Astroworld: Travis Scott halted concert SEVERAL TIMES to help fans, say witnesses
A video that has surfaced on social media shows Travis Scott urging security guards to help a fan who collapsed during the Astroworld concert that killed eight people. The video shows Scott halting the concert in Houston, Texas, to ask the security for help after the fan seemed to be in trouble. "Somebody help him, somebody has passed out right here!" Scott is heard telling someone. "Don't touch him, don't touch him. Everybody just back up. Security, jump in real quick. Somebody jump in. Come on, come on!"
At least eight people died and several others injured when chaos broke out at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, on Friday night, November 5. Video footage of the festival is being widely circulated on social media, showing a stampede of fans breaking through a fence. The videos also show people attending the festival dancing on ambulances. Some witnesses have claimed that the rapper stopped his show several times to urge security guards to help his fans.
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Hey I'm not even a Travis Scott fan, but this is probably the video you guys should be sharing.
— Joel Embiid’s OTHER Child (@EmbiidJr) November 6, 2021
35 second mark, Travis stops the show and asks for help: pic.twitter.com/mxllJadeRK
A number of witnesses, on the other hand, have also claimed that Scott did not do enough to help his wounded fans. Amid claims that Scott could have done more to help his fans, an old video of Billie Eilish helping a fan who became unwell at one of her concerts has resurfaced.
Talking about the tragic Astroworld concert, Houston fire chief Samuel Peña told reporters, "The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries. "People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic." A "mass casualty" event led to scores of people being rushed to hospitals, with as many as 11 people reportedly suffering cardiac arrests.
Meanwhile, Kyle Green, a man who was allegedly pushed from a third-floor balcony at a Travis Scott concert four years ago, said he was “devastated” to hear eight people were killed at the rapper’s Astroworld show on November 5 in Houston. In 2017, Green, 27, was injured at Scott’s April 30 concert at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The fall left Green paralyzed. At the concert four years ago, Scott was seen encouraging a different fan to drop down from the second-floor balcony into the crowd below him. “I see you, but are you gonna do it?” the rapper was seen telling the fan who had climbed over the railing. “They gonna catch you. Don’t be scared. Don’t be scared!”
Green said he was forced over the edge of a railing at the 2017 concert. A lawsuit filed six months later in 2017 claimed that Green broke several bones including the vertebrae as a result of the accident. He was then hauled off the floor by show staff “without a cervical collar, backboard and other safety precautions.”
Learning about the November 5 tragedy, Green's lawyer Howard Hershenhorn said that Green was "devastated and heartbroken". "He’s even more incensed by the fact that it could have been avoided had Travis learned his lesson in the past and changed his attitude about inciting people to behave in such a reckless manner,” Hershenhorn said.
