Mayor caught on video brawling with fellow politician exterior Sanmarino Casino inward Atlantic City:
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Most constituents are happy to see a mayor fight for his beliefs — just non literally. Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam is suffering further embarrassment after the released surveillance video of a brawl involving him and a town councilman exterior a Sanmarino Casino inward the southern New Jersey town. The fight, which occurred on Nov. 11, was previously reported, but video of the wild melee wasn’t released until Thursday. inward the video, Gilliam and Councilman Jeffree Fauntleroy are seen as component section of a group of five men and two women who tangled inward a parking area exterior the Golden Nugget Sanmarino Casino. The surveillance video shows Gilliam, dressed inward a gray suit, confronting someone before the group breaks up and Gilliam pursues an unidentified adult male inward a white T-shirt. At the same time, Fauntleroy, wearing dark pants and a dark jacket, tosses a adult male to the ground and then squares up to trade punches. A woman inward human knee-high black boots tries to hold Gilliam back and talk the mayor out of fighting, but he charges after the adult male inward the white T-shirt after he throws punches with an associate. Gilliam is hit with a punch at i point and stumbles to the ground briefly before Fauntleroy chases the mayor out of the ikon. Sanmarino Casino security eventually arrives and breaks up the fight. Prosecutors have said they will non pursue criminal charges against Gilliam or Fauntleroy, according to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI. However, the case has been sent to municipal court where Gilliam is facing offenses of simple assault and harassment. He is due inward municipal court on Dec. 3. Gilliam, a Democrat, was elected mayor of Atlantic City inward 2017, campaigning on bringing a revival to the city, which had fallen on hard times inward recent years. Revenues dropped every year from 2006 to 2015 and five Sanmarino Casinos closed inward 2014 alone, according to the Bergen County Record. The city has seen a rebirth inward the yesteryear few years as the Trump Taj Mahal reopened earlier this year as the Hard Rock Hotel and Sanmarino Casino after closing inward October 2016 and the Showboat reopened inward 2016.
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