OT Portland hotel calls cops on black guest in lobby

Trying, but I can't ever remember sitting on the couches in the lobby. The only time is when at some Island some where when you rent a room then you need to wait for the people to make up your room before they let you go to it. You can get quite familiar with the lobby couch in some of those places.

 

That’s crap. I’ve sat in at least 50 Portland hotel lobby’s over the years, never had a guard question me.

 

50! My goodness! I had no idea there were that many.

 

how is toronto

 

I work for a hotel and this sounds like a case where the security overstepped their boundaries. Generally we give folks a fair amount of leeway if they're sitting in the lobby talking or simply minding their own business for a period of time. A larger hotel like this will have a ton of non-guests every day who come into the lobby and there's no way that security is going to bother to question the vast majority of them. If they do something overtly suspicious or present some indication that they're not a guest (e.g. sitting idly while charging their phone in the wall socket), we will send security.

My guess is that security was profiling and less than friendly in the initial encounter, as well as ignoring the room key, and the guest was probably combative in response rather than working to diffuse the situation, hence them ultimately being escorted out of the hotel. In fairness to this hotel, there was a prostitute that was murdered in a stairwell there a few years ago, so I can understand them being more on edge with security issues than most places. But the security guard should probably be disciplined based on the details provided in the story.

 

Sounds like Jermaine is a bit of a pad sander, too. Behavior matters.

 

That's bollocks. And more than a little bigoted.

 

I have about a decade of experience as a hotel night clerk. We had no security personnel. I dealt with unauthorized trespassers nearly every shift. Some are just wretchedly filthy/smelly homeless who want to warm up and mooch coffee, some are thinking of robbing you or guests. Most are career criminals looking to steal anything laying around like a phone, laptop, or anything pawnable.

Some are methheads or alcoholics and crazy in a very dangerous way. I've had my threatened both verbally and physically, been chased around the parking lot, had glass doors shattered. Anyone you don't remember from checking them in is verified as soon as they are noticed on the property, unless they are with someone you know is a guest.

The #1 scam to buy them entrance and time to case the place is to pretend to be busy with a phone call.

Most hotels trespass several people every week or have them arrested, some of them unruly/argumentative guests but mostly criminals, hopefully without the guests noticing.

The Portland Double Tree hosts more black people in one week than most of you have given the time of day in your lives, so it's particularly funny that this bozo tried his stunt there. Such a sad life he must have to stoop so low.

 

Former pimp?

 

I don't know if it is bigoted. It is the dumbest thing posted in the history of S2.

It's so dumb that if I hadn't seen Pulp Fiction and he said it was a great movie I'd skip it.

It is such a stupid thing to say that it almost has to be pure trolling but I don't think it is and that's scary.

 

Close - used to run focus group and many had clients from far away, some had interviewees flown in and some used rented confrence rooms at the hotels. But I felt more like the prostitute then the pimp. What an awful job.

 

I stopped reading this thread after these completely shitty posts...

Sooo sick of being a liberal republican and getting called racist by those that aren't a republican. Go fuck off with that bullshit.

 

Sir, it's nothing to ....melt over.

Sheesh.

 

To rectify the issue with my oppressed conservative constituents, I took out the word 'Republicans' in all of my previous posts.

 

Dry as a bone. No sponge needed over here. I'm just saying i'm tired of it. People who continually run that narrative are also painting a picture to our ignorant youth. Stop that shit. Its wrong. Its not accurate.

Or would you be fine with me running around naming all Dems as fascist lazy fucks who want to sit on their ass and have hard working people do everything for them?

Get out of here with that bullshit. Two wrongs don't make a right, so I wont, but im tired of just reading this complete crap. Not just here but many places. It isn't funny. Its not comical.

Just stop with that BS.

Also, don't sir me. I've never been to England.

 

Thank you.

 

No problem

 

What a stupid post.