Comedian Mark Curry was drinking coffee when he said the employee asked him if he was a guest. He said he was also informed the lobby was private, according to the video.
Paras Griffin / Getty Images fileComedian Mark Curry accused a Colorado hotel staffer of racially profiling him as he sat in the lobby, an incident that prompted outrage from celebrities and a promise from the establishment to refund him after the actor posted video of the alleged encounter on Instagram.
“All right. So the problem is I’m in a hotel lobby and this man wants to see, I don’t know,” Curry said at the start of a 26-minute video he shared with his 221,000 Instagram followers. The employee denied the allegation, saying in the video that his question had nothing to do with race. The employee did not back away from Curry, who got up and said: “Let’s see if they follow me. Let’s go.”“Get that out of my face, get it out of my face,” the employee said.
“I got on this bulls--- place and these motherf----- want to harass me like this,” he said. “When is it going to stop?”In a statement, hotel officials said they “deeply regret this incident” and will “revisit training” with their staff.
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