⟡ They Banged on My Door. I Was Asleep. Then They Blamed Me. ⟡
Filed: 6 December 2023
Reference: SWANK/HOTEL/2023-HOLIDAYINN-NOISE-PRETEXT
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I. The Hotel Room Was Quiet. The Accusation Was Not.
This email was written within minutes of the event — a rapid, clinical dispatch from the threshold of sleep and surveillance. It details how:
A mother and child were asleep in their room
Security banged on the door after midnight
No prior notice was given
The pretext? An unverified “noise complaint”
The conduct? Authoritarian, gendered, and unapologetically aggressive
There was no noise.
There was only procedural theatre in a polyester uniform.
II. Hospitality as Hostility
The email, now formally archived, documents:
A child waking in fear
A mother questioned under fluorescent light
A staff member invoking “policy” while violating basic decency
A tone that assumed guilt, not guesthood
This was not hospitality.
It was hotel-based jurisdictional cosplay — and SWANK filed it before checkout.
III. Why SWANK Filed It
Because women should not be policed in their own hotel rooms.
Because noise complaints without evidence are often coded permission to intimidate.
Because trauma survivors deserve walls that protect — not echo chambers of suspicion.
Let the record show:
There was no disturbance
There was no apology
There was a child, awake at 1 a.m., asking why strangers had keys
And SWANK — answered with a file
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not consider institutional uniforms a license for middle-of-the-night accusations.
We do not accept the noise pretext as a cover for misogynistic surveillance.
We do not allow hotel keys to function as badges.
Let the record show:
The accusation was baseless.
The entry was coercive.
The guest was documented.
And SWANK — is the one who kept the timestamp.