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WATCH: Body Camera Footage Released of Raptors President Masai Ujiri’s Infamous Altercation With Oracle Arena Security After Winning the NBA Championship

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After the Toronto Raptors won their first NBA Championship last year, Raptors President Masai Ujiri was infamously not allowed on the court for post-game celebration by despite showing ID to Oracle Arena security which resulted in an altercation. In 2019, here’s how it was described via NBC Sports Bay Area,

“The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office admitted that Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri showed his NBA identification before an alleged altercation with a sheriff’s deputy last week at Oracle Arena.

The sheriff’s office told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that Ujiri informed the deputy he was the Raptors’ president and then presented the ID, but he did not have the necessary credentials to get onto the court after his team beat the Warriors to clinch its first championship in Game 6 of the NBA Finals last Thursday.

Officials allege that Ujiri pushed and struck the deputy in the face after he refused to let the executive on the court, and an attorney hired to represent the deputy told multiple outlets earlier this week that his client has a concussion and a “serious jaw injury.”

Well, body camera footage of the incident has now emerged from Ujiri’s legal team which seems to paint a different picture.

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That sure looks like Ujiri pulling out his credential as he tried to enter the court and the officer shoving him back not once, but twice, before Ujiri retaliated.

Here’s another angle:

Questions initially arose as to whether race played a role in the altercation and if a white team president would have been treated in a similar fashion.

Attorneys representing Ujiri claim that the officer, Alan Strickland, was the aggressor according to KTVU FOX 2, and that certainly seems like the case.

No criminal charges have been filed, but the douchebag officer filed a lawsuit against Ujiri claiming that he incurred injuries that  “caused and continue to cause great mental, physical, emotional and psychological pain and suffering.” 

Good luck, Strickland.

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