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B'klyn pol cries 'double standard' over metal detectors at Jay-Z concerts, but not Streisand
NY Post ^ | October 13, 2012 | RICH CALDER

Posted on 10/13/2012 5:35:44 AM PDT by Pharmboy

It looks like the Barclays Center thinks Jay-Z fans are more likely to cause 99 problems than the upper-crust Barbra Streisand set.

The arena forced the crowd at the rapper’s recent concert series to herd through its new airport-style metal detectors — while fans of the legendary diva were spared the same indignity at her show on Thursday.

The security-policy switcheroo was blasted yesterday as a “double standard” that seemed racially inflammatory considering the audiences for each...

Another tweeter quipped that for the Streisand fans, Barclays security should have employed “a brisket-sniffing dog!”

Not only did the arena treat Jay-Z fans like they were visiting Brooklyn Supreme Court, they also made the crowd at an Oct. 7 Harlem Globetrotters game go through the detectors.

Arena spokesman Barry Baum said the decision to scrap the metal detectors for the Babs concert was simply to speed things up and “absolutely not” any kind of racial profiling.

The detectors have been causing long lines at events.

“We’ve only been open two weeks and are trying to make things go as smooth as possible,” Baum said.

Nevertheless, Brooklyn Councilwoman Letitia James thought the move “sends a bad message.”

“There shouldn’t be a double standard; there should be one rule of law,” she said yesterday. “If you have metal detectors for people coming to see Jay-Z, the same should apply for Barbra Streisand.

“It shouldn’t matter if you come by limousine, subway or your own two feet.”

When Barclays Center opened on Sept. 28, it became the only major arena or stadium in the New York area to employ metal detectors. ...

Reps for Jay-Z — who owns less than 1 percent of the arena and a piece of its main tenant, the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets — and Streisand did not return messages for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: profiling; race
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To: Pharmboy

Fergetta ‘bout da heat! Who’s checking the size of dem Big Gulps, fer cripes!


21 posted on 10/13/2012 5:59:51 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: expat1000

Why should they need any security? Guns are virtually illegal in NYC.


22 posted on 10/13/2012 6:04:53 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

You might have a fight if two drag queens show up wearing
the same dress.


23 posted on 10/13/2012 6:05:55 AM PDT by markoman (The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
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To: Pharmboy

It would have taken forever at a Streisand concert what with all the artificial hips and knees at that crowd.


24 posted on 10/13/2012 6:06:11 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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To: Pharmboy
Letitia James thought the move “sends a bad message."

Hey Letitia .... news flash .... nothing sends bad messages like rap lyrics.

25 posted on 10/13/2012 6:15:48 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: catfish1957

Oh my gosh! You are absolutely right! But can you see the racist politician come out and distort that fact?


26 posted on 10/13/2012 6:19:02 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: Pharmboy

At certain kinds of concerts there is a large police presence. They know from experience what to expect.
Hint - it isn’t at Beethoven concerts.


27 posted on 10/13/2012 6:33:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: Pharmboy

Oh my such an indignity!!

I say issue everyone a heater/ ammo at the door and let nature take its course why delay the inevitable.


28 posted on 10/13/2012 6:34:35 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Hey, they are the 99% (of the problems). Thanks Pharmboy.

Of course, the disturbing part is, people still go see Streisand.


29 posted on 10/13/2012 6:34:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: expat1000
I’m down with no security at any rap concert.

I'm thinking they should use the metal detectors on the way OUT.

30 posted on 10/13/2012 6:35:20 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Pharmboy; All

They have metal detectors at crap-hop concerts because the chances of Barbra Streisand, and her fans...shooting Celine Dion, and her fans, is quite low.

Crap-Hop people tend to shoot each other more than the other musical genres

Another Black Racist trying to blame “Whitey” for Black Problems...when Blacks need to start taking responsibility for their own problems


31 posted on 10/13/2012 6:36:49 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
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To: Pharmboy

I remember a similar flap a few years ago over anti-theft devices being attached to cosmetics designed for a certain race.


32 posted on 10/13/2012 6:36:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: expat1000

“I’m down with no security at any rap concert.”

Agreed. Take the metal detectors away and let the good times roll!


33 posted on 10/13/2012 6:53:02 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: expat1000

me too!


34 posted on 10/13/2012 7:06:36 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: catfish1957

Hey, I’m going to the concert tonight and I won’t set off any triggers. Still young at 57!


35 posted on 10/13/2012 7:25:56 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: SunkenCiv

“Of course, the disturbing part is, people still go see Streisand.”

Many of these same people are entertained by sending hours staring at their navel and chanting, “Ommmmmm”, or perhaps watching Cris Matthews or Rachael Maddow.

‘de gustibus non est disputandem’.

(Loosely translated as, “There is no accounting for tastes”.)


36 posted on 10/13/2012 7:29:00 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Pharmboy

They used to have metal detectors at Streisand concerts, but her fans’ hip replacements and walkers kept setting them off.


37 posted on 10/13/2012 7:34:12 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (OVERTHROW OBAMA!)
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To: Pharmboy; catfish1957; muir_redwoods

That’s what I get for jumping with a clever comment before reading the comments already posted.


38 posted on 10/13/2012 7:42:02 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (OVERTHROW OBAMA!)
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To: Tzar
Is sensitivity worth the lives of innocents?

Sure, as long as it's other people's lives, not the lives of the Councilperson or the other sensitive activists.

Barack Obama's sensitivity toward the feelings of Moslem terrorists is worth the lives of thousands, including an American ambassador.

39 posted on 10/13/2012 7:46:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am relentlessly reasonable. Mrs. Don-o said so.)
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To: Pharmboy
"brisket-sniffing dogs"

Would that be corned beef or pastrami?

Cream soda?

40 posted on 10/13/2012 8:04:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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