Knicks Release Security Cam Footage Of Charles Oakley Incident

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He came and I don’t know who he is, I was born in the seventies but I don’t follow basketball like that. These guys sat down in my section. He came in, I don’t know if he was with these guys. As soon as he came in he sat down, “What the f they looking at, why they looking at me, where dolan at?” I said sir calm down. [She was trying to take his order because he had mentioned to the runner something about popcorn] He said “Do you know who I am? Why the hell these f’n security guards in my face, why they looking at me.” The security guards came over and said some words. He said “get out of my face.” I didn’t communicate with him. He kept going on “F this one, f that one. Dolan this, Dolan that, what the hell you security guards gonna do. Yeah, you, you you, pointing them out.” I seen him [one of the guards?] come back saying he was looking for something, but I didn’t see a wallet. My heart was pounding, I was like oh my God.

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He came down, the usher brought them to their seats, sec 7 seats 11 & 12 row 1. At that time he was talking with some fans. When he looked over to his left, you know how we usually have our security officers and people against the wall? He said to his friends “You got all these frickin’ security here looking at me, I don’t know what the frick they’re looking at, but they’re getting on my frickin’ nerves.” At this time I look over to my left because I hear the cursing. We make eye contact. He tells me “What the frick are you looking at?” All I said was “I’m not looking at you.” At this time he proceeded with the curse bombs, saying f’ing this, f’ing that. When he saw Kori looking at him, he called Kori a rat bastard. He said he’s always sucking on Dolan’s dick. At this point Kori came over and Mr. Redmond came over and he stood up and was just cursing at them and that’s when he first put his finger on Tom’s forehead and Tom moved aside a little bit, and he stepped up on the grey platform area and that’s when he pushed his head with his two fingers. Now at this time Jayson is there, Kori is there, the officer who was assigned there was there. The other gentlemen who was doing security with John [Donohue], the African American man was there. At this time Jayson was trying to calm Oakley down and this is when Oakley’s hand came down, he swung down forcefully and knocked Jayson’s hand away. And then Jayson again tried to calm Mr. Oakley down and that’s when Oakley pushed him twice. At that point, that’s when the police officer and Jayson, and the officer who works for John grabbed him with whatever security officers were there to bring him from Section 7 to the Zamboni gate. At that point he fell down and was out of my view. After they passed me, I went back to my spot because I was at Mr. Dolan’s area. When they came to him originally, Oakley fell down. He fell twice. He fell the first time when security came over to him and asked him to leave. He seemed pretty inebriated. I can’t tell because I couldn’t smell anything. He was pretty nasty.

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