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HI USA-NYC BIAS INCIDENT ON 12-16-2020 PART 2
THE NYPD ARRIVE AT THE SCENE
This video is of an incident that occurred at the HI-USA New York City Hostel at 891 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. Long story short: I booked a room there for three nights, December 14-17, 2020. They gave me a cold room with a broken heating unit. This was the week that big winter storm hit New York City. On top of that, you could get a contact high from all the marijuana smoke wafting through the hallways at night. And this in a no smoking facility. I was miserable. After two days, I cut short my reservation, and asked for my money back. What happened next should be a cautionary tale to any person of color living in the world today. Instead of doing the right thing, the hostel manager, “George”, tried to flip the script on me by accusing me of being “crazy”, and told me to get out of the building, or he was going to call the police. Now, why did he wanna do that? I am 60 years, and I’ve been dealing with rednecks like George all my life. This was a textbook example of an individual trying to use the police as a means to criminalize and intimidate a black man—plain and simple. It has always been my position that if you are going to call the police on someone, you had better know what all that entails, because anything could happen, and the worst often does. George did not understand this. This video is documentation of that pathetic event.
HI USA-NYC BIAS INCIDENT ON 12-16-2020 PART 2
THE NYPD ARRIVE AT THE SCENE
This video is of an incident that occurred at the HI-USA New York City Hostel at 891 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. Long story short: I booked a room there for three nights, December 14-17, 2020. They gave me a cold room with a broken heating unit. This was the week that big winter storm hit New York City. On top of that, you could get a contact high from all the marijuana smoke wafting through the hallways at night. And this in a no smoking facility. I was miserable. After two days, I cut short my reservation, and asked for my money back. What happened next should be a cautionary tale to any person of color living in the world today. Instead of doing the right thing, the hostel manager, “George”, tried to flip the script on me by accusing me of being “crazy”, and told me to get out of the building, or he was going to call the police. Now, why did he wanna do that? I am 60 years, and I’ve been dealing with rednecks like George all my life. This was a textbook example of an individual trying to use the police as a means to criminalize and intimidate a black man—plain and simple. It has always been my position that if you are going to call the police on someone, you had better know what all that entails, because anything could happen, and the worst often does. George did not understand this. This video is documentation of that pathetic event.