Harrah’s Atlantic City is being sued by two more patrons claiming that the casino “poorly trained security staff” violently assaulted them.
A Bergen County law firm has brought several such complaints from patrons against the casino in recent months. The suits allege that security budget cutbacks have led to the attacks from poorly trained and badly supervised security guards.
According to the Press of Atlantic City, The two men, R. Robert Coney and Sean C. Oaks, said in separate incidents the guards assaulted them, and then wrongly imprisoned them, violating their civil rights.
Their attorney Michael Maggiano told the Press that the two have contacted and requested criminal investigations from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office as well as New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to the lawsuits, both incidents happened at Harrah’s Pool After Dark and involved the men being assaulted by a large group of guards—and two special duty Atlantic City police officers working at Harrah’s in Coney’s case—after seemingly minor incidents.
Cloney was accused of trying to re-enter the venue after having left and Oaks objected to the way a guard was bending his driver’s license while checking his age.
Both men said the encounters became heated and they were attacked by a group of guards and beaten severely.
The suits are the latest of several filed against the casino. These include a lawsuit from a Florida family of three that were wrestled to the ground when complained that their key cards didn’t work in 2012. Surveillance video of that incident has been released publicly.
