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'No color policy' sign outside Las Vegas casino sends mixed messages
Las Vegas
A picture of a sign on Binion’s Hotel & Casino floor along Fremont Street Experience has sparked uproar.
The three words in large print “No color policy” get people's attention first.
“Is that about people not being allowed to wear color shirts or colored skin, what is that about?” said a mom and daughter from Canada.
“Let’s say I’ve got $200 of red; they’ll give me to blacks and you say, ‘color in’ I don’t know what this means though,” said Jim, visiting from North Carolina.
“That’s up-front racists,” said Bryan visiting from Chicago.
The sign goes on to say, “No person while on the Fremont Street Experience properties shall exhibit apparel, accessories, or decal or endorsement of any motorcycle club, gang, association or organization.”
“If you’re in a motorcycle club and you wear your colors. You can wear them anywhere. You should be able to,” said one man from Idaho.
Still confusing to those who take the time to read it completely.
Josh, an avid motorcycle rider says in most bars the ‘no-color policy’ signs are meant to cut down the tension that sometimes builds between rival motorcycle clubs inside establishments. He thinks the sign is fair.
“I do to an aspect they don’t want the club colors there because it's like a gang. You don’t want Bloods and Crips in the same vicinity with one another,” said Josh.
There was a shootout between two rival biker gangs last May on a local freeway.
Henderson Police say members of the Hells Angels targeted Vagos Motorcycle club members 6 people were wounded.
But Josh isn’t affiliated with any groups and says the sign in Binion’s Casino stereotypes all bikers.
“There’s always going to be that stigma of anybody that rides a motorcycle is in that group and that’s not true. It's just grouping us all together,” said the biker.
KSNV left a message for Binion’s manager but did not receive a callback, however, Fremont Street Experience sent us this statement:
“Fremont Street Experience does not influence or dictate policies for individual private properties. Each property has its policies in place. Fremont Street Experience does not have a restriction on “colors” today.”
