LAWSUIT # 1 (of several)
Your plaintiff is a trampled/crushed 35yo attendee.
There are 15 defendants (including Travis Scott himself, Scoremore, ASM Global, and 3 Live Nation subsidiaries). They are "festival organizers." It is alleged that TS used his concert behavior AND his social media accounts to "encourage a culture of violence" at his shows.
Why not just make it a class action lawsuit for the sake of efficiency?
This is nothing new for Live Nation. They are regularly sued by artists, attendees, and vendors for events hosted with insufficient safety and health (covid-19) precautions. They will sell more tickets to cool events later. Live Nation will outlive us all. Live Nation will entertain our GREATgrandchildren.
Evidence abounds.
--The footage of excited young attendees rushing thru the security gates (and piling up just beyond the metal detectors until police arrive on horseback) must never be shown in a courtroom. Nobody ejected the people who lacked tickets? Did Live Nation INTEND on hosting 50,000 ppl? Were 50,000 tickets distributed?
--The footage of Travis Scott deliberating aloud about "stop the WHAT?" before signaling for the next song makes him seem negligent. Callous. Maybe even malicious.
--same for footage of TS dismissing people who approached him on stage (presumably with notifications about the OOControl crowd)
--The images of horizontal festival attendees piled up as a crowd traps them in a swirling vortex? Damning.
--The PARKED ambulance enclosed by the crowd (while Travis Scott performs above the flashing ambulance lights without intervening) proves that somebody didn't care enough to ENFORCE safety procedures and perform crowd control.
--footage of blue/purple young concertgoers getting CPR while Travis watches, robot dances, and hums in the key of autotune ---> out-of-court settlement
--Let us not even discuss the unconscious white girl dropped on her head by cops lifting her gurney over a barricade. A jury would want to know why she was not carried out through a normal exit. Instead of hauling her over a fence, WHY NOT USE A GATE? Because 50k ppl were blocking the exit? How did THAT happen? Who condoned THAT?
--Festival organizers cannot set up immovable barricades AND claim that there was no max occupancy at this outdoor event. A finite amount of people fit between barricades and against the stage. A fire marshal could calculate max occupancy from the square footage between barricades and the stage. But Live Nations could not? Live Nation refused to do so.
pro tips:
(1) DO NOT START A CONCERT UNTIL THE HOSTS CAN CONTROL THE CROWD.
(2) DO NOT START A CONCERT UNTIL ROWDY NON-TICKETHOLDERS HAVE BEEN EJECTED.
(3) do not give concerts at venues that have exceeded max capacity
. A lot of y’all still living in the early 90s you can tell by how many Nas threads there are
