The Bay Area rapper E-40 was ejected from the Golden 1 Center by enviornment safety guards on Saturday evening throughout a NBA sport between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. Video circulating from the evening reveals E-40 being faraway from his courtside seats in the course of the fourth quarter of the sport. In an announcement (shared by sports activities reporter Shams Charania), E-40 known as for the Kings franchise to research the safety crew on account of racial bias.
“On Saturday night, I was subjected to disrespectful heckling over the course of the Warriors-Kings game in Sacramento. During the fourth quarter, I finally turned around and addressed one heckler in an assertive but police manner,” E-40 wrote in his assertion. “Yet, shortly thereafter, Kings’ security approached me, assumed that I instigated the encounter and proceeded to kick me out of the arena.”
“Unfortunately, it was yet another reminder that — despite my success and accolades as a musician and entrepreneur — racial bias remains prevalent. Security saw a disagreement between a Black man and a white woman and immediately assumed that I was at fault,” he wrote. His assertion continued:
I’ve attended numerous NBA video games all through my life and have all the time prided myself in my professionalism, so this expertise has been jarring. I used to be completely humiliated by the Kings’ safety crew and I’m calling on the franchise to research the appalling conduct that transpired.
I’m actually grateful for my followers and supporters who’ve reached out to specific their concern and disappointment relating to these disheartening circumstances and I hope these concerned are held accountable for his or her habits.
Local paper The Mercury News mentioned one fan in attendance, who requested to not be named, mentioned {that a} feminine Kings fan was yelling at E-40 all through the sport to sit down down, and that profanity was exchanged between the 2 events.
Neither franchise has commented publicly on the state of affairs but.