Animal Rights Group Targets NBA Team Owner by Trying To Out-PETA PETA

This week, an animal rights group carried out a dangerous stunt during an NBA playoff game in Minneapolis. A supporter of the group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) leapt over courtside seats behind where team Minnesota Timberwolves' majority owner Glen Taylor was seated and was tackled to the court almost immediately by a security guard, who was joined by other security in removing her from the court.

This was the third such stunt to take place on the Timberwolves' court during games this month. The others involved a woman putting glue on her hand and pretending to be stuck to the court and another chaining herself to one of the basket stanchions and tossing flyers onto the court.

In a press release, DxE identified the woman slammed to the court as Sasha Zemmel of St. Louis. "She attempted to whistle to stop play as she approached Taylor at his courtside seat, to issue a 'technical foul and ejection,' along with a 'fine' against Forbes' richest billionaire in Minnesota," the DxE release states. (Since we're being "technical," it takes two technical fouls to eject an NBA player from a game—not one—and league referees do not issue fines.)