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Police in riot gear withstand a barrage of bottles as fans flee a

parking lot melee at the Hot 97 Summer Jam at MetLife
Stadium in East Rutherford on Sunday.

Showgoers:
Poor info
sparked
Jam melee

Learn how they

work, when
police use them
and what
remains in flux

61 arrested at Hot 97
concert; 10 officers hurt
CHRIS JORDAN @CHRISFHJORDAN
AND DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP

The new body cameras that Shore

area police are using will keep a
watchful eye on the officers as well as
on the people they encounter, experts
say.
While Monmouth County has avoided
the kind of violent unrest that scarred Ferguson, Missouri, and later Baltimore, the
Howell, Middletown and Wall police departments each received five body cameras under a
new pilot program, acting County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.
These weatherproof cameras are created by Texasbased police equipment manufacturer WatchGuard
Video. Dozens of camera models are cropping up as law
enforcement agencies and activists look to record police-citizen interactions.
I really hope that the program gives us good, positive data, Gramiccioni told the Asbury Park Press.
The pilot program raises sundry questions about using the technology. Heres what to know so far about

A day after 61 concertgoers were arrested and 10

state troopers injured at the Hot 97 Summer Jam concert at MetLife Stadium, some concertgoers questioned whether a lack of information helped lead to the
melee in the parking lot.
The clashes, which included concertgoers throwing
bottles at police and police lobbing tear gas in response,
began after the tickets were sold out early Sunday evening, according to Emmis New York, owners of Hot 97
radio station and host of the hip-hop and R&B concert.
A majority of arrests occurred because of concertgoers climbing fences and trying to push past security
at the East Rutherford stadiums entrance gate, said
Sgt. Jeff Flynn, spokesman for the New Jersey State
Police.
Charges for those arrested ranged from soliciting
without a permit and trespassing to possession of a
weapon and assault. The majority of charges were for
disorderly behavior. The crowd ultimately dispersed
about 10 p.m., three hours after the disturbance began.
A small group of highly disruptive people ruined
this concert for many others. They created a danger to
ticketholders, stadium employees and troopers on the
scene. Our troopers took the appropriate steps to restore order to what was a brief and volatile situation,

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See MELEE, Page 5A

STEPH SOLIS @STEPHMSOLIS

Christie ex-aide fined $500 in ethics violation over email

BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

LEADERSHIP TEST FOR GOVERNOR

TRENTON A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie violated conflict of interest laws by sharing unauthorized
information with her husband, a top executive for the
company developing the controversial Pinelands pipeline, a state ethics panel has ruled.
Christina Genovese Renna agreed to a $500 fine af-

State Supreme Court to rule on cuts in pension payments. 7A

ter acknowledging the contents of some of the emails

she sent to her family members contained information
that was not generally available to members of the public, according to the new consent order from the New

Jersey Ethics Commission.

But Genovese Renna on Monday said hers is a case
of when an otherwise innocent conversation between
spouses turns one of them into an inadvertent rulebreaker.
The ethics panel didnt cite any specific discussions
See ETHICS, Page 4A

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