
In 2019, when video surfaced of his fans breaking through a barricade at one of his shows, he reacted in his Instagram stories, “DA YOUTH DEM CONTROL THE FREQUENCY,” adding “EVERYONE HAVE FUN. In fact, he’s publicly encouraged fans to get rowdy for his performances. Scott has a history of having hyper shows. But what is predictable is that it’s more likely than not they’re going to leave with a head injury if they’re doing it in kind of a forceful fashion.” “How they’re going to move is unpredictable. “As people are jumping around and and doing actions, it’s kind of unpredictable,” Hashish said. It was followed by lower extremities, and when coupled with being in a large crowd and being off-balance, you get this mass collection of dangerous calamities.ĭr. Hashish explained that in such situations, more than half of the injuries sustained are head injuries. “What happens and what they found in these corners and in these mosh pits, in particular, is that there’s this concept of group-think where essentially somebody comes up with an idea such as the surge of the stage and then people kind of just lose themselves in the moment and they act on that and they kind of fall into the pressure of doing so even against probably their best judgment, right? And then that results, and this kind of potentially catastrophic event like what happened in this situation.” Hashish explains that once you have that many people grouped together in a tight space, “the main risk is just the fundamental lack of control over your environment,” not to mention a bit of copycat syndrome. The attendance of the festival at the time of Scott’s set on Saturday had reached upwards of 50,000 people.

In this case, some people got obviously trampled,” he said. And obviously, the problem with that is that when you have a mass of people moving together, a lot of people unfortunately get left behind.

He confirms that a crowd surge is a sudden and rapid movement in a large crowd of people, particularly during a concert “as a surge of people moving forward trying to get in close proximity to the artists. Hashish is the founder of the National Biomechanics Institute, a Los Angeles consulting company that examines injuries and injury prevention. Rami Hashish, a body performance and injury expert, explained to theGrio, that there are more than one contributing factors that may have led to what Pena deemed a “mass casualty incident.”ĭr. Travis Scott performs at Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Friday, Nov.
