On November 5, 2021, a tragedy occurred at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Music Festival
in Houston, Texas.
When Travis’ performance was preparing to begin on the first night of the festival,
a surge of people created a stampede that left eight dead and several more injured.
While the stampede itself was initially thought to be the main cause of the various deaths
and injuries, it now appears as if someone in the crowd was injecting people with a syringe.
Travis Scott has come under immense fire from the public in the wake of the eight deaths,
though his legal culpability remains to be determined.
In the meantime, the public is left to piece together what happened via the testimonials
of those that were there, including the authorities.
Join Trender as first responders reveal what actually happened at Astroworld.
As is typical with an event of its size, there were numerous policemen and firefighters set
up outside of the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, just in case disaster broke
out.
Sadly, when disaster did break out, there wasn’t much that they could do.
Similar to the notorious Fyre Festival from 2017, the 2021 Astroworld Festival seems to
have been poorly planned.
When Travis Scott was set to perform his set on the festival’s first night, there were
no other musical artists performing on any other stages during the timeslot.
This was planned on purpose so that Travis’ crowd could appear as big as possible for
the cameras.
In addition to the fact that Travis was the only musical performer at the time, the area
where the crowd was gathering was boxed in on three sides.
This meant that there was only one side for those that entered to get out.
When the crowd surged in to see Travis perform, the stampede created a vacuum that swept many
people underneath, creating a sea of dead bodies underneath the festival audience.
Eight people were killed, and several more were severely injured.
Many received injuries that will likely stay with them for life.
There was apparently a lack of communication between local Houston authorities and the
planners of the 2021 Astroworld Festival.
When authorities asked for radio means to communicate with the festival’s third-party
security and medical teams, they were provided with phone numbers.
Due to the area’s sketchy service, those phone numbers proved to be essentially useless.
It appears that those running the festival didn’t have a firm grasp of what they were
doing, leaving the authorities to fend for themselves in the event of inevitable disaster.
This came in spite of the fact that this was musical artist Travis Scott’s third time
putting on the Astroworld Festival since its inception in 2018.
Live Nation is the entertainment company that has been helping Travis Scott put on Astroworld.
Both Travis and the company have a history of allowing things to get out of hand at public
events.
Travis has been charged with disorderly conduct in the past for inciting riots at concerts,
and there had even been a history of riot behavior at the Astroworld Festival during
its 2018 and 2019 iterations.
The festival skipped a year during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and didn’t come
back for a third time until 2021.
The festival took its name from Travis’ 2018 album, Astroworld.
Among the many victims of the 2021 Astroworld Festival is a 9-year-old boy who was rushed
to the hospital and is currently in a medically induced coma.
He is just one of several survivors that remain in critical condition.
Authorities are still trying to figure out what exactly caused the death of the eight
individuals who passed away.
Though there were certainly issues with crowd control, there are also reports that there
was someone amongst the crowd that was sticking people with a syringe.
One security guard reports that he was poked with a syringe, and he subsequently began
overdosing from an unknown substance and had to be resuscitated by medical personnel.
Many of the victims appear to have gone into cardiac arrest, and some were reported to
have been foaming at the mouth.
If this is the case, many are speculating that these symptoms seem more in line with
a drug overdose than with a stampede death.
While the presence of an unknown assailant perched in the crowd poking people with a
syringe certainly complicates things, it’s undeniable that there were people being trampled
as a result of the festival’s poor planning.
It seems that numerous things came together to create this tragic incident, and it has
yet to be determined exactly what the main catalyst of the many deaths and injuries was.
Some have speculated that the assailant with the syringe caused panic in the crowd.
According to them, it was this panic that caused the stampede, not Travis and his performance.
This may take some culpability off of Travis and his poor planning, but there’s also
the matter of how he acted once ambulances and medical personnel began attempting to
swarm the crowd.
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In the wake of the disaster at the 2021 Astroworld Festival, many have called into question musical
artist Travis Scott’s behavior when he noticed ambulances in the distance while he was performing
on stage.
As the stampede broke out and many were being trampled to their deaths, there were screams
coming from the audience that were drowned out by Travis’ performance.
A man and a woman reportedly climbed up a ladder and began begging a cameraman who was
filming the event for help, screaming that there were people dying in the crowd below.
Sadly, the cameraman had little idea of what to do and had no means to stop the event.
It remains uncertain just how aware Travis Scott was of what was going on in the crowd.
However, the artist has shown little regard for the safety of the crowd at his performances
in the past.
Given the nature of Travis' shows and musical performances in general, it’s not entirely
uncommon for there to be people passing out for various reasons, whether drug intoxication,
dehydration, or simply from being overwhelmed.
When Travis saw ambulance lights in the crowd, he claims to have assumed that they were responding
to an issue that wasn’t serious enough for him to stop performing.
Travis could also be seen communicating with security near the stage to go help people
nearby him in the crowd who seemed to be in distress.
However, other footage shows him apparently ignoring what seems to be an unconscious body
being brought out of the crowd directly in front of him.
Many have expressed the belief that the 2021 Astroworld Festival disaster could’ve been
averted if Travis had stopped performing as soon as he saw the ambulance lights shining
in the distance of the crowd.
However, others defend Travis’ actions as being an unfortunate byproduct of music festival
culture.
They say that Travis had little reason to believe that there was any need for him to
stop the show given that the sight of an ambulance at such a performance was normal.
The authorities are actively continuing to investigate what truly caused the incident
at the 2021 Astroworld Festival.
In the meantime, both Travis Scott and Live Nation have been named in a number of lawsuits.
Travis’ fellow musical performer, Drake, is even named in a lawsuit.
Drake was a surprise musical guest the night of the incident, and the lawsuit naming him
alleges that he played a part in things getting out of control.
For the most part, people are putting the blame on Travis Scott and Live Nation, although
there is still the matter of the mysterious culprit with the syringe.
Travis’ wife, Kendall Jenner, was watching her husband’s musical performance with their
daughter and some friends via a luxurious vantage point.
The social media influencer shared a story on Instagram that showed footage of an ambulance
being brought into the crowd below, and the story was later removed amidst the ensuing
controversy.
What exactly Kendall was trying to communicate by sharing this footage remains unknown, and
it’s uncertain whether or not she truly understood what was going on.
Both her and Travis have issued incredibly apologetic statements in the days since the
disaster, though that is certainly to be expected.
The incident occurred on the first day of what was supposed to be a two-day festival,
and the second day was subsequently canceled as a result of the disaster.
This disaster has proven to be one of the most serious incidents of its kind to have
occurred in decades.
One of the last incidents of this kind was in the 1970s when 11 people were trampled
to death at a concert being put on by the band the Who.
While injuries and deaths from overcrowding at events used to be more common in the past,
modern advances in architecture and event planning have made it so that these types
of things are rarely an issue.
That is, so long as the event in question is being put on by professionals.
The 2021 Astroworld Festival incident is likely going to have a lasting impact on the music
industry in some form.
However, it has yet to be determined just how serious of an impact the disaster will
have on Travis Scott’s career.
The experimental hip-hop artist rose up over the course of the 2010s to become one of the
biggest names in music, to the point where he is able to draw audiences big enough to
cause deadly disasters.
He was even given his very own McDonald’s value meal in 2020.
If this success continues, the artist will likely need to be a little bit more considerate
about how he reacts when his audience starts dying!
Besides the eight people that died at the 2021 Astroworld Festival, many more received
life-altering injuries.
Now it’s time to hear from you: do you think that Travis Scott and Live Nation are culpable
for what happened at Astroworld, or do you think that the deadly incident was caused
by too many different factors to ever truly determine?
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