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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A security guard's quick reaction stopped an animal rights protester dressed as a referee running onto the court at the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff game against the Memphis Grizzlies in Minneapolis Saturday night.
Direct Action Everywhere, the group behind the activist campaign, says Sasha Zemmel, of St. Louis, Missouri, was taking off a jacket to unveil her referee outfit as she leaped over courtside seats of Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and his wife, Becky. A nearby security guard quickly noticed and tackled her as she entered the court.
The animal rights activist group has been protesting a mass killing of chickens at Rembrandt Enterprises, a factory egg farm in Iowa owned by Taylor. The chickens died as a result of bird flu.