People were baffled. The lawsuit alleges that this was …
Again, this is not somebody threatening anyone at the Garden. This is not anybody violating any security policies or procedures. This is a transgender woman on Pride Night getting a good seat.
And so your security sources, when it comes to the people who were not involved in the filing of the civil suit but spoke to some of the allegations involved, what do they say about the Garden wanting this granular, literally second-by-second level of surveillance? Noah Shachtman: People were baffled. The lawsuit alleges that this was an act of gender profiling, and source after source said some variation of: this was harassment.
This was not okay. She posed no threat. This was just a transgender woman being a fan, walking around .
The lawsuit, which is again filed by this former MSG security staffer, alleges that the Garden security boss believed that Nina’s “presence as an openly transgender woman” could “damage MSG’s reputation. ” And in fact, the lawsuit claimed that people who did pose actual threats, who actually had much more criminal background or what have you, didn’t get this kind of surveillance. One fan, one night, eighteen pages.
And this wasn’t the only time that Nina Richards was surveilled. She was tracked over a series of months, and maybe even years. YouTube This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: People were baffled.