Cops called on Black Hotel Guest Making A Call In Lobby Accused Of Loitering

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A black guest at an Oregon hotel is accusing the staff of racially profiling him after the police were called on him as he made a phone call in the lobby. He ultimately was forced to give up his room.

Jermaine Massey, in videos posted to Instagram, said he was in Portland on Saturday to see rapper Travis Scott perform when, after the concert, he got a call from his mother on the East Coast. Because of the late hour of her call, he said that he suspected that it may be an emergency so he found a “remote area” in the DoubleTree Hotel’s lobby and answered the call.

Though it’s not entirely clear what happened immediately after that, videos posted by Massey show a white security guard, identified only as “Earl,” telling him that he is no longer welcome at the hotel and that police have been called.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hotel-calls-police-on-black-guest-making-call-in-lobby-guest_us_5c24e157e4b08aaf7a8e2bad?fbclid=IwAR3nyAUYrPL0Dt7SsmHnTO2kexCC99ZjZHm4DBjR6JehmKxhy3P3evjs-ho

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1. This shit has to stop. Seriously, what the actual fuck?!?