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On Sunday, Twitter user and video interviewer Quinton Washington visited the site in Charleston, S.C. where 9 members of Mother Emanuel AME Church were massacred in June.

Washington snapped a photo from a distance showing the 200-year-old church against a cloudy gray sky on a “warm, Sunday in December.”

He uploaded the innocent-looking photo to his Twitter.com account, which was retweeted by 6 of his followers. But, apparently, 6 sets of eyes were too many for the staff at Marriott Courtyard Charleston Historic District hotel.

Someone from MCCHD hotel tweeted Washington asking him not to include the hotel which sits catty corner across from the church.

“@QuintinOnCamera We respectfully ask you not to include the hotel in mother AME photos. TY,” the hapless staffer wrote.

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If Marriott thought they were protecting the brand by asking a tourist not to include their hotel in any photos, they were mistaken.

Washington retweeted Marriott’s tweet and now Marriott has a public relations nightmare on their hands.