Cops launched Astroworld report to harm Travis Scott album gross sales: lawyer

Houston police timed the discharge of their probe right into a lethal crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld music pageant to scuttle gross sales of his new album, his lawyer contends.

The file producer and rapper’s newest disc, “Utopia,” got here out Friday, and authorities had been properly conscious of the extremely publicized album’s launch once they issued the outcomes of their 18-month investigation into the ten deaths on the 2021 Astroworld occasion, lawyer Kent Schaffer informed TMZ.

The timing of the 1,266-page report on the Astroworld deaths was “a coincidence,” Houston police stated.

A grand jury refused to indict the rapper final month on legal costs associated to the pageant, though Scott continues to be dealing with a number of lawsuits from victims and households of victims.

Scott has said on social media that he’s “devastated” by the tragedy, however has requested lawsuits in opposition to him personally be dismissed.

The victims, together with a nine-year-old boy, had been killed within the stampede on the pageant at NRG Park in Houston, and an extra 300 individuals had been handled at a discipline hospital in the course of the occasion.

Scott beforehand claimed he had no concept that a number of followers had been being trampled on and passing out within the crowd whereas he carried out on the November 2021 occasion.

Fan-captured footage exhibits Scott noticing an ambulance within the crowd, pointing at it and asking, “What the f – – ok is that?”

“If everyone good, put a center finger as much as the sky,” he instructed the gang after two crew members got here onstage to speak to Scott.

The rapper then resumed the present.

Scott had informed police that he stopped the present after one other performer, Drake, left the stage, when he was given directions to take action in his earpiece. Schaffer stated that he adopted all directions from authorities, which is why the rapper was not charged with a criminal offense, he informed TMZ.