On Monday, Rapper Travis Scott’s lawyers argued that the rapper should be removed from hundreds of cases on the fatal 2021 Astroworld concert. They said that Scott was not responsible for making safety plans or watching for any threats at the Houston event.
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On Monday, Rapper Travis Scott’s lawyers argued that the rapper should be removed from hundreds of cases about the fatal 2021 Astroworld concert. They said that Scott was not responsible for making safety plans or watching for any threats at the Houston event.
However, Scott disregarded safety concerns and threatened to post the personal information of anybody who canceled the event due to safety concerns online, according to attorneys representing the family of one of the ten individuals who were murdered during the festival’s significant crowd surge.
Scott’s lawyer, Stephen Brody, indicated that his client is still “devastated” and “heartbroken” about what happened on November 5, 2021, when law enforcement and festival organizers attempted to halt the performance and the upsurge.
The festival’s producer, Live Nation, as well as several other persons and organizations, were sued by the relatives of the ten fatalities and hundreds of wounded parties.
In court, Brody claimed that Scott and his touring and production business, XX Global, need to be removed from the lawsuit by state District Judge Kristen Hawkins. According to them, his festival obligations included performing, promoting, selecting talent for the occasion, ensuring his safety, and approving all artistic decisions about the festival.
And that concludes it, said Brody. According to Brody, Scott—real name: Jacques Berman Webster II—paused his performance four times throughout the event to address concerns he noticed in the audience, including a few individuals who seemed to be distressed.
“Did he have the authority to show pause?” Brody asked Hawkins. Brody suggested he cease his performance and see whether the worry had been handled.
However, Brody noted that if they felt anything wasn’t suitable, the festival’s organizers and the Houston police may turn on the lights or the sound.
The contract Scott signed with Live Nation identified him as a co-promoter of the festival; as a promoter, he was accountable for the event’s safety as per Texas law, according to Noah Wexler, an attorney for Madison Dubiski’s family.
Wexler said that Scott encouraged his followers to break into the festival grounds the day of the event by tweeting, “We still sneaking the wild ones in,” in a tweet he posted on May 5, 2021, following the announcement that Astroworld tickets had sold out.
According to Wexler, this led to a “massively oversold” festival at risk of happening because of a “conscious disregard for safety.”
Wexler said that by demanding that Scott be the sole musical artist to utilize the main stage on the festival’s opening day—a scenario that would cause issues with crowd flow—Scott and his manager, David Stromberg, created unsafe safety circumstances. Additionally, Scott and Stromberg were charged with threatening to expose any festival organizers who called off the performance due to safety concerns. Stromberg said in a deposition that his remarks about doxxing were a joke made in “bad taste.”
According to Brody, the security issues brought up by Scott, being the lone user of the main stage, have been resolved.
Wexler also said that Scott and his crew had disregarded festival organizers’ directives to end the show at 10 p.m. In a deposition, Scott said he was never informed that he needed to end the concert at 10 p.m. because there were dead persons in the audience.
Scott said that following Drake’s hip-hop guest performance, he was instructed to end the concert. The performance concluded at 10:12 p.m. I am having one of the worst days, as are many other people, families, and the city. “It was just a bad day overall,” Scott stated in a September deposition.
On Monday, lawyers for more people and businesses associated with the event requested that Hawkins be removed from the lawsuit. At a later time, Hawkins was supposed to rule on Scott’s motion and the others.
Lawsuits filed against Drake and some other cast members and corporations were rejected by Hawkins last week. Following a Houston police investigation, Scott was not charged, and a grand jury declined to prosecute him or the other five individuals on any felony offenses connected to the fatal concert.
The victims, who were between the ages of 9 and 27, perished from compressive asphyxia, which a medical professional compared to being run over by a car. On May 6, the first lawsuit—filed by Dubiski’s family—is scheduled to go to trial.
The relatives of four of the deceased have settled some of the cases that were brought, along with those of the hundreds of wounded people.
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