⟡ SWANK Safety Archive: Public Space Misconduct Series ⟡
“This Wasn’t Hospitality. It Was Trespass in Uniform.”
Filed: 6 December 2023
Reference: SWANK/HOTEL/SECURITY-HARASSMENT/HOLIDAYINN-2023
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I. I Paid for Privacy. I Received Surveillance.
On 6 December 2023, a Holiday Inn security guard attempted to knock on the hotel room door of a disabled woman travelling alone — at midnight.
Not once.
Twice.
Without cause. Without invitation. Without apology.
The reason? None given.
The effect? Intimidation — dressed in corporate polyester and institutional smirk.
This wasn’t a safety check.
This was harassment with a staff badge.
II. What the Email Documents
A real-time, written warning to management from the guest
A legally literate refusal:
“Do not ever knock on my hotel room door at 12am again or I will call the police.”
The line between paid lodging and state-adjacent intrusion, crossed without hesitation
The gendered entitlement of hotel security: assuming access, invoking silence, expecting no reply
This is not about courtesy.
It is about jurisdiction over one’s own door.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because they always say:
“It was just a knock.”
“We were only doing our job.”
“She overreacted.”
And yet:
They would not knock on a man’s door.
They would not do it twice.
And they would not have met a line as clear as this one.
We filed it because:
The door was paid for.
The boundary was physical.
And the response was legally immediate.
This is not about discomfort.
It is about legal territory — and the architecture of refusal.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not grant informal access to institutional uniforms.
We do not accept midnight knocks as “routine.”
We do not allow hospitality to become surveillance with tea kettles.
Let the record show:
The door was knocked.
The warning was written.
The police were named.
And the guest was not intimidated — she was archived.
This was not service.
This was trespass with corporate backing.
And now, it is filed in the only archive that bites back.
⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
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