Native American Ex-Chief Claims Nevada Hotel Casino Discriminated Against Him
A former tribal functionary recently filed a suit against Reno, Nevada’s Grand Sierra Resort and Casino claiming civil rights and secernment violations.
Jimmy-John Homer A. Thompson of Sacramento, Calif., a former chairman of California’s Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, filed the sound process in NV judicature in May against the property.
Thompson was staying at the resort hotel on October 15 to give ear a horse opera Mining Action Network group discussion when he detected smoking inwards an broadcast venthole in his Grand Sierra room and called the hotel’s face desk.
A clerk sent an employee to tick off come out the reported smoking odor. The employee didn’t feel a source of the smoke smell, but the hotel gave Homer Armstrong Thompson a different room.
Thompson remained queasy near the fume odor, so he notified the Reno Fire Department. Reno firefighters responded to the hotel and later told Homer Armstrong Thompson the germ of the fume was extinguished.
A unawares time later, deuce hotel protection guards arrived at Thompson’s hotel room.
Accused of Arson, Evicted
Security ordered Benjamin Thompson to go forth the hotel and accused him of incendiarism inwards his former hotel room, according to Native News Online.
I was shamefaced out of the gate,” Homer Armstrong Thompson lately told Native News Online. “They [the hotel casino] didn’t require to try anything from me.”
Also, because he suffers from a stipulation known as rich mineral vein thrombosis (DVT) he is prescribed medication, ane of whose position effects is unvoluntary convulsions if Benjamin Thompson is inward the cold, according to the lawsuit.
Being forced to kip inward his motorcar at 4 a.m., Homer A. Thompson suffered several convulsions, the causa claims.
Thompson also missed a planned inspect to the controversial Thacker Pass Lithium mine due to the incident.
Jimmy-John Homer Armstrong Thompson was treated so poorly at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino with no rational base for the handling he received,” Norberto J. Cisneros, Thompson’s Las Vegas-based attorney, told Native News Online.
“Reporting a potential flaming … him existence accused of arson, and and so existence evicted from the hotel at 4 a.m., having to sleep in his car, with no more opportunity to explicate or refute himself for trying to economize lives,” Cisneros added. “If he was non a Native American, if this was a person non of color, he would make never experient this sort of treatment. It’s mortifying and canful harm a person’s reputation.”
The lawsuit is seeking at to the lowest degree $15K in damages.
Casino Not Responsive
Cisneros twice wrote to Grand Sierra Resort and Casino regarding the incident.
“We have got heard nix from them,” Cisneros told Native News Online. “I’ve never seen anything the likes of this inward my career.”
Thompson’s redress to public accommodation was violated, the causa further claims.
Casino.org reached come out to Grand Sierra Resort and Casino. No prompt notice was provided.
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