The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.
According to audience members, minutes before Scott's performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. "I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn't breathe. I started yelling for help... I was so scared I felt like I was going to die."
Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators "for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed."
The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.
An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. "They acted very amateurish, as if they didn't know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR..."
The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: "Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask." But the medical staff just stood there because they didn't have balloons, they didn't have AED, they didn't even have gloves...
In the end, the girl could not be revived. "I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared."
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as "unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely."
Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was "heartbroken about what happened last night."
This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.
One of the victims' relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event's organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.
Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.
This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a "murderer", suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn't the first time he's advocated violence at a concert...
Crazy singer with a long rap sheet
Tragedy after tragedy, America has failed to learn
In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.
In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice's third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert...
And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.
Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.
Other media reports said Paddock was "more ambitious" and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties...
However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.
The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.
Scott's "death concert" is a microcosm of what's happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.
Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience -- the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience's behavior through body language.
Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to "instructions", an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.
Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: "If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!" "I want to party! I want chaos!" "All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back." He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.
It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.
So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many "death concerts" continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?