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“He’s devastated and heartbroken for the families of those who were killed and for those individuals who were severely injured,” Green’s lawyer, Howard Hershehorn, told the outlet. One of Travis Scott’s Manhattan concerts became so chaotic that one of his fans fell off a balcony and was left paralyzed. In an interview Saturday, Green’s lawyer told Rolling Stone that his client was “devastated” and furious over the most recent tragedy. “I just laid there, and finally, an ambulance came.’’ “I was in a lot of pain,” Green told The Post in 2017. Plaintiff Kyle Green, then 23, claimed that Scott made matters worse by ordering his security guards to drag the badly injured young man’s limp body to the stage so the rapper could try to give him a ring as a consolation prize. Travis Scott was arrested at music festivals in 20 for whipping up hysteria and encouraging moshing. Weeks later, one of Scott’s Manhattan concerts became so chaotic one of his fans fell off a balcony and was left paralyzed, a lawsuit alleged. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, reportedly in a sweetheart deal with prosecutors to avoid more serious charges.
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In 2017, police accused Scott of inciting a riot during a show at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, where several people, including a security guard, were injured. Scott was charged over music festivals in Arkansas in 2017 and in Chicago in 2015 for whipping up hysteria and encouraging moshing that left a security guard and concertgoers injured.Īt his latest concert, eight people were killed and more than 300 injured in a stampede at Friday night’s Astroworld festival at NRG Park in Scott’s native Housto n. Rapper Travis Scott has a history of inciting music-festival crowds to ignore security and violently storm the stage - leading to him to be arrested twice previously and sued. Houston officials to conduct internal review into cause of Astroworld tragedy
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Nike postpones release of Travis Scott sneaker collaboration Travis Scott among several defendants hit with $750M suit over deadly concert Some fans made a beeline for the stage built solely for the headliner, staking out positions they would hold for hours under the manufactured peaks of "Utopia Mountain."īy noon, a merchandise area was shut down because the crowd was out of control, according to Houston Fire Department logs, and by 5 p.m., as many as 5,000 people without festival wristbands were believed to have breached barricades, jumped fences and even used bolt cutters to make their way into the concert grounds.Travis Scott, Kylie Jenner, Alec Baldwin – no one shows an ounce of shame anymore
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Though the concert grounds hosted numerous acts, Scott, a Houston-born musician who founded the festival in 2018 on the heels of his chart-topping album "Astroworld," was undoubtedly the top draw. The enthusiasm of some 50,000 spectators at the sold-out Astroworld festival was evident from the time gates opened hours earlier, when some of the earliest arrivals rushed through entrances with such force that metal detectors were toppled as security guards and police on horseback struggled to keep up. Nine people have died after attending Travis Scott's Astroworld festival performance in Houtson last week.