New York police on Monday were looking for a man who threw a sex toy during a WNBA game, striking a girl in attendance, officials said.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0NYPD on Friday\u00a0<\/a>released a photo and a short video clip of a man wearing a\u00a0“Beavis and Butt-Head”<\/a>\u00a0T-shirt and an Ohio State cap at the\u00a0New York Liberty-Dallas Wings game last week<\/a>\u00a0at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n Police said that, during Tuesday’s game, “an unidentified individual threw an object which struck a 12-year-old female victim in the right leg.”<\/p>\n The search continued Monday, and a Liberty rep said the team is cooperating with police.<\/p>\n “All we can share right now is that there is an ongoing investigation and that we are cooperating with law enforcement,” a team spokesperson said. <\/p>\n The incident in Brooklyn was the most recent example of someone throwing sex toys toward WNBA players over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n The episodes started July 29 when a sex toy landed on the floor of a Golden State Valkyries game against the Atlanta Dream in College Park, Georgia.<\/p>\n There have been similar\u00a0incidents in Phoenix<\/a>,\u00a0Chicago\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two men have been arrested in connection with the incidents in Georgia and Phoenix.<\/p>\n \u201cThe safety of everyone in our arenas remains a top priority,” a WNBA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n “We are working closely with local and federal law enforcement to pursue all appropriate actions \u2014 including arrest and prosecution with felony charges where applicable \u2014 against anyone engaged in this conduct or otherwise involved in sponsoring this reckless and unacceptable behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York police on Monday were looking for a man who threw a sex toy during a WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-62546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}