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

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61. The 'federal agency' that did this was in place to protect the POTUS on his property.

While the Starbucks is a leased space within that building and has his permission to be there via their payment of rents, fees and utilities, and they have general patrons who come and go from the premises, it is not a public space. Just as 'rump has the right to protect his space, so does the Starbucks franchisee (or the parent company if this is one of their corporate-owed storefronts). When you, as a patron, enter into a café, restaurant, storefront, shopping center, etc., you are entering private premises. Any and all of those owners have the right to make rules or policies pertaining to whom they allow to use their premises and under what conditions they have the right to have you removed from them, short of violating your civil rights. You may be within your right to protest, but they have a concurrent right to remove you from their space if they don't want you there.

The SS is solely and exclusively in place there because it's their job to do so. People have been getting detained and questioned by the SS for decades when they observe behavior considered possibly threatening or a precursor to a threat. They're not there because they are necessarily fans of this guy. It's their job and their job is to protect the POTUS and, presumably in this case, protect the premises that are owned by this guy. There are enough credible threats made on a daily basis to make this requisite. It was done during President Obama's term, and I would guess they were every bit as up in the grilles of folks they tagged as the ones who were in Ms. Byrne's. Bet on it. Thank god they were because otherwise, does anyone seriously believe that one of these right wing, racists neo-Nazis wouldn't have tried?