UPDATE: The employees have been fired.

Jermaine Massey has publicly called on the DoubleTree in Portland’s Lloyd District to account for why he was approached -- and subsequently kicked out -- of the hotel when he was a guest there.

“The hotel has requested a private discussion, but Mr. Massey was publicly humiliated,” said a release from Massey’s attorneys. “Therefore, he demands a public statement response.”

Massey, 34, was on the phone with his mother Sunday after a Travis Scott concert at the Moda Center when a white security guard approached him and interrupted his call to ask if he was a guest at the hotel. When Massey said he was, the guard continued to ask what room number he was in.

Massey said when he tried to cut off the interaction because he was on the phone, the guard then had a manager call Portland police to remove Massey from the premises.

Much of the event was recorded on Massey’s phone. He also posted a series of videos that recount his experience immediately after the incident when he then booked a room at the Sheraton near the Portland airport.

Now, Massey says he was guilty simply of “calling his mother while black.” The phrase references similar incidents in which white people have called the police on black people for innocuous behavior. An Oregon lawmaker was the target of one of these incidents when a white woman called the police on Janelle Bynum for canvassing in her neighborhood.

Nationally, Massey’s case has caught attention for similar comparisons. Black people have had to interact with police because they barbecued in a park or tried to walk into their own apartment buildings.

In some cases, those kind of interactions can be deadly.

In the police report, Massey is described as “very angry” and officers say he yelled. In the videos, he sounds upset but complied with police orders.

“This was a real incident where I could’ve gone to jail if I responded in a different way,” Massey said in his Instagram video recounting the night.

Massey was not charged with any crimes, but he was told both by hotel staff and Portland police that if he didn’t pack up his bags from his room and leave the property, he would be charged with trespassing. One of the officers who escorted him from the DoubleTree offered him a ride to another hotel, but Massey said in a statement Thursday that he didn’t want to leave the hotel in the back of a police car because he did nothing wrong.

“It just goes to show you that racism is still alive and well,” Massey said in the Instagram video. “It’s sad that people have to go through these things. I’m not the first, and I’m not the last. But I will not stand for injustice.”

Massey now has retained Portland lawyers Greg and Jason Kafoury. They released two questions they want the management of DoubleTree to answer:

"1. As the video shows, the incident took place in a quiet corner of the hotel lobby which was open to the public. At the time, Mr. Massey was returning a personal phone call from his mother who lives on the East Coast. Why was Mr. Massey approached by security? Why was he interrogated?

“2. The security guard told Mr. Massey that he was a ‘threat to security,’ a statement echoed by the hotel chain’s press release which states, ‘Safety and security of our guests and associates is our top priority.’ Please explain in detail in what manner Mr. Massey was a threat to safety or security.”

Hotel management told the police officers that security guard Earl Meyers was tasked with asking people in the lobby if they were guests of the hotel, according to a police report.

In the videos, Meyers says that he called police to remove Massey because he was loitering, despite Massey holding his room key card.

The general manager of the DoubleTree, Paul Peralta, said in a statement Monday that the whole incident was a misunderstanding.

“Safety and security of our guests and associates is our top priority at the Doubletree by Hilton Portland,” Peralta said in a statement. “This unfortunate incident is likely the result of a misunderstanding between our hotel and guest. We are sorry that this matter ended the way it did. We are place of public accommodation and do not discriminate against any individuals or groups.”

However, Massey said he felt singled out because he was black and was wearing a black hoodie with jeans and sneakers.

He showed in the video in which he was sitting in the lobby -- alone, in a bank of comfortable chairs, away from the crush of guests milling through the main entrance area.

This was the first time the Kent, Washington, resident had visited Portland.