INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 The Celtics\u2019 Jaylen Brown criticized the city of Beverley Hills and its police department after officers shut down a panel he hosted Saturday evening for 741, his footwear and apparel brand.<\/p>\n
Brown said police ended an event held at 7 p.m. at a Beverly Hills mansion Saturday night, costing him \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a pop-up talking about culture, talking about the future of independence, creative control, et cetera. A bunch of different people that were just there to just talk about positivity in the community,\u201d Brown said Sunday after the NBA All-Star Game at Intuit Dome. \u201cAnd it just seemed somebody didn\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city of Beverley Hills said in a statement that a permit request for the event was declined.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Saturday, Feb. 14, the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) responded to an event taking place at a private residence in the Trousdale neighborhood of the City. An event permit had been applied for and denied by the City due to previous violations associated with events at the address,\u201d the statement said. \u201cDespite the fact that the permit was denied, organizers still chose to proceed with inviting hundreds of guests knowing that it was not allowed to occur. BHPD responded and shut down the unpermitted event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown said he and his team never applied for a permit because they didn\u2019t need one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing a panel. We\u2019re doing stuff that\u2019s positive. There was nobody that was inconvenienced. It was not, it wasn\u2019t blocking traffic. \u2026 It\u2019s All-Star Weekend, it\u2019s Saturday night and it\u2019s 7 p.m. Like, what are we talking about?\u201d Brown said. \u201cAnd the city that had an ordinance to shut us down, no matter what the owner of the house said, no matter what we tried to reason with. There was no working with (them).<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t try to work with us. They didn\u2019t try to have a conversation. They came right in and shut everything down. So the statement they put out is completely false. I stand by that. My team operated with the utmost respect to the neighbors and everybody, and they were harassed to some degree. People can make of it what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown wouldn\u2019t say why he thought his event was targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe owner seemed like he was pretty upset. He wants to file a lawsuit because it\u2019s his house. They\u2019ve done multiple events there, and there\u2019s never been an issue,\u201d Brown said. \u201cHe\u2019s done four or five events even that week, he said, and it was never an issue. So it seems like, I don\u2019t know, from the information that I\u2019ve gathered from my team, it just seemed it\u2019s only one conclusion you can make.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he believed racism was the reason, Brown didn\u2019t go into specifics.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I\u2019m gonna say is that everybody else that did something in activation, it seemed to be no issues,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Brown did not say who the owner of the house was. Property records list True 90210 LLC as the owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 The Celtics\u2019 Jaylen Brown criticized the city of Beverley Hills and its police department after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2242,355,99],"class_list":["post-471316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}