After a 1,200-page report from the Houston Police Division, new particulars concerning the Astroworld crowd crush tragedy are popping out.
In response to the police investigation, the rapper had a contract in place with Apple requiring him to complete the set to obtain a $4.5 million cost. The report doesn’t speculate on whether or not this led the rapper to proceed the live performance 37 minutes previous when it was declared a mass casualty occasion. A grand jury has declined prices in opposition to Scott, however the contract may play a task within the civil litigation that Scott faces.
“It could possibly be crucial,” Steve Herman, an legal professional advised the Houston Touchdown. “He’s by no means going to confess that that was his motivation, but when there’s different circumstantial proof from which a jury can infer that that was a motivation in not stopping the live performance, although he knew folks have been getting crushed—that’s fairly highly effective stuff.
“There’s an excellent likelihood he didn’t even learn the contract,” Herman continues. “It could possibly be vital proof, however it is also fully irrelevant. You would need to know much more about why that provision was in there.”
After the Astroworld crowd crush, Scott took to social media to say he had no thought folks have been dying. However not less than two audio engineers have disputed that account in the identical police report. They advised Houston detectives that they audibly heard associates informing the rapper that individuals have been dying within the viewers. Scott was questioned for a number of hours about his plan of action in the course of the live performance—which didn’t halt for 37 minutes as emergency employees fought to get support to those that wanted it.
The Apple contract with Travis Scott to stream Astroworld 2021 had 5 stipulations to meet so as to obtain the complete $4.5 million cost from Apple. “Of these 5 acts, one was to finish the present,” writes Houston Police detective Josh Caten. Caten suggests Apple was introduced in late to assist plan a livestream to additional offset money owed incurred in constructing the large Astroworld stage.