Eight people dead and multiple injured at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival in Houston

By artappraiser on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 3:28am |

@ Twitter Events, developing news, 20 minutes ago

Houston police confirm at least eight people have been killed and multiple injured at Astroworld festival in Houston, a sold-out event run by rapper Travis Scott. At least 23 have been transported to the hospital and over 300 were treated throughout the day.

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https://twitter.com/i/events/1456869257048780807

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cops and rapper, etc.

You can’t tell me Travis Scott didn’t see this kid getting resuscitated while he was up there doing the robot #ASTROWORLDFest pic.twitter.com/cjqsiK29BS
— damn (@DexterL07617514) November 6, 2021

I don't usually do celebrity gossip but..

Travis Scott sucks.
That he kept performing while his fans were dying shouldn't be a surprise.

Arianna Grande this man is not. https://t.co/QWbYfi1suW
— Naninizhoni (@naninizhoni) November 6, 2021

The girl shouting please #Stop the show" and the staff & organizer did nothing.
This shit is heartbreaking #AstroWorld

If the show was stopped sooner, how many lives could've been saved? #astroworldfestival #Travis #Houston #Texas #AstroWorldFest #panic #TravisScott #KHOU11 pic.twitter.com/VGZWJaGmKu
— Chaudhary Parvez (@ChaudharyParvez) November 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 1:54pm

Videos show people dancing on top of the emergency vehicles while they were trying to get unconscious people out of the crowd at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. https://t.co/VSyQc9toYr
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 1:59pm

Where were those Travis-community social workers making anarchy work?

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 2:09pm

Guns are no good.

by Orion on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 4:08pm

There was no gun violence involved here, though.

Unless you get into promotion of violence and lawlessness by rap culture, which I unashamedly do!

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 4:14pm

Oh damn, it was a stampede. I just assumed it was a shooting. I haven't listened to rap/hip-hop in a very long time.

by Orion on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 5:02pm

a related interesting "trending" is happening: Satanic Panic

Can we skip the satanic panic and just get to a police investigation? https://t.co/0mKEYaoRFM
— Weaponized Nerd Rage (@WeaponizedRage) November 8, 2021

The news of deaths at the Astroworld Festival is tragic. I sure hope this leads to calls for improved safety and security at venues to prevent similar tragedies and doesn't instead inspire a mind-melting satanic panic that helps nobody.

And now to check my Twitter feed.
— Travis View (@travis_view) November 8, 2021

I so desperately wish that our education curriculum included pop culture history so that we didn’t have to reinvent the satanic panic every few years https://t.co/olfdNyudzh
— (@hibiscuslacroix) November 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/08/2021 - 4:11pm

things are coming out that show HE IS Satan in a way (and he's already starting to get his ass sued up the kazoo-him, not his promoter - and that is how we deal with Satanic rites in the 21st century and that is why he suddenly is apologizing much more profusely):

Travis Scott was reportedly warned about the crowd at his Astroworld festival moment before fans were killed and injured during a fatal crowd surge.https://t.co/r1S8pu1EOy
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

Eight people, one as young as 14, died and dozens more were injured after fans were crushed when the crowd surged towards the stage.

According to The New York Post, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner visited the rapper in his trailer to ‘voice his concerns’ about the crowd.
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

The publication claims that the police chief, who knows the rapper personally, had spoken to the Sicko Mode hitmaker about ‘very devoted fans’ that had amassed for the Friday show at NRG Park. pic.twitter.com/BkqB2oyoAY
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

The report comes after footage and social media posts trawled by the Houston Chronicle indicated people began collapsing by 9.38pm, nearly 40 minutes after Scott came onstage.
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

Scott’s promoter quickly agreed to stop the show yet the 30-year-old rapper, real name Jacques Berman Webster II, appeared to keep playing till the end of his 75-minute set, at 10.15pm, the newspaper reported.
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

According to the Washington Post, people in a tightly packed section of crowd could be heard shouting ‘help … please help’ in a clip filmed at 9.12pm – over an hour before the performance finished.
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

Houston’s fire chief, Samuel Peña, later told a press conference that the crowd had begun to ‘compress towards the front of the stage’, causing some injuries, by 9.15pm. pic.twitter.com/31ZUGAM6Y7
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

Staff allegedly ignored fans who begged them to halt the performance, including some who climbed onto raised platforms to point out the injured to camera operators as early as 9.30pm. pic.twitter.com/nkSqVVu2j3
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

thread continues...all that is needed for lawsuit "discovery" is already there...

and no doubt it's going to be a lot more than this, that's just a start:

It’s since been reported Scott and guest performer Drake are being sued for $1,000,000 (£741,000) over the ‘preventable’ stampede.

Neither Scott nor Drake have commented on the lawsuits.https://t.co/ROgQuIGgSv
— Metro Entertainment (@Metro_Ents) November 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/09/2021 - 3:34pm

and what a lovely little cult for profit he has going there!

Astroworld staff were instructed to refer to dead concert-goers as "Smurfs," according to a 56-page security and emergency medical response plan obtained by CNN and authored by Austin, Texas-based concert promoter Scoremore.

My story:https://t.co/6Cr9HValhx
— Ariana Garcia (@Ariana_noGrande) November 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/09/2021 - 4:27pm

Music Festivals With No Assigned Seating Aren't Very Safe At All https://t.co/P8krgTKazk pic.twitter.com/jzdOHvC7Yz
— ArtsJournal (@ArtsJournalNews) November 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/14/2021 - 10:40am

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