A black man was on the phone with his mom while in a hotel lobby -- and then the police were called

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/us/portland-hotel-police-black-guest-trnd/index.html

A black man was on the phone with his mom while in a hotel lobby -- and then the police were called

A guest at a Portland hotel is alleging he was harassed by staff when he was asked to leave the property after taking a phone call in the hotel lobby late Saturday night.

Washington state resident Jermaine Massey was in the lobby of the Portland DoubleTree when a security guard informed him that police were on their way to escort him off the property.

In a series of Instagram videos of the incident recorded by Massey and obtained by CNN, he is heard asking the guard, "But why? But I'm staying here." "Not anymore," the security guard replies.

Massey then told a hotel desk staffer that he was taking a personal phone call in the lobby when the guard began to question why he was there. At one point in the videos, he shows the two men his keycard envelope with the room number and date written on it.

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update: employees put on leave. Hotel apologizing. Watch the video... the security guard had absolutely NO REASON to call the cops.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-doubletree-apologizes-on-twitter-to-man-who-was-calling-his-mother-while-black-says-employees-on-leave/283-e6a15aeb-61fe-4ce1-a957-d4eab1beb8e0?ref=exit-recirc

[FreepFryer]

1. In other news, Doubletree hotel in Portland to be newest African-American owned local biz.

Would serve them right. I hope he does not relent until he gets his pound and a half of flesh.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Attorneys must be knocking down his door offering to represent him.

[Cha]

3. JFC! How dumb do you have to be

to not know who's staying in your hotel where you work?

And, even IF he weren't staying there.. maybe they shouldn't make anyone leave for making a damn phone call!

Damn racists.. Thanks for the Update, Demo

[Demovictory9]

5. He showed them his key card. It didn't matter. The security guard decided he wanted him OUT

FOR NOT REASON... the security guard doesn't even give a reason. Black man in the lobby... get out.

[Cha]

6. I know! It makes No sense at all!

The security guard should be FIRED!

[onlyadream]

4. While reading the OP I kept saying to myself...

Please don’t be dead now...

Glad he lived thru this latest example of YES, RACISM STILL EXISTS!

Seriously, what the actual F$#@?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. me too -- "please be a survivor this time"

[Downtown Hound]

7. I would have made them arrest me

And then sued the hotel, the security guards, and the police all for false arrest, discrimination, and harassment. And collect my rather large check a year later. And that's exactly what I would have told them while they were harassing me. "You think I won't spend a night in jail for the hundreds of thousands you're going to owe me after this is done? Think again."

[Demovictory9]

8. he has an attorney

[onethatcares]

9. his attorney

is going to win big too.