Travis Scott is seeking to be dismissed from the lawsuits tied to the 2021 Astroworld Festival crowd rush that killed 10 people.
crowd rush, according to a motion filed in Houston on Monday, with Scott’s attorneys arguing that he wasn’t in charge of event safety and that “performers are not expected to render special protection to the audience, nor to safeguard them from the rest of the crowd.”
The motion comes over two years after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured during Scott’s performance in November 2021. Drake, who came out as a surprise guest at the end of Scott’s Astroworld performance, similarly Scott and his team have said in public statements and in court filings that the rapper was unaware of the tragedy both during the show and immediately after the concert. In the motion filed Monday, Scott’s lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, wrote that the evidence “demonstrates that the Scott Defendants were not responsible for venue security or operations, or the site layout.
“No one disputes that tragedy struck the Astroworld Festival,” the motion said. “But promoting and performing at a concert do not equate to the power to control a crowd or to design a venue safely. Basic tort principles prevent imposing liability on the Scott Defendants for a tragedy arising from forces legally controlled by others.”Where's Sean Combs? Everything We Know — and Don't — About Federal RaidsScott was deposed over five months ago, and Drake was deposed last November.
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