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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - An employee at a Virginia Country Inn & Suites by Radisson has been fired after a Facebook video captured him calling a black customer an " monkey," according to WTKR.
The hotel guest, Dee Fogleman, recorded the video on May 4 after he went to tell an employee that his mother's room smelled like smoke, according to Kelsey Cunningham, Fogleman's wife. The cellphone footage shows the employee pointing at the camera and saying, "Get your family and get out, I don't care," before saying the slur as he turned around.
"It's hurtful. We have two small children that were also in the hotel," Cunningham said. "It just shouldn't be tolerated at this point and that's why we decided to share the video."
According to the hotel's general manager, Lisa Little, the employee in the video had only worked for the Newport News hotel for a few weeks.
Little sent the following statement:
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