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Different standard for hip-hop concerts?

In the end, Hot 97’s Summer Jam, an annual hip-hop festival, took place Sunday despite Nassau County’s last-minute efort to ban part of it.

The question is why did Nassau County attempt to ban the outdoor portion of the concert in the frst place.

The administration of County Executive Bruce Blakeman had on Thursday – three days before the event was scheduled to take place — fled a suit to stop an outdoor concert associated with the annual event, scheduled at UBS Arena in Elmont.

Nassau County ofcials backed of the fling Friday after concert organizers said they would contribute $80,000 to cover the cost of the county Police Department’s role in policing the event.

The county’s court fling, which came more than a month after the concert was announced, cited security concerns, such as “riot-like behavior,” past “nuisances” and incendiary remarks against police at previous Summer Jams.

Did any of these problems take place in Nassau County? No.

The complaint cited incidents at a Summer Jam concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where 60 arrests were made due to riot-like behavior.

That concert took place in 2015 –eight years ago. Another instance cited took place six years ago in 2017, also in New Jersey.

Bad language? At the 2022 Summer Jam at Madison Square Garden, Roddy Ricch provoked the cops when he led a “f### the police” chant after being busted on gun charges the day before his performance.

Well, in 1969, a Hells Angel hired by the Rolling Stones for their Altamont concert fatally stabbed a Black concertgoer who was armed in front of Mick Jagger. Three other people died of accidental deaths that night and still others were injured by debris hurled by the Hells Angels.