A New York Cop Got Injured at a Boxing Match. Now Madison Square Garden Is Banning His Lawyer
A New York Cop Got Injured at a Boxing Match. Now Madison Square Garden Is Banning His Lawyer
一名纽约警察在拳击比赛中受伤，麦迪逊广场花园现已禁止其律师入场
His client is a New York cop who was injured during a private security gig at Madison Square Garden. He sued the Garden on behalf of the cop. Now John Scola, a lawyer well known for representing local police officers, is banned from the high-profile arena and several others owned by the famously controlling James Dolan.
他的当事人是一名纽约警察，在麦迪逊广场花园（MSG）从事私人安保工作时受伤。他代表这名警察起诉了该场馆。如今，以代理当地警官而闻名的律师约翰·斯科拉（John Scola）被禁止进入这座备受瞩目的竞技场，以及由以控制欲著称的詹姆斯·多兰（James Dolan）所拥有的其他几处场馆。
For years, Dolan openly excluded entire law firms from his venues if a single attorney was in any sort of legal dispute with the Garden; those bans would then be enforced by Dolan’s increasingly sophisticated facial recognition system. What wasn’t entirely clear was whether Madison Square Garden was continuing to grow its legal blacklist. A letter to Scola, dated April 30 and reviewed by WIRED, suggested this practice continues. “Any tickets to MSG Venues,” the letter reads, “are hereby revoked.”
多年来，只要有律师与麦迪逊广场花园发生任何法律纠纷，多兰就会公开将该律师所在的整个律师事务所拒之门外；这些禁令随后会通过多兰日益先进的人脸识别系统来执行。此前尚不完全清楚麦迪逊广场花园是否仍在扩大其法律黑名单。一份日期为4月30日并经《连线》（WIRED）审阅的致斯科拉的信函表明，这种做法仍在继续。信中写道：“任何前往MSG场馆的门票，现均予以撤销。”
The ban also highlights the fissures in the multilayered relationship between New York City’s public servants and its most iconic arena. As WIRED reported last month, MSG security functionally acted as a second, unsanctioned surveillance force in midtown Manhattan—without the New York Police Department’s formal permission. (NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani called this expansion beyond the Garden’s walls “deeply troubling,” and promised further investigation.)
这项禁令也凸显了纽约市公职人员与其最具标志性的竞技场之间多层面关系中的裂痕。正如《连线》上个月报道的那样，MSG安保部门在未经纽约警察局正式许可的情况下，实际上充当了曼哈顿中城的第二支未经授权的监视力量。（纽约市议员佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）称这种超出场馆围墙的扩张“令人深感不安”，并承诺进行进一步调查。）
Dolan says that the biometric surveillance system is in place to stop dangerous actors from entering his properties—“if you’re a terrorist, [the list] will say that’s a terrorist,” he once told the local Fox affiliate—but the NYPD hasn’t shared facial recognition or any other kind of data with the Garden. The Garden did, however, add a New York police officer’s photo to the many, many others in its facial recognition database, as WIRED reported. “New Yorkers should be able to go to a game or a concert without their rights being violated,” New York attorney general Letitia James told the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast in a statement. “My office is closely reviewing the latest reporting on Madison Square Garden surveillance tactics.”
多兰表示，生物识别监控系统的存在是为了阻止危险分子进入他的物业——他曾告诉当地福克斯附属电视台：“如果你是恐怖分子，（名单）就会显示那是恐怖分子”——但纽约警察局并未与该场馆共享人脸识别或任何其他类型的数据。然而，正如《连线》所报道的那样，该场馆确实将一名纽约警察的照片添加到了其人脸识别数据库中成千上万的其他照片里。纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（Letitia James）在接受《Pablo Torre Finds Out》播客采访时发表声明称：“纽约人应该能够去观看比赛或音乐会，而不必担心自己的权利受到侵犯。我的办公室正在密切审查有关麦迪逊广场花园监控策略的最新报道。”
On the other hand, the Garden does hire NYPD officers, through the city’s paid detail program, to augment its own security forces. That’s what happened in February of 2025, when a lightweight boxing match was being held at MSG’s then-named Hulu Theater. The audience was likely to be large and “requir[e] active crowd control,” according to the lawsuit, so the Garden brass figured they’d need eight off-duty cops to help. “Despite that determination,” the suit claims, “only two officers were actually present.” One of them was seven-year NYPD veteran John Przybyszewski.
另一方面，该场馆确实通过纽约市的“带薪执勤计划”（paid detail program）聘请纽约警察局警官来加强其自身的安保力量。2025年2月，当一场轻量级拳击比赛在MSG当时名为Hulu剧院的场馆举行时，情况就是如此。据诉讼称，观众人数可能很多，且“需要积极的人群控制”，因此场馆高层认为需要八名下班警察协助。诉讼称：“尽管做出了这一决定，但实际上只有两名警官在场。”其中一人是拥有七年警龄的纽约警察局老兵约翰·普日贝谢夫斯基（John Przybyszewski）。
At some point, an incident erupted near ringside. The rapper Lil Tjay seemed to spit in the face of a Garden security staffer who appeared to be trying to keep him from getting closer to the ring. Videos from the night show a chaotic scene. Lil Tjay’s bodyguards and entourage joined in the scuffle. According to the lawsuit, Przybyszewski claims he was knocked to the ground, pinned beneath several people.
比赛期间，拳台附近爆发了一起冲突。说唱歌手Lil Tjay似乎向一名MSG安保人员脸上吐了口水，该安保人员当时似乎正试图阻止他靠近拳台。当晚的视频显示现场一片混乱。Lil Tjay的保镖和随行人员也加入了混战。据诉讼称，普日贝谢夫斯基声称自己被撞倒在地，并被几个人压在身下。
Przybyszewski claims that when he got up, he was “in severe pain,” and was sent to the hospital in an ambulance. According to the lawsuit, “diagnostic imaging revealed significant cervical and lumbar spine injuries,” some of them “permanent.”
普日贝谢夫斯基声称，当他站起来时，“感到剧烈疼痛”，随后被救护车送往医院。据诉讼称，“影像诊断显示其颈椎和腰椎受到严重损伤”，其中一些损伤是“永久性的”。
Przybyszewski blamed both the rapper and Garden officials. He sued Lil Tjay and Madison Square Garden. For a lawyer, he tapped Scola, who frequently represents NYPD officers in disputes with their bosses and the city. Scola filed his suit in February of this year. “Defendants made conscious operational decisions that placed Plaintiff directly in harm’s way. Those decisions caused his injuries,” the lawsuit claims.
普日贝谢夫斯基指责了该说唱歌手和场馆官员。他起诉了Lil Tjay和麦迪逊广场花园。他聘请了斯科拉作为律师，斯科拉经常代表纽约警察局警官处理他们与上司及市政府之间的纠纷。斯科拉于今年2月提起了诉讼。诉讼称：“被告做出了有意识的运营决策，将原告直接置于危险之中。这些决定导致了他的受伤。”
Madison Square Garden did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment for this story. A lawyer who has represented Lil Tjay also did not respond to a request for comment.
麦迪逊广场花园没有回应《连线》就此事的置评请求。曾代表Lil Tjay的一名律师也没有回应置评请求。
Five weeks after Scola sued Madison Square Garden on behalf of his police officer client, the Garden announced a “Thank You, NYPD” event, featuring Cyndi Lauper and John Fogerty. The rapper Fat Joe and the comedian Tracy Morgan, both courtside fixtures at New York Knicks home games at the Garden, also performed.
在斯科拉代表其警察当事人起诉麦迪逊广场花园五周后，该场馆宣布举办一场“感谢纽约警察局”活动，由辛迪·劳帕（Cyndi Lauper）和约翰·福格蒂（John Fogerty）领衔。说唱歌手Fat Joe和喜剧演员特雷西·摩根（Tracy Morgan）也参与了表演，他们都是纽约尼克斯队在MSG主场比赛时的常客。
According to his lawyer, Przybyszewski would like to go back to “paid detail” work, maybe even at the Garden. He liked some of the guys he worked with. And as a cop in Staten Island, he could use the extra money.
据其律师称，普日贝谢夫斯基希望重返“带薪执勤”工作，甚至可能愿意回到MSG。他很喜欢与他共事过的一些同事。而且作为一名史泰登岛的警察，他确实需要这笔额外的收入。
Scola, for his part, says he’s not mad about currently being banned from MSG. He’s originally from the Philadelphia area, and so wasn’t planning on seeing the New York Knicks play in the Garden during the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals. “It’s a little bit petty,” Scola says of the ban. “But I’m here to represent my client, and if representing my client means I can’t go to Madison Square Garden until they pay us money or we win in trial—well then, so be it.”
至于斯科拉本人，他表示并不介意目前被禁止进入MSG。他来自费城地区，因此原本也没打算在NBA东部决赛期间去MSG观看纽约尼克斯队的比赛。“这有点小家子气，”斯科拉在谈到禁令时说。“但我在这里是为了代表我的当事人，如果代表我的当事人意味着在他们赔钱给我们或者我们在审判中获胜之前我不能去麦迪逊广场花园——好吧，那就这样吧。”