'He is a child!!!' Teen son of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter wrongfully accused of stealing [View all]
A Black Grammy-Award-winning jazz trumpeter said he was made to watch his 14-year-old son assaulted and accused of stealing a white woman’s iPhone while the hotel he was a guest at only further enabled the woman. “I hate I have to post this!!! I am furious!!!” Keyon Harrold said in an Instagram post Saturday. “We see this crap happening all the time, but it hits different when it hits home!!!” He said when the incident occurred at Arlo SoHo, the woman who demanded Harrold’s son show her his phone to prove it wasn’t stolen wasn't even a guest at the boutique hotel in lower Manhattan. She had checked out on Wednesday. Still, video of the incident showed a hotel worker allowing the woman to make demands of Harrold’s son.
“No he’s not leaving,” the woman was shown saying. “Show me the proof.” Harrold responded: “Are you kidding me? You better get on.” He earlier suggested she use the cellphone feature “find my iPhone” and told her to “get a life.” She, however, didn’t take his advice. Someone can be heard calling for security in the video, at which point the woman appears to step out of the camera’s view then back in front of the viewpoint. “No, I’m not letting him walk away with my phone,” she said.
The hotel apologized to Harrold in a statement emailed to Daily Kos Sunday. “We’re deeply disheartened about the recent incident of baseless accusation, prejudice and assault against an innocent guest of Arlo hotel,” a hotel spokesman said in the statement. “In investigating the incident further, we’ve learned that the manager on duty promptly called the police regarding the woman’s conduct and that hotel security intervened to prevent further violence; still, more could have been done to de-escalate the dispute.
“No Arlo guest – or any person – should be subject to this kind of behavior. We want to apologize to Mr. Harrold and his son for this inexcusable experience, and have reached out to them directly to express our sincere regret and to offer help in dealing with this traumatic event. We are committed to making sure this never happens again at any of our hotels.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2004355/--We-see-this-crap-happening-all-the-time-Son-of-Grammy-Award-winning-trumpeter-accused-of-stealing
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