In brief: Report: Tear gas used outside concert

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – New Jersey State Police blocking gates outside a concert Sunday night at MetLife Stadium had bottles thrown at them by angry people in the crowd, and they used tear gas to try to disperse them, according to media reports.

Crowds at the Hot 97 Summer Jam concert became upset when the gates were closed and blocked off by police in riot gear, the Asbury Park Press reported. An armored state police vehicle began blasting a piercing loud noise to try to disperse the crowd, and police later deployed tear gas, the newspaper reported.

Additional troops were sent for “crowd control” and arrests were made, a police spokesman, Sgt. Gregory Williams, told the Associated Press.

The concert was hosted by a New York radio station and headlined by Kendrick Lamar and Chris Brown.

It wasn’t immediately clear if there were any injuries.

Black Union soldier gets military funeral

RENO, Nev. – A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he died in Nevada.

Nevada historians said they decided to hold a military funeral for Pvt. Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry because it’s unlikely he received any recognition after his death in 1917 in Dayton, about 40 miles south of Reno.

Carnal was long forgotten until modern researchers discovered he belonged to the United States Colored Troops and was severely wounded in the Battle of Honey Springs on July 17, 1863, in what is now Oklahoma. He was about 73 when he died; no obituary on him has surfaced.

More than 200 people, many of them wearing Civil War-era attire, paid tribute to Carnal and other unsung veterans at the Dayton Cemetery during the ceremony staged by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, the Historical Society of Dayton Valley and several other groups.

The Virginia-born Carnal joined the Union Army in Kansas in March 1863, shortly after running away from his slave master in Missouri. He was about 19 at the time.

Christopher Price, director of the Honey Springs Battlefield, said Carnal’s brigade played a major role in the battle, a turning point for the Union in the campaign west of the Mississippi. The battle’s soldiers were mostly of African-American and American-Indian ancestry.