At Least 8 Dead at Houston Music Festival After Crowd Surge Causes ‘Panic’
www.nytimes.com
Dozens of other people who attended a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld music festival were injured, Houston’s fire chief said.

The story is only going to get worse as more information comes out in the next few days.

This is an account from someone who saw people dying and tried to stop the concert, only to be told "gtfo, we're tryna make money here" as people scream for their lives, and drop dead, around her:

https://twitter.com/speedyred711/status/1456913478879432704?t=e3FXNhHrW83rCACeThNQsw&s=19

Here's a vid of her hopping on stage:

https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456893054384844802?t=L9gZT-DcOgw1huq9NizhuQ&s=19

I also present videos I gathered from Twitter. Some of these are NSFW, and include medics giving CPR to people who are passed out and/or dead:

https://twitter.com/LinaHidalgoTX/status/1456884063768301569?t=EywCKtXWqHGDWS8ezxFMLw&s=19

https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456891027130880000?t=PUoHs5_YEC1BogJLGztcAg&s=19

https://twitter.com/redblacc/status/1456919916926361608?t=gZG8dJGaBOYGzYNOyHXItg&s=19

https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1456918853800267776?t=WE4GVH23zimZN81zn0iqXg&s=19

https://twitter.com/LMFireSystems1/status/1456893701834293254?t=rG8HAPUNl93uIVxiLtO5Qg&s=19

https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456895045894803458?t=rj6EbBBkvDHCOa4t8QStbw&s=19

https://twitter.com/mvmo___/status/1456870414530064385?t=iGY1TCjCdUyewVJZPynG9w&s=19

https://twitter.com/cozyboycutz/status/1456888060944203776?t=ZIPpvObRfsA96NLGhWQe1A&s=19

  • layla
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    3 years ago

    Travis literally glances at paramedics giving some guy CPR and keeps going. And all the sociopaths next to the paredmedics who keep dancing like nothing's happening what the fuck???

    • MarxistMaths [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don't place all the blame at Travis' feet tbh, it's hard to know wtf is going on when you're up there with lights blinding you and thousands of people screaming - but SURELY someone on staff could have let him know, or rushed the stage/mic and let EVERYONE know.

      Edit: Also, when you're regularly playing stadiums of tens of thousands of people, one person passed out/fainting/or in a rarer case getting CPR isn't super unusual, and security will quickly pick them up. Once it's two or three getting CPR, that's a red flag, but you'd expect someone to communicate to you through your earpiece that shit's whack and to shut the show down.

      • layla
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        3 years ago

        Yeah... staff at the event + the (lack of) organisation/planning seem to be the real issue. Fucking sucks, some of the people who've passed were so young

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        yea I was thinking that too. the performer's mind is on performing, you can't be doing that and thinking about how to make judgement calls at the same time.

        the staff and most importantly whoever set it up to that density, definitely at fault

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, that's on the staff. My friends played a show where people were getting stabbed in the crowd and they couldn't tell and it was maybe 100 people there.

    • layla
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      3 years ago

      Some of the scenes from the entrance to the event remind me of the football English fans from earlier this year at the Euroes. Jfc

      • MarxistMaths [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yep. Though nobody died at those events, because presumably, and reasonably, "breaches" were accounted for.