Outraged Professional Bull Riders (PBR) chief Sean Gleason came within a minute of cancelling an event when the managers of Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte refused to allow a U.S. Border Patrol Color Guard to enter their building Friday night.
A still-seething Gleason, chief executive officer of PBR, wrote about the Charlotte standoff on his Facebook page.
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Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, were supposed to serve as Color Guard and display the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem.