A poorly planned downtown rap concert descended into chaos this week, and afterward fingers were pointed in every direction but the right one.
Fortunately, no one was seriously injured Tuesday night at the South Street Seaport. The magazine Paper had promoted and advertised a free performance by a new rap luminary.
Promoters expected about 4,000 to attend, but nearly 25,000 showed up. Then the star attraction was late, the crowd grew unruly and presently bottles and chairs were flying through the air.
Happily, the show was canceled — and then the blame game began:
* The performer blamed the cops.
* The NYPD blamed the organizers.
* The organizers said: “Not us!”
So whose fault was it?
How about the bottle-chucking, chair-tossing, attention-span-deficient slugs who were in the center of all the trouble?
In the end, there were only two arrests. And there’s a clue as to why this sort of maladjusted misbehavior is so common.
Nobody pays a price for misbehaving.
Or is even called out for it.