Charles Oakley, filed court papers last week seeking to add Knicks Governor James Dolan to the assault and battery lawsuit he filed three years ago against Madison Square Garden Company for his forcible removal from the arena during a match. of February 2017.
The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan reported Wednesday that Oakley, who played for New York from 1988 to 1998, now claims in court documents that Dolan “ordered” an assault to remove him from MSG:
“Defendant Dolan … employs security guards who assaulted plaintiff, worked in concert with, aided and encouraged to carry out the assault by conspiring with security personnel to use unreasonable force in expelling plaintiff from the garden . [Dolan was] ordering the use of unreasonable force, permitting the use of unreasonable force by failing to exercise his control over security personnel to prevent the assault and subsequently approving, ratifying and adopting the assault. “
Douglas Wigdor, Oakley’s attorney, told Athletic the changes come after they received additional video evidence “which allowed us to zoom in on Dolan.” They claim the footage showed the Knicks governor conferring with a security guard just before approaching to help escort Oakley.
Oakley argues that in court the filing of the video makes it “obvious that the security team acted at all times with the intention of forcing Mr. Oakley out of Garden with unreasonable force.”