The Dolans' surveillance state

Creepier than it appears

It’s a cat, with pink do-dads on its claws, and a gun—posted by a scary man who works for James Dolan. This is a screenshot from an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out that you don’t want to miss.

Friday we learned from Noah Shachtman and Robert Silverman of WIRED and Pablo Torre Finds Out that Madison Square Garden is an antsy little surveillance state controlled by the never-likable little dictator James Dolan and, unfortunately, his highly competent and aggressive security team led by a guy named John Eversole, who reportedly posted the photo above.

They documented an 18-page report on the movements of an innocuous fan around the building. They documented the private texts of security freaking the hell out as some fans started chanting anti-Dolan phrases. They documented security tracking children, Charles Oakley, and many others. And they documented that, despite Dolan’s saying it was all to stop terrorism, in fact the Garden is not coordinating with law enforcement on anything like th…