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5-Officer Wedges

Needed To Diffuse

Problems In Crowds

City Couldn’t Handle Trouble

At OH-Fest, Chief, Mayor Find

A photo from OH-Fest 2017 gives a sense of the size of the crowd Oneonta police must deal with. Here, The Throwback Time Machine warms up for Jesse McCartney.  This year, concerns about protests caused Mayor Herzig to revoke the Neahwa Park permit for Rapper Sean Kingston.   (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal

ONEONTA – If one person gets hurt in the OH-Fest crowd, it takes five people, including law enforcement and EMTs, to reach them, according to City Police Chief Doug Brenner.

“We form a wedge to move through the crowd,” he said. “But if there’s 10 people fighting, we’re quickly overwhelmed.”

Such concerns were among the reasons Mayor Gary Herzig revoked SUNY Oneonta’s permit to hold this year’s OH-Fest concert by Rapper Sean Kingston.  Know Violence Here, a student group, had spoke of protesting after learning he had been accused of a gang rape in 2010.

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