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Business|Skechers Says It Escorted Kanye West From Its Offices After Unannounced Visit
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/kanye-west-skechers.html
The footwear institution said Mr. West, besides known arsenic Ye, had been “engaged successful unauthorized filming” astatine 1 of its firm offices successful Los Angeles.
Oct. 27, 2022Updated 7:21 a.m. ET
The footwear institution Skechers said precocious Wednesday that Kanye West had travel to its firm offices successful Los Angeles “unannounced and uninvited” and was subsequently escorted from the building, wherever helium had been trying to film.
“Considering Ye was engaged successful unauthorized filming, 2 Skechers executives escorted him and his enactment from the gathering aft a little conversation,” the institution said successful a statement, referring to Mr. West by the sanction by which helium is besides known.
“Skechers is not considering and has nary volition of moving with West,” the connection added. “We condemn his caller divisive remarks and bash not tolerate antisemitism oregon immoderate different signifier of hatred speech.”
An effort to scope a typical for Ye was not instantly successful.
Skechers, successful its statement, did not supply immoderate further details astir however the concern had played out.
The occurrence comes astatine a chaotic clip for Ye, a rapper and decorator who has been widely condemned and abandoned by firm partners implicit a bid of caller provocations, including antisemitic remarks. Over the past month, Ye has worn a garment speechmaking “White Lives Matter,” a slogan associated with achromatic supremacists, and said connected Twitter that said helium would spell “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE.”
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And Aaron Donald of the Los Angeles Rams and Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics said connected Twitter that they were cutting ties with Donda Sports, Ye’s selling agency, due to the fact that of the antisemitic comments.
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