What Went Wrong At Astroworld? The Deadly Dynamics Of Crowd Surge
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🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Crowd safety expert Keith Still explains the science behind how a concert crowd can transform into an uncontrollable mass that threatens human life.
Houston Chronicle music critic Joey Guerra, who attended the festival, grapples with how music fans are processing the tragedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Madeline Eskins says anyone that knows her knows she is a hardcore Travis Scott fan. |
| 0:06.3 | Or at least she was. |
| 0:08.1 | I mean at one point I was really going to get a cactus jack tattoo like on my ankle or something. |
| 0:12.8 | I was a huge I can tell you every album I can I know the words every song. |
| 0:17.4 | There's not a there is not a single Travis Scott song that I do not know. |
| 0:20.8 | Madeline was at Astro World in Houston, Texas last week. |
| 0:24.8 | The music festival founded by Travis Scott where at least nine people were killed |
| 0:29.4 | and hundreds were injured after the crowd became chaotic. |
| 0:36.6 | I mean I couldn't even turn my head to talk to my boyfriend. |
| 0:39.8 | I couldn't move my arms. |
| 0:41.6 | I mean I was getting I felt like I was getting crushed. |
| 0:48.4 | Madeline has been to Astro World twice before this. |
| 0:51.8 | But she says this time something was different. |
| 0:54.8 | I was feeling like I could breathe before he even came on stage. |
| 1:00.0 | And you know a couple minutes before he came on stage is where I when I told my boyfriend, |
| 1:04.6 | hey we have to get out of here. |
| 1:06.4 | He was like we can't. |
| 1:07.5 | There's nowhere to go. |
| 1:08.6 | And I was like we we have to get out of here. |
| 1:10.9 | He said babe there is no way out. |
| 1:20.0 | Everybody around me was screaming help. |
| 1:22.7 | No one around my direct area. |
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