CHARGES PLANNED AGAINST 40/40 BOUNCERS
Dec 2nd, 2009 by Bilal Ali
*Police in Atlantic City plan to file charges against several bouncers who were videotaped beating two men outside Jay Z’s 40/40 night club early Saturday.
The video, shot by a disc jockey who had just finished performing inside the venue, shows about nine security guards kicking and punching two men in a parking lot. One of them could be heard screaming, “Stop! Stop! Stop! I didn’t do nothing!”
The footage shows one of the two men being kicked while he was lying on the ground, and also shows as many as six bouncers swarming and punching the other man, Tyrell Durant, 26, of Neptune.
“We came down to Atlantic City to have a good time, not to have the crap beat out of us,” Durant told The Associated Press on Monday. “We did not do anything to deserve this.”
Durant and his friend, 25-year-old Leonard Clark, were charged with disorderly conduct and released pending a Dec. 11 court date. An ambulance was called for Durant, who said he was sprayed in the face by a fire extinguisher. He was treated at the scene. Durant also said bouncers stole his watch and some cash from him.
Durant said it all started when he and Clark, also of Neptune, were at 40/40 to celebrate Clark’s birthday. Clark was waiting for his $15 chicken order at the bar when a bouncer who had just tossed someone else from the club told him to move, Durant said. Clark protested, saying he was waiting for his food, and a bouncer began escorting him from the club, Durant said.
Durant said he followed Clark, asking why he was being ejected. He said security grabbed him and led the two of them down a steep staircase where Durant felt like he was about to fall and grabbed the closest person to him to keep his balance. The club manager told police someone ripped his collar during the altercation inside the club, and police said Durant punched a security guard in the face.
The video was shot and posted to YouTube by a Staten Island, N.Y., disc jockey who calls himself DJ Zeke. It starts when security and the two patrons are outside the club in a parking lot.

