Sticky situation! Animal rights activist SUPERGLUES her hand to the court during NBA game to protest billionaire Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor’s factory farm ‘suffocating 5 million hens during bird flu scare’
- An animal-rights activist identified as Alicia Santurio stormed the court during Tuesday’s postseason play-in game between the Timberwolves and Clippers
- Santurio attempted to glue her hand to the hardwood before being ejected
- A sticky handprint remained after Santurio was unpeeled from the court
- TNT cameras turned away during Santurio’s demonstration, which was aimed at raising awareness of Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor’s factory farms in Iowa
- The protest caused a brief delay, but continued shortly after. Santurio was not arrested, according to authorities, but she was been banned from Target Center
- Santurio wore a t-shirt reading: ‘GLEN TAYLOR ROASTS ANIMALS ALIVE.’
- Rembrandt Enterprises, an Iowa factory egg farm owned by Taylor, allegedly killed 5.3 million chickens following a recent avian influenza outbreak
- To kill the hens, Taylor’s farm allegedly did a ventilation shutdown, which uses a ‘combination of heat, steam and/or carbon dioxide gas’ to suffocate the birds
The NBA postseason has its first star: Glue Girl.
An animal-rights activist identified as Alicia Santurio stormed the court during Tuesday’s postseason play-in game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and visiting Los Angeles Clippers before attempting to glue her hand to the hardwood.
The protest caused a brief delay, but the game resumed shortly thereafter. Santurio was not arrested, according to authorities, but she has been banned from the Target Center in Minneapolis for a year, and could be prosecuted if she tries to re-enter.
‘I was just told by security that she apparently had glued herself to the floor and she refused to lift her wrist up,’ TNT’s Allie LaForce said during the second quarter of the Timberwolves win in Minneapolis on Tuesday night. ‘They were trying to pull her off and she was resisting trying to keep her wrist glued to the floor.’
An animal-rights activist identified as Alicia Santurio stormed the court during Tuesday’s postseason play-in game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and visiting Los Angeles Clippers before attempting to glue her hand to the hardwood
Santurio’s t-shirt read: ‘GLEN TAYLOR ROASTS ANIMALS ALIVE.’ Glen Taylor is pictured (right)
TNT cameras turned away during Santurio’s demonstration, which was aimed at raising awareness of Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor’s factory farms in Iowa. Fortunately onlookers were recording and shared the footage with Santurio’s group, Direct Action Everywhere
Santurio raises her trespass notice after being ejected on Tuesday. She was not arrested
Rembrandt Enterprises, an Iowa factory egg farm (pictured) owned by Taylor, allegedly killed 5.3 million chickens following a recent avian influenza outbreak, according to the animal rights group, Direct Action Everywhere. To kill the chickens, Taylor’s farm allegedly used a process known as ventilation shutdown, which uses a ‘combination of heat, steam and/or carbon dioxide gas,’ to suffocate the birds, according to the group
A sticky handprint remained after Santurio was unpeeled from the court.
TNT cameras turned away during Santurio’s demonstration, which was aimed at raising awareness of Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor’s factory farms in Iowa.
Santurio’s t-shirt read: ‘GLEN TAYLOR ROASTS ANIMALS ALIVE.’
Rembrandt Enterprises, an Iowa factory egg farm owned by Taylor, allegedly killed 5.3 million chickens following a recent avian influenza outbreak, according to the animal rights group, Direct Action Everywhere. To kill the chickens, Taylor’s farm allegedly used a process known as ventilation shutdown, which uses a ‘combination of heat, steam and/or carbon dioxide gas,’ to suffocate the birds, according to the group.
A sticky handprint remained after Santurio was unpeeled from the court
‘We were doing it to raise awareness about an investigation that we just released today about Rembrandt Farms,’ Santurio said in a social media video after her ejection. ‘They had another outbreak of avian influenza… So we found out there was an outbreak, we found the farm and investigators went and documented how they were killing the chickens. Turns out they were using VSD… ventilation shutdown, where they basically close off the barn, pump a bunch of heat into the barn and are basically roasting the chickens alive.’
Spokespeople for Rembrandt and the Timberwolves did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com for comment.
Rembrandt previously had an avian flu outbreak in 2015, which resulted in 2 million egg-laying hens being killed at Minnesota farms, the company acknowledged at the time.
The Timberwolves won, 109-104, to qualify for the playoffs and a first-round matchup with the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies.
The Clippers will now move on to face the winner of Wednesday’s play-in game between the San Antonio Spurs and New Orleans Pelicans on Friday with a potential postseason berth on the line.
A shot of Santurio’s trespass notice, which she got after storming the court in Minneapolis
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