This from Newsday:
A record company executive who police said failed to control a crowd of 3,000 at Roosevelt Field mall during a planned Justin Bieber album signing pleaded not guilty to felony assault charges Saturday.
Nassau police said James A. Roppo’s failure to send out a Twitter message to disperse the hordes resulted in an officer and others receiving minor injuries.
Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child, obstruction of governmental administration, reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance.
Police said that Roppo, senior vice president for sales for Island Def Jam Records, was at the mall Friday and hindered crowd control by not cooperating when police requested that he send a Twitter message asking the crowd to leave.
The cops say think a simple Twitter message would have calmed the crowd and they all would have left peacefully. –Yeah, Right. On what planet?
You’ve got 3000 teenyboppers with their hormones in full rage who scream and cry at the sight of this latest heartthrob and they’re going to care what somebody says on Twitter?
The first thing any of those girls is going to do, assuming for the moment that they notice a new tweet, is say it’s a fake.
