UPDATE:
ATLANTIC CITY – The 40/40 Club has provided additional footage of an incident that resulted in two patrons apparently being beaten by security, police confirmed Tuesday.
A video shot by DJ Zeke outside the club and posted on YouTube tells only part of the story, according to complaints signed by three employees.
Tape from the club’s security cameras inside the building was brought to police when manager Carlos Lopez and security guards David Gulley and Ivan Ramos signed complaints against two men from Neptune, Monmouth County, later shown being kicked and punched by about a dozen men outside the club.
The club’s tape shows Tyrell Durant and Leonard Clark scuffling with security inside then being escorted out down a stairway, according to police who have seen the tape.
Durant, 26, denied wrongdoing in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday.
No one at the 40/40 Club would comment on the tape, which has become an online sensation.
DJ Zeke, whose real name is Ezekiel Akinyemi, according to his Twitter account, first posted the video at about 1 a.m. Sunday, according to a link from his Facebook page.
At least one of the attackers in the video is wearing a “Security” shirt. He runs over to the group that has Durant surrounded near a car, pulls a couple of men out of the way and then punches Durant in the left side of his head.
Police are still trying to identify the men in the video, Sgt. Monica McMenamin said Tuesday.
Check out footage captured by DJ Keke below:
Bouncers from Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Atlantic City are currently being placed under investigation for their role in a physical fight which happened outside the venue over the weekend.
Details on the incident began to circulate Tuesday (December 1) morning.
Despite pleas to “cool out” and “don’t hit him”, approximately 12 employees of Jay-Z’s 40/40 club in Atlantic City mercilessly beat two men in a parking lot scuffle. In the video, workers can be seen kicking one man repeatedly after he was beaten to the ground, persuaded to stop by a management level employee wearing a suit and tie. Most of the assailants were wearing military style black uniforms which were identified as “security” and “event staff”. (NJ Jackson News)
Additional reports claim the 40/40 Club workers acted in self-defense.
The brawl began when the two Neptune, Monmouth County, men — Tyrell Durant and Leonard Clark — started causing trouble inside the nightclub co-owned by well-known rapper Jay-Z, according to complaints the club manager and a security guard signed against the two. Security guard David Gulley, of Brooklyn, N.Y., told police Durant, 26, struck him in the face. Manager Carlos Lopez, of Hoboken, Hudson County, also said Durant ripped his collar during the struggle. In a separate complaint, security guard Ivan Ramos, of Ocean City, charges Clark, 25, punched him. (Press Of Atlantic City)
Clark, on the other hand, gave his account of the encounter.
“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, Leonard Clark, have been charged with disorderly conduct.Durant said he and Clark, 25, also of Neptune, were at 40/40 to celebrate Clark’s birthday. Clark was at the bar, having just ordered a $15 plate of chicken, when a bouncer who had just ejected someone else from the club told him to move, Durant said. (Associated Press)
The club workers are reportedly staying mum on the topic.
A rep for the club tells TMZ: “We can’t comment on the fight. We are doing our own investigation in addition to the police investigation. It’s really in the hands of the police at this point. The 40/40 club has never had anything like this happen before and we take the safety of our patrons seriously.” (TMZ)
No further details have been released as of now.
