Oregon hotel fires employees who called police on black guest for 'trespassing'

Oregon hotel fires employees who called police on black guest
(Image credit: CNN/Screenshot)

A DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday announced it has fired two employees who called the police on a black guest who was talking on his cellphone in the hotel lobby.

The guest, Jermaine Massey, said he was on the phone with his mother when the employees reported him for trespassing. Massey filmed much of the interaction and posted it to Instagram.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Explore More
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.