An African American man who recorded video of two hotel employees asking him to leave the property last year has sued Hilton Hotels and DoubleTree by Hilton in Portland, Oregon
Jermaine Massey claimed he was falsely arrested and discriminated against because of his race when he was a guest at the DoubleTree by Hilton on December 22, according to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Circuit Court in Multnomah County.Massey was seated in the hotel lobby talking on his cell phone to his mother, who lives in the East Coast, when hotel security"interrupted him, demanding to know if he was a guest," his attorneys said in a news release. "When Mr.
— DoubleTree Portland December 29, 2018 Sami Qureshi, area general manager of the hotel management company WMK Management LLC, which owns Doubletree by Hilton Portland, said:"We are committed to providing a welcoming environment to everyone who visits our property, and have zero tolerance for discrimination or bias of any kind."Since the incident last year, WMK Management has made diversity, equity and inclusion training mandatory for employees, Qureshi said in the statement.
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