I am looking for other people who have been physically assaulted, unreasonably siezed, and discriminated against by Worlds of Fun and/or Oceans of Fun Security Personnel.
I witnessed those events and then two weeks later I was victim of such events.
On the weekend of Sept 15th, I witnessed two African-American families being mistreated by a teenage Worlds of Fun employee at the Octopus attraction. Security was called as the guest asked the employee to apologize for the mistreatment. When security arrived, they provoked the guests into a confrontation by getting up in the face of the guests and pushing their chests into the guest. The guests kept telling the guards (quote), "Stop pushing me. Keep your hands off of me!" I witnessed the women and men in that family take the physical provocation for about 2 to 3 minutes and then they began to yell at the security guards get to them stop. At which point the guards, now about 10 in number, told them they were under arrest. They handcuffed the two men, as their children and spouses cried. They did not read them their Miranda rights as they cuffed them and led them away. One mother tried to ask the guards not to take her spouse. They promptly threw her to the ground and roughly cuffed her.
My children and I have had season passports with Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun for at leat four years and have witnessed white guests display similar actions and not be arrested or removed from the park. I was disgusted with the event and shared with my girlfriend that i was suprised at how agressive the security guards acted with those guests. Those children will definitely be scarred for life.
Little did i know that i would fall victim to that same abuse from the security guards of worlds of fun within a few weeks of the aforementioned tragedy. I had allowed a friend's son to use my son's passport. It was confiscated and destroyed at the front gate. We began walking to the front gate and were nearly to the parking lot when a security guard ran up to me and began telling me to stop. I told him, "You guys already took my son's passport and destroyed it, what else do you want." I was physically assualted by the guard as he kept pushing his chest into me trying to provoke me into a fight. I told him i was reaching into my bag to get my phone and call the police. As I responded that I had not touched him and he should stop touching me... He called for back up using a code "93" (I believe that was the code). Then he cuffed me and told me I was under arrest. He never read me the "Miranda rights", although his supervisor insisted he was a police officer as he interogated me and used the statements he elicted for his report. During the interogation there were approximately 10 to 12 people randomly coming in and asking what happened. One thin guard, with short brown hair in his early twenties said (quote), "If you'd have reached into your bag and I was the officer there... You'd be on the ground in a world of hurt! I don't care what you said you were doing."
They coerced a false statement from my friend and told her she would be released if she cooperated. They then came back and told me i would be charged for attempted theft of three admissions. Although only one passport was presented at the gate, they confiscated all five passports which I purchased. The supervisor of security, if not a certified police officer in Kansas City Missouri made a false statement to me. As I told him I was wanting to call the KCMO Police... He stated (quote), "I am the police, so what do you want to say to me!!!" I told him i was sorry and i now knew what i did was wrong. One of the officers completing the police report said, "Most of the people that get caught doing this we let go." He didn't elaborate on why i was being charged, while others were let go. But after my reflection of what happened to the African-American families two weeks earlier, and the fact that I am a hispanic male that was with a white woman... It became clear why I was not forgiven.
I am looking for other people who have been experienced such acts by Worlds of Fun and would like to be part of a class action lawsuit against them. If interested please contact me by responding to me.
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