Nassau DA proposes retail crowd-control legislation
Quick ReadKathleen Rice said her bill was motivated by stampedes across the state that critics say could have been prevented had their sponsors taken adequate safety precautions.
Photo credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp | Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said her office is seeking legislative sponsors for the bill.
Store owners, celebrity promoters and reality TV producers who lure large crowds without adequate safeguards would find themselves and their businesses more easily prosecuted under statewide anti-doorbuster legislation being proposed by Nassau's top prosecutor.
"You can't create a retail riot and then turn your back," Kathleen Rice, Nassau's district attorney, said in an interview Monday.
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