Black Google employee said he was “escorted” off campus by security because they “didn’t believe” he worked there, report says

• A black Google product manager said he was arrested by security and his work in a viral tweet last week.

• The employee said: “Someone called security because they didn’t believe I was an employee.”

• A Google spokesperson told Forbes they take “worker’s concerns very seriously.”

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A Black Google employee said he was arrested by security at his job after someone reported him.

Angel Onuoha, who is an associate product manager at the company and a recent Harvard University graduate, tweeted that the security shutdown had stopped him and didn’t believe he was working for the company, Forbes reported.

“I was riding a bike on the Google campus and someone called security because they didn’t think I was an employee,” Onuoha said in the viral tweet published September 20. “I had to be escorted by two security guards to check my ID badge.”

Two days later, Onuoha tweeted that security “ended up removing my ID badge later that day, and I was told to call security if I had a problem with that.”

“And that was after holding me back for 30 minutes, which made me miss my bus ride home,” he added.

According to Onuoha’s LinkedIn profile, he works in the Google office in Mountain View, California.

Google and Angel did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. However, a Google spokesperson told Forbes in a statement that the company “takes this employee’s concerns very seriously” and has contacted him about the incident.

“We learned that the employee was having issues with their badge due to an administrative error and contacted the front desk team for assistance,” the spokesperson told Forbes. “After being unable to resolve the issue, the security team was called in to investigate and help resolve the issue.”

The statement continued, “More generally, one step we have taken recently to reduce badge incidents is to make it clear that employees should let our security team investigate these types of access issues. Our goal is to us. ensure that every employee sees Google as an inclusive workplace and that we create a stronger sense of belonging for all employees, ”according to Forbes.

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Last year, at the height of anti-racism protests across the country, black Google employees said they were unhappy with the company’s response to the protests, Insider reported. And in 2019, a former employee said he “never stopped feeling the burden of being black at Google” in a memo that included three ways the company could improve its diversity and inclusion efforts. .

One in four black workers said they had experienced discrimination on the job in the past year, according to a Gallup report released in 2020. Since the pandemic, many workers of color have expressed a preference for working from home over in-person micro-assaults in the office.

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