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Some times folks need to shut the f@ck up.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says whoever taped Donald Sterling’s comments should be ‘sent to prison’
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fully supports Adam Silver’s lifetime ban of Clippers owner Donald Sterling for making racist comments to his girlfriend, but he says he also wants whoever is responsible for taping the comments “sent to prison.â€
Writing in a strongly worded editorial piece for Time magazine, Abdul-Jabbar spoke out against the methods used to obtain evidence.
“Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media?†Abdul-Jabbar wrote in Time. “Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way?â€
As the Daily News’ legal analyst, New York lawyer Tom Harvey, has pointed out this week, the recording released by TMZ last weekend in which Sterling answers questions by his girlfriend in blatantly racist terms, was probably illegally recorded, especially if the tape was made in California, a state in which both parties must know they are being recorded.
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