Rapid City Hotel Owner Arrested Following Altercation with Native American Protestors

Earlier DU threads:
• South Dakota hotel owner bans Native Americans because she can't tell "who is bad Native or a good"
• A hotel banned Native Americans. The Sioux served a trespassing order.

Also: Racist Hotel Owner Assaulted Demonstrators With Cleaning Spray, Cops Say (Daily Beast)

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Source: Native News Online

Rapid City Hotel Owner Arrested Following Altercation with Native American Protestors

BY DARREN THOMPSON MAY 27, 2022

The hotel owner who banned Native Americans from her property in South Dakota two months ago was arrested today for assaulting protesters at a demonstration organized by NDN Collective.

Connie Uhre, 75, the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City, was charged with three counts of simple assault by the Rapid City Police Department for spraying what appeared to be a cleaning agent in the faces of several people outside the hotel.

Uhre’s arrest was confirmed by Warren Poaches, a spokesperson for the Rapid City police. "More information on the crime will be available on Monday," Poaches told Native News Online.

The incident, which was recorded, occured during a protest at the hotel that was organized by NDN Collective. Both Uhre and the Grand Gateway have been under fire since March, when she made disparaging comments about Native American people and banned them from the hotel property after a shooting incident on the property that eventually left one dead.

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Read more: https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rapid-city-hotel-owner-arrested-following-altercation-with-native-american-protestors



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Source: Daily Beast

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Racist Hotel Owner Assaulted Demonstrators With Cleaning Spray, Cops Say

Justin Rohrlich
Reporter
Published May. 27, 2022 8:12PM ET

A South Dakota hotel owner was arrested Friday and charged with three counts of assault after allegedly spraying Native American protesters outside with cleaning solution, police said. Grand Gateway Hotel proprietor Connie Uhre, 75, has been under fire since March, when she said she would be banning Native Americans from the property following a homicide on the premises. The outraged bar staff quit over the ugly verbal attack, and there have been regular demonstrations out front ever since. In video from Friday’s incident, Uhre can be seen exiting her vehicle and attacking at least three people with a can of Pledge. One was sprayed directly in the face, the Rapid City Journal reported.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/connie-uhre-anti-native-rapid-city-south-dakota-hotel-owner-arrested-and-charged-with-assaulting-protesters