So much has been going horribly wrong lately.
No sooner did I write an editor’s letter decrying the fact that the tragedy that unfolded on the set of “Rust,” killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, was 100% preventable had strict gun safety protocols been followed, than another deadly incident took the lives of 10 people at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston.Both catastrophes were the result of human error.
Our music writers Jem Aswad and Chris Willmanposted a story on Nov.
10, titled “A Ticking Time Bomb,” saying how the victims’ lawyers and many in the general public were laying much of the blame squarely on Scott for not stopping the concert when chaos ensued and for “riling up an already unruly crowd, well after the festival had been declared a ‘mass casualty’ event.” Multiple online videos backed up those assertions.
The first reports of people being trampled in the stampede came at 9:30 p.
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