OSSIPEE — Documents filed in Carroll County Superior Court shed more light on the civil and criminal case against the Jackson innkeeper who is accused of assaulting two patrons over their Islamic faith and perceived nationality.
Meanwhile the innkeeper is threatening to sue the town to remove its police chief.
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Sorry but this was not a 'hate' crime. She was merely ejecting unruly patrons from her business which is her right. She already said she had housed many other Muslims with no problem. These were just people with unacceptable behavior.
On the other hand, the guy who yanked the scarf from a woman's head for no reason was committing a hate crime.
well, i see that my comment didn't make it into the discussion, so i'll make it short this time (although this one probably won't make it through, either, given that the number of comments so far makes the site monitor's job so much easier).
ms. protasowicki may have ejected people in the past, possibly even causing unhappy customers to call the police (or was it the other way around? i didn't see that mentioned so far, in *anybody's* story), who then arrested her for being too aggressive, but i seriously doubt that this rises to the level of a "hate crime," which is but a poorly-defined cudgel in the arsenal of the State to allow it to arbitrarily put the squeeze on people for whom it does not care. a shoving match does not warrant five years in prison, and every property owner should be able to protect his property. the stated policy of the motel is that there are no refunds, and the customer is responsible for knowing that. the police *should* have served as arbiters of a commercial dispute, encouraged the dissatisfied customers to take the proffered voucher, and leave the premises. it was mr. ghallami and ms. mounaji who have escalated the charge, and thus demonstrated that they have no intention of making *any* attempt to resolve the dispute. i understand that they might have been disappointed, but having been in the exact same situation (i needed sleep and stopped at the only motel around, which smelled like a locker room and had lots of shady-looking characters standing around; i left after an hour of disturbed sleep and let the proprietor keep the money), i can assure U that the customer has to take his lumps and forget it. some people just don't want to do that.
Misrepresentation of a product or service is actionable. In this case, there were alleged to be numerous such misrepresentations by the establishment. A voucher was offered. A voucher for what? A night at a place that didn't live up to its advertisements? What's second prize? Two nights? Regarding their "No refunds" policy: That's null and void if the place was falsely represented. The dissatisfied customers simply expressed their dissatisfaction, especially after no reasonable solution was offered. They were supposed to just leave and keep quiet after the bigoted comments by the innkeeper??! And: your comment that "(sometimes)..the customer has to take his lumps and forget it." is ludicrous. The valley is a tourist destination, with a lot of lodging establishments. They'd be out of business if they had your approach to the hospitality industry. Finally: Hate Crimes: Even the people you apparently don't like very much are entitled to go about their lives without having racial epithets hurled at them. That's why the law against the actions of people like ms.Protasowicki was written.
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