Darth Vader and Zorro are in a First Amendment battle with police and the Venetian Hotel-Casino on the Strip in Vegas. Brothers Jason and Sebastian Perez-Morciglio, who impersonate Zorro and Darth Vader, say in a federal lawsuit that they were “kidnapped” by Venetian security officers, “strapped to a chair” and held in a small room for more than an hour in January before being kicked off the property. They say they were also searched by metro police officers and handcuffed. The two men perform on the Strip for tips, but they say they were just standing on the sidewalk in front of the Venetian when they were arrested and that Sebastian wasn’t wearing a costume. The ACLU has joined the brothers in the legal battle and says the Venetian wrongly assumed the public sidewalk was private property.
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