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An employee at a Hampton Inn in North Carolina has been fired after calling the cops on Black guests who were using the pool. Two police officers responded to a trespassing complaint at the Williamston location on Friday after the employee, an unidentified white woman, reported finding two children unattended in the pool. The children said their mother was watching from a car, reports ABC News. Anita Williams-Wright, who'd booked two rooms, began a livestream as she was met by the employee and officers, who demanded proof that she was a guest. Williams-Wright refused to identify herself, but she presented her key to access the pool. The 10-minute video, viewed more than 1 million times, continues with the police running Williams-Wright's license plate. Because "I'm the only Black person here, in this pool, they want to question me," she said.
Williams-Wright said the employee didn't approach two white guests using the pool. "She said to me, 'Oh, because it's always people like you using the pool unauthorized.' Who [are] 'people like me?'" A rep for Hampton Inn owner Hilton said the company has a "zero tolerance for racism or discrimination" and that the "team member is no longer employed at the hotel," per USA Today. It's unclear if further disciplinary action was taken. The employee had told officers that "her manager wanted the people arrested," according to the police report. It describes the case as "unfounded." Police have since launched an internal investigation over the handling of the call. Williams-Wright noted officers should have left when she presented her key. "I didn't commit a crime," she said. "You are degrading me like this in front of my kids," who "are trying to enjoy themselves in the pool."
https://www.newser.com/story/292980/hotel-employee-calls-cops-on-black-guests-in-pool.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)stopped in its tracks, now. I'm glad the employee was fired, for her blatant racism and treating guests like this at the Hampton Inn. She could have done due diligence (check the hotel registry first) but instead chose not to, and instead called the police, which of course was totally uncalled for. The former employee got her a&& handed to her, and she should apologize too, to the guests. For some reason, I bet she didn't (apologize).
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)...was that the "manager told me" part was unfounded.
Not saying I'm right, but I'm thinking the manager wasn't actually involved. She might have made that up.
sop
(10,170 posts)and promoting people who do. One would think management could simply send out a memo to their employees telling them not to discriminate on the basis of race.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)is more like it.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Anonymous people hiding behind their keyboard to post the most racist shit prices that America is racist.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)and not poolside while her two children played in the pool!
Music Man
(1,184 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)Swimming while black, OMFG This employee targeted this family. Calling the cops...WTH
This is not how we treat each other!