Kanye West escorted from Skechers office, footwear brand says - Al Jazeera English

Rapper accused of ‘unauthorised filming’ aft unannounced sojourn to company’s Los Angeles office.

Ye, the rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West, has been escorted from Skechers’s firm bureau successful Los Angeles aft showing up unannounced and uninvited, according to the footwear company.

Two institution executives removed Ye and a fig of individuals aft the rapper engaged successful “unauthorised filming” astatine the office, the institution said successful a connection connected Wednesday, section time.

Skechers, the world’s third-largest footwear marque by revenue, said it had nary volition of moving with Ye and did not tolerate anti-Semitism and different hatred code amid contention implicit the rapper’s inflammatory remarks astir Jewish people.

“We condemn his caller divisive remarks and bash not tolerate antisemitism oregon immoderate different signifier of hatred speech,” the institution said. “The institution would similar to again accent that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers firm offices.”

The incidental comes aft Adidas connected Tuesday ended its concern with Ye implicit “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous” remarks astir Jewish people, contempt the rapper claiming the sportswear institution could not driblet him for making anti-Semantic comments.

The German sportswear elephantine scrapped its partnership, which was worthy an estimated $1.5bn, aft the rapper was suspended from Twitter and Instagram earlier this period for making anti-Semitic posts. The illness of the woody stripped Ye of his billionaire status, according to Forbes, reducing his nett worthy to $400m.

Clothing marque Gap has besides announced it volition region the rapper’s Yeezy Gap enactment of merchandise from its stores and unopen down YeezyGap.com, portion Footlocker has pulled Yeezy sneakers from its shelves.