$400 MILLION FROM REACHING NORTH
CAROLINA.
KENNY: TONIGHT 12 INVESTIGATES A
NEW YEARS EVE CONCERT AT THE
GREENSBORO COLISEUM.
EARLIER THIS WEEK WE TOLD YOU
ABOUT THE SIX OVERDOSE PATIENTS
THAT WERE RUSHED TO THE
HOSPITAL AND THE ONE MAN FOUND
DEAD AFTER THE BASENECTAR
CONCERT.
TALITHA: TONIGHT, WE ARE HEARING
FROM AN EMT WHO WORKED THE
TRIAGE ROOMS INSIDE THE
COLISEUM.
OUR DAVONTE MCKENITH
INVESTIGATES FROM GREENSBORO.
REPORTER: THE MENU ARE ABOUT TO
LISTEN TO WORKS FOR AN EMS
AGENCY HERE.
HE WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
HE WORKED ON NEW YEAR’S EVE.
FOR A FEDERAL COMPANY THAT
PROVIDES SERVICES FOR
LARGE-SCALE EVENT.
HE SAID IT IS SOMETHING HE HAS
NEVER SEEN.
EVEN THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT
REQUIRED HELP.
FANS FROM ALL OVER PACKED THE
GREENSBORO COLISEUM NEW YEAR’S
EVE.
22,000 TO BE EXACT, MAKING THE
BASSNECTAR CONCERT THE THIRD
LARGEST EVENT IN VENUE HISTORY.
WHAT ELSE WAS LARGE?
THE AMOUNT OF DRUG OVERDOSES
INSIDE.
>> TO 11:00 TO 1:00, IT BROKE
LOOSE.
THAT IS WHEN WE HAD THE MOST
PATIENTS.
THERE WAS MASS CONTROLLED CHAOS.
REPORTER: THE EMT ADMITS
PARADOCS WAS BRIEFED ON THE TYPE
OF CROWDS THAT USUALLY FOLLOW
BASSNECTAR.
BUT HE DOESN’T THINK THE CITY
WAS WELL PREPARED.
HE EVEN SAYS HE TRIED TO
CONFRONT POLICE THAT NIGHT.
>> I ASKED TO THE POLICE, WHY
WEREN’T THEY ARRESTING PEOPLE?
IT WAS OBVIOUS WHEN YOU WENT
INTO THE AUDITORIUM, YOU COULD
SMELL MARIJUANA TIGHT.LIPPED.
-- YOU COULD SEE PEOPLE SNORTING
THINGS.
THEY BASICALLY SAID, NOT ENOUGH
OF US COMPARED TO THEM.
REPORTER: THE CITY OF
GREENSBORO, THE MAYOR, AND
GREENSBORO POLICE, STILL
TIGHTLIPPED.
NOT WILLING TO DO INTERVIEWS.
THE EMT SAYS OUT OF THE 200
PPATIENTS IN THE TRIAGE ROOMS,
98% WERE OVERDOSE PATIENTS.
>> THESE GUYS WERE ON
HALLUCINOGENS.
THEY WERE ON MUSHROOMS, COKE,
MOLLY, LSD, ECSTASY, MARIJUANA
ON TOP OF IT.
SO IT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN
GIVE A MEDICATION AND BRING THEM
OUT OF LIKE OPIOIDS.
REPORTER: THE MEDIC ADMITS THERE
WAS A DECENT SIZE TREATMENT ROOM
AT THE COLISEUM.
ONCE A PATIENT WAS ADMITTED,
THEY WERE RESTRAINED, GIVEN I.V.
FLUIDS AND MEDICATION.
THEY TYPICALLY HAD A THREE HOUR
STAY.
MANY GREENSBORO POLICE OFFICERS
WHO WORKED THE EVENT SAY THEY’RE
STILL WONDERING WHY THE CI
ALLOWED THIS.
FOR THIS EMT, HE IS CONCERNED,
TOO.
>> THE COMMUNITY OF GREENSBORO
SHOULD DO A LOT MORE OR A LOT
BETTER AT VETTING PEOPLE WHO ARE
COMING TO THE COLISEUM.
REPORTER: WE KNOW MANY FANS
FULLY SUPPORT BASE NECTAR
PERFORMING AT THE COLISEUM ON
NEW YEAR’S EVE.
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR A
COMMENT FROM THE DJ AND HIS
STAFF.
THE EMT YOU HEARD FROM SAYS HE
WAS THANKED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE
DESPITE THE OVERDOSES SHE HAD TO
DEAL WITH.
IN GREENSBORO, DAVONTE MCKENITH,
WXII 12 NEWS.
TALITHA: THIS IS PART TWO OF
DAVONTE MCKENITH’S INVESTIGATION
INTO WHAT HAPPENED AT THE
CONCERT ON NEW YEAR’S EVE.
YOU CAN WATCH PART ONE, WHICH
FOCUSES ON PUBLIC SAFETY
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