Trump. Heres what the Secret Service asked me

[Lee-Lee]

17. A few things here.... but people who protested Obama like that got the same basic treatment

First, as noted Starbucks isn't a "public place". But past that she was attempting to hang a banner over a wall in the atrium, and that is clearly a common area of the building and not the portion leased by Starbucks. As such she was actually on Trump property attempting it.

She is foolish to think she could just say "my protest is over" and expect to be allowed to walk away after actually doing that in Trump Tower. She's actually pretty lucky to not be facing charges because if the folks running the property wanted to they could push the issue.

Second, when you get the Secret Service involved they are going to dig deep into you and see if you present a credible threat to the President. Period. That's their job, period, no matter who is in the office. He attitude that somehow she is being persecuted is a sham looking for attention. I would chalk it up as just being naive except she worked in the White House and she knows exactly how this works.

When I was a deputy we had a resident of the county who wrote a bunch of seemingly (not overtly but also very disjointed and rambling) threatening letters to President Clinton. The Secret Service did the same thing, they came and brought him in for an interview, talked to any local LE that had dealt with him (most of us had), talked to neighbors. They determined he was enough risk that whenever the President was traveling in the area they sent someone by to check on his whereabouts or asked us to monitor him for that period.

The Secret Service does not play. And that's a good thing, is what kept President Obama safe in the face of a huge threat from violent white supremacists.