Tampa Bay, FL - TAMPA - They rolled up on motorcycles Sunday, looking for a good time and fried goodies like everyone else at the State Fair.
About 50 bikers from an array of clubs stepped off their hogs wearing group patches on their leather jackets, only to be turned away.
Fair rules, enforced by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, ban gang colors or signs.
"That's a common practice at the fair and the Strawberry Festival," said Debbie Carter, a sheriff's spokeswoman.
But a lawyer representing the bikers says their First Amendment rights have been violated.
"They're trying to stifle people's rights by using a blanket policy," said Tarpon Springs attorney Jerry Theophilopoulos. "It's suppressing their right to associate in public."
Individual bikers c....
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