TX - 10 deceased as a result of crowd surge at Astroworld festival, Houston, 5 Nov 2021

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mickey2942 said:
It seems like Travis Scott is being treated far more harshly than other top names who had concert deaths, Pearl Jam, The Who... those acts continued to perform.

Maybe this will blow over. Maybe the climate has changed in accepting these tragedies, with #metoo. No longer accepting "status quo".
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Travis Scott encouraged this type of behavior, that's the difference. It was his whole schtick. He encouraged a kid to jump off a balcony at one of his concerts, and someone ended up paralyzed because of it. That's just one example of the type of performer TS has always been.
 
Medical Examiner Releases Awful Details About Astroworld Deaths

Snipped by me; this article quotes the LA Times:

From the Los Angeles Times

According to a medical expert, what probably happened was that the pressure from the large crowd at the event was so great that it quickly squeezed all the air from the lungs of the 10 victims, causing them to pass out within a minute or so and die because critical organs, such as the heart and brain, were depleted of oxygen.

Dr. George W. Williams, a critical care anesthesiologist with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said the hundreds and possibly thousands of pounds of pressure the victims likely felt on their chests was “like being crushed by a car.”

“Seconds really do count to allow for that person to recover and to be rescued from that terrible event. ... The organs like the brain and the heart start getting injury, and, after three to four minutes, that injury becomes so severe to where you can’t bring that person back,” said Williams, who also works at Harris Health LBJ, one of the health science center’s teaching hospitals.
 
Kristin Esq. said:
Medical Examiner Releases Awful Details About Astroworld Deaths

Snipped by me; this article quotes the LA Times:

From the Los Angeles Times

According to a medical expert, what probably happened was that the pressure from the large crowd at the event was so great that it quickly squeezed all the air from the lungs of the 10 victims, causing them to pass out within a minute or so and die because critical organs, such as the heart and brain, were depleted of oxygen.

Dr. George W. Williams, a critical care anesthesiologist with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said the hundreds and possibly thousands of pounds of pressure the victims likely felt on their chests was “like being crushed by a car.”

“Seconds really do count to allow for that person to recover and to be rescued from that terrible event. ... The organs like the brain and the heart start getting injury, and, after three to four minutes, that injury becomes so severe to where you can’t bring that person back,” said Williams, who also works at Harris Health LBJ, one of the health science center’s teaching hospitals.
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That horrifies me.
 
mickey2942 said:
It seems like Travis Scott is being treated far more harshly than other top names who had concert deaths, Pearl Jam, The Who... those acts continued to perform.
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As Bears10 illustrated, the key difference is that Scott is well documented for encouraging no limits behavior as part of his marketing image.

For example, he was cited in another State (Disorderly conduct type charge) after he encouraged people to rush the stage and then encouraged "stage diving" stunts.

At the Houston disaster, he continued to perform despite being told by staff / entourage members that crushes were developing and that people were getting injured.

Though even if he stopped playing, it was probably too late to save people as crushes cannot be "unplugged" fast, Scott associated injuries with "intensity" and then "intensity" with marketing appeal.

In contrast, Pearl Jam quit playing immediately when informed of crushes and repeatedly called for the crowd to step back in unison. This was too late, but it did show their good intentions.
 
“Recent reports raise serious concerns about whether your company took adequate steps to ensure the safety of the 50,000 concertgoers who attended Astroworld Festival,” the Members wrote. “For instance, reports indicate that security and medical staff were inexperienced or ill-equipped to deal with mass injuries. Some attendees stated that the placement of barricades made it difficult to escape. Experts have stated that Astroworld Festival organizers failed to heed warning signs.

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/d...t al. to Rapino-Live Nation re Astroworld.pdf

Maloney, Comer Lead Members in Launching Bipartisan Investigation into Live Nation’s Role in Astroworld Tragedy
 
Hundreds of Astroworld Festival Lawsuits Against Travis Scott and Live Nation Bundled into One Case — People

The Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation granted a motion on Jan. 26 for nearly 400 lawsuits — filed by organizers and victims — to combine litigation for a single judge, according to Billboard. The lawsuit will represent nearly 2,800 victims.

In the suit, the plaintiffs are seeking billions in damages and alleging negligence in the planning and managing of the music festival.
 
Astroworld movie set for release despite lawyers' concerns
Attorneys for Live Nation expressed their concerns in a letter this month to state District Judge Kristen Hawkins, who is handling all pretrial matters in the lawsuits.

"The involvement of plaintiffs' lawyers in the film, and the publicity the filmmakers and producers are trying to generate for it raise significant issues about efforts to taint the jury pool," Neal Manne and Kevin Yankowsky, two of Live Nation's attorneys, wrote in the letter.
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My humble but naive opinion is that NO ONE should profit from this tragedy, but that is probably unrealistic.

ETA - the families of those who died, and other victims from that night, deserve compensation, and I know the attorneys who have to go to bat for them must be paid, but films, books, etc. should make significant donations to a non-profit that advocates for concert safety. Probably pie-in-the-sky I know. I wonder if there IS such an entity?
 
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