REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A black man sued Travelodge in San Mateo County Court, claiming a desk clerk would not let him check in to a hotel in San Francisco, though he had prepaid for his room with a debit card, then called police and told them, falsely, that he had a gun and had threatened her with it.
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