RTThree people have been arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after several dozen people engaged in a massive fight inside a casino in Queens, New York.
An argument between two groups of people who were out gaming for the night turned into a full-scale Hollywood-style bar brawl with chairs being hurled across the room and people striking each other at random.
The brawl erupted at about 10 pm at the Ozone Park Casino next to the Aqueduct Racetrack, police said.
“It looks like 15-20 people were actually fighting amongst 300-400 patrons who were terrified and trying to get out of way. It looked way worse than it was,” a police source told the Daily News.
Police said they thought total damage was about $2,000 but a casino source said that damage was minimal.
Police gave the names of the two men arrested as Andre Rivers 23, from Brooklyn and Jovan Bovell 23 of Queens. Another man whose name was not given was also summoned for disorderly conduct.
A spokesman for the Resorts World Casino, which owns the casino where the brawl broke out said the safety of their guests is their top priority.
“We are reviewing all aspects of this unfortunate event and are fully committed to taking steps to ensure similar acts do not take place ever again,” a statement from the group said.
Ozone Park Casino opened in 2011 and suffered its first major incident just six months after it opened when a thief walked away with $63,000 in cash.
Gang brawling is just part of the Negro culture, so it’s OK. Nothing to see here; move along.
A casino near Aqueduct? Since when is there casino gambling in NYC? The horse racing has been there forever, but the only casinos were illegal speak-easy type establishments. Do they have black-jack and craps tables there? Poker?
Where’s Angel? She’ll know.
It was legalized a while back. I think the final vote was 2013. The ones that I have heard of (never been because I don’t have $$ to throw away) are at the Yonkers Race Track, Aqueduct, and Times Sq.
Here’s the link for the Times Sq. Casino.
http://www.rwnewyork.com/new-york-casino
Aqueduct
http://queens.about.com/od/horseracing/tp/Casinos-In-And-Near-New-York-City.htm
Yonkers
http://empirecitycasino.com
wow.. Thanks a lot. You’re my link to the old world. (or former life) Hard to imagine is was legal for 2 years and it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
I left Brooklyn about 6 years ago, but I still have friends there, who know a lot less about what’s going on there than you do.
Okay… I looked at the links you were so kind as to provide. The table games are all electronic video games. No good. Now I know why they’re still going to Atlantic City.
Gambler’s superstitions will definitely prevent a lot of people from playing on a computerized game.
My daughter financed her last year of school with online poker. It was ridiculous but how do you argue with it? Hey, it was a little less skin off my hide.
This is why I don’t go to places that serve alcohol, especially bars.
Drunk people are generally stupid people.