, on Friday — the same day that the Houston Police Department issued its 1,266-page report on the Astroworld Festival tragedy, in which 10 people were killed and more than a dozen hospitalized as the crowd surged forward during Scott’s performance at Houston’s NRG Stadium in November 2021.
According to Scott’s attorney, the timing of the new album and the police report arriving on the same day is not random.he believed that Houston Police timed the release in order to damage sales ofwhile also while also distracting from the fact that a grand jury found Travis was not criminally accountable for the tragedy.
“Travis Scott and his team were, as anticipated, fully cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the Astroworld tragedy by a grand jury based on the very report released today. It is outrageous that HPD has chosen to resort to tactics that attempt to discredit Travis and his team, casting doubt on how the unfortunate events at Astroworld,” Schaeffer continued.
“Travis’s commitment to his audience’s safety and well-being is well-documented,” he said, noting that “he actively stopped the show three separate times.”Travis Scott Opens Up About Astroworld Tragedy In First Interview: ‘Just Trying To Wrap My Head Around It’ He added: “We encourage the Houston PD to make peace with the fact that Travis Scott and his team were found innocent of any wrongdoing and to focus on what really matters — making sure tragedies like Astroworld never occur again under their watch.”, the police report “details for the first time how Scott perceived what was happening mid-performance and what he told police,” based on interviews with promoters, security personnel and various key witnesses.