Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson — the two men who were arrested at Starbucks while awaiting their friends — finally spoke out and told their sides of the story, days after a viral video surfaced showing the incident. 

Following the release of the video and calls for a company boycott, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized to the two men and vowed to implement racial bias training. 

Now, another Starbucks head is speaking out. 

Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz recently spoke with Gayle King on CBS This Morning regarding the arrest and suggested the two men to sit down with the store manager who called the police on them.

"I think there’s a unique opportunity for her and the two gentlemen to sit down and potentially have some kind of reconciliation,” Schultz said. “I think it is going to be possible. I think she’s interested in doing it.”

 

Schultz confirmed the manager had left the company and said, “I think for her, she is suffering in her own way. I think she recognizes that perhaps that calls shouldn’t have been made … I don’t think she intended when she made the call for the police to arrive and arrest the two men.”

Schultz also spoke on the #RaceTogether campaign, an attempt to have Starbucks employees talk to customers about race which failed. He placed some of the blame on the American people and argued that "many people in America are not prepared to talk about race." 

The chairman then tried to show that he is prepared to talk about race, noting that racism is a "systemic issue."