And one guy was like - I heard a voice behind me say - 'Break his arms if you have to.The casino floor is easily accessible from the Boardwalk. They started to do the same thing to my shoulder. I thought he was trying to break my knee. “One guy is like, trying to grab my leg and bend it backwards. “I had no idea what was going on,” Oaks said. And it was just this shock of force that came down out of nowhere.” “A whole gang of people jumped on me and piled on and kicked me and hit me in the back of the head,” he said. The altercation that follows is just of out view of the cameras, but as Oaks describes it, he was almost instantly rendered helpless.

Guards surround the lanky college student. On the video, the guard appears to be bending the license in half, with Oaks objecting and trying to grab it back. His friend told him, ''You should come! It’s a great chance to meet girls.' So I was like 'fine, let's go!'' Oaks said.Īfter waiting in a long line, Oaks said a security guard took hold of his driver’s license and began to study it closely. All the closings are a result of a downward spiral in gaming revenue that comes as newly-legalized rival casinos have sprouted up in surrounding states. Two of the city’s largest casino hotels, the Atlantic Club and Showboat, announced plans to shut down recently, with a third, the gleaming 70-story Revel Casino Hotel, is on the block and could shutter if a buyer is not found. The shocking images of tourists being beaten or violently manhandled comes at an inopportune time for Atlantic City, a former gambling mecca that has suffered a sharp decline in business in recent years, according to Mayor Don Guardian. But in a written statement Harrah's said, 'Our security personnel are trained to use the least amount of force required to manage any particular incident while ensuring they are taking necessary steps to protect guests, employees and themselves.' The casino and its corporate parent company Caesars Entertainment would not provide anyone for an on-camera interview for this report and declined to comment on specific cases or the videos. “No sane person can explain the conduct that we see in those videos,” said Paul D’Amato, one of the New Jersey attorneys handling the cases against Harrah’s. All three altercations were captured on hotel surveillance cameras. In recent lawsuits, the Binns and two young men allege that Harrah's security guards used excessive physical force to subdue them in separate incidents.

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