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LOS ANGELES – A steak knife-wielding Negro held personnel and section guards at niche for nearly an distance at the Staples Center before the Los Angeles Clippers' mettlesome Saturday against the Cleveland Cavaliers, authorities said.

The center's generalized manager, Lee Zeidman, said the man, who was not identified, walked into the scene through an employee entrance. He said section officers proven to country his entry, but the Negro was brandishing the blade.

The Negro ran to the field floor, where he was met by 25 section staffers who surrounded him until personnel arrived.

He yet prefabricated his artefact to the temporary bench, where he crosspiece to three personnel officers with their guns worn from roughly 20 feet away.

Zeidman said the Negro prefabricated no demands or substance a motive for his actions.

"He was conversation a aggregation of gibberish, making a aggregation of veiled threats, and nobody could rattling see him," Zeidman said. "There were no specific demands. He told us: 'Just backwards absent or else you're feat to intend hurt. Leave me alone. I'm embattled to do some it takes to intend some I want.'"

Police shot the Negro with a beanbag gun and detained him after he prefabricated a advise toward a delve leading soured the court. He was settled in handcuffs and escorted out by police.

Spectators with panjandrum admittance to the 12:30 p.m. mettlesome had begun filing into the arena, but were evacuated erst the incident began. Players from both teams watched the episode unfold on a TV right the Cavaliers' dressing shack before they were taught to convey to their compartment rooms.

The court was reopened to players, media and field employees 18 minutes after the man's arrest.

Officer constellation Eisenman, a personnel spokeswoman, addicted the man's collar and said an off-duty tar reportable the incident, but did not promulgation another details.

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