Comic and actor Mark Curry said he was racially profiled and harassed on Friday at The Mining Exchange hotel, a Wyndham Grand Hotel & Spa, in Colorado Springs.
Comic and actor Mark Curry said he was racially profiled and harassed on Friday at The Mining Exchange hotel, a Wyndham Grand Hotel & Spa, in Colorado Springs.26-minute video on Instagram
The trouble started, Phillips told the Independent, after he asked a front desk employee about The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway. “The girl there, she said she wasn’t secure answering the question and another woman took that to mean she wasn’t secure with the Black man standing at the counter,” Phillips said.
“They got me locked up you guys,” he said to his camera phone. “I feel threatened. … Look at the stance. You’re making me feel scared, sir.” The employee does not respond to several requests from Curry to back up. “Didn’t you check me in?” Curry asks her in the video. He refuses to say whether he’s a guest, having already checked in. He’s the only Black man in the lobby, and no other guests are being harassed, he said.Curry identified the white employee who harassed him in the lobby as John Cramm, the “establishment’s certified director of engineering and security,”. He was the one who first asked to see Curry’s room key to justify his presence.
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