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Black customers were placed in inferior rooms and prevented from using the swimming pool, Florida's Attorney General Charlie Crist charged in a civil rights lawsuit. The Florida innowned by Raj Patel had"markedly less desirable, more poorly maintained and more unattractive "rooms for Blacks compared to rooms reserved for White customers, Crist told a court in Tallahassee. Thesuit also claimed Patel told Black customers that they could not use the pool in his motel in the town of Perry. It alleged that he would pour chemicals in the pool immediately after Black guests used it and once did so while a child 3 years old and another 5 years old were still in it. [more] and [more]