Man Claims He Was Beaten, Choked by Six Flags Guards
AP
Not amused: Coey Carlson admits he yelled at Six Flags guards but says he wasn't smoking pot and was handcuffed and cooperating when he was beaten and choked by as many as 15 guards.
A member of the San Francisco Youth Commission and officials at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom are giving differing versions of a scuffle with security guards at the park over the weekend.
Corey Carlson, 19, claims he suffered a concussion and broken bones in his face after being beaten by guards while celebrating the July Fourth holiday at the Vallejo park.
Carlson, a student at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, was kicked out of the park Saturday evening after he says he was wrongly accused of smoking marijuana in the park.
A park spokesman says Carlson was being escorted out of the park by security guards when he yelled obscenities and punched a guard. He admits yelling at the guards but denies hitting them.
Carlson says one guard pushed him then he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground, choked and beaten by as many as 15 other guards.
"I was pretty much face down the whole time," Carlson told the Chronicle, "handcuffed and cooperating."
When Vallejo police responded, Carlson was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery.
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