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

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    When I think about the physics/spatials of it...if they had simply done away with those rows of space between the rails--so that the entire audience was one huge mass--then you easily could've had thousands of people dead instead of dozens