Hampton Inn employee fired for calling cops on black guests

A Hampton Inn employee in North Carolina has been fired from her job after she called police on a black woman and her two children who had been staying at the hotel and were enjoying some time out at the pool. 

The woman’s termination came after video of her confrontation with the family – filmed by Anita Williams-Wright – went viral over the weekend. 

The nearly-10 minute video shows the mother and her two children out at the hotel’s pool in Williamston, North Carolina. 

Throughout the duration of the video, Williams-Wright shares that she had been on the phone with her mother while her children swam, when the employee came and asked her if she had a room. 

She then called the police on the family. 

The woman’s termination came after video of the her confrontation with the family – filmed by Anita Williams-Wright – went viral over the weekend

Williams-Wright explains to two officers from the Williamston Police Department that the employee is discriminating against her, noting that the policemen were ‘harassing’ her because they didn’t even come to ask her what happened. 

When they ask her to prove that she is a guest, Williams-Wright flashes her room key and suggests going to show that the key works.

But once the officers ask for the mother’s name, she refuses promptly. 

‘I have a room here,’ she declares. ‘I don’t need to give my name. I didn’t break the law. I know the law.’ 

Throughout the duration of the video, Williams-Wright shares that she had been on the phone with her mother while her children swam, when the employee came and asked her if she had a room

Williams-Wright explains to two officers from the Williamston Police Department that the employee is discriminating against her, noting that the policemen were ‘harassing’ her because they didn’t even come to ask her what happened

The officers then run Williams-Wright’s license plates, which she is fine with. 

‘I’m here on business with my kids in the pool,’ the mother shares to both the officers and to the people watching her video online.   

‘It was two white people sitting over there and she said nothing to them,’ Williams-Wright tells the officers, with the employee heard in the background explaining that she checked the two other guests in. 

 When they ask her to prove that she is a guest, Williams-Wright flashes her room key and suggests going to show that the key works

Soon Williams-Wright explains that the employee had a reason for asking the mom and her kids why they were at the pool.

The irate mother said: ‘She said to me, “Oh, because it’s always people like you using the pool unauthorized.”

She adds: ‘Who is people like me?’ 

She then turns her critique to the officers, who she said never asked her ‘a single word’ besides if she had a room at the hotel. 

Williams-Wright tells one of the officers that she plans to call internal affairs on him, which prompts the policeman to begin taunting her and tells her to call the police chief.