Travis Scott is facing fresh allegations that he caused a stampede at Rolling Loud in Miami in 2019, including by flatly ignoring police calls for the “dangerous and uncontrollable” concert to be shut down.
Scott, who is separately facing hundreds of legal claims over the deadly Astroworld festival, was added last month as a defendant to an existing lawsuit filed in 2020 by Marchelle Love, a woman who says she was seriously injured in May 2019 the organizers of Rolling Loud filed the incident.
In the latest version of the complaint, Love’s lawyers allege that the police stormed backstage just after Scott started his set and demanded that he stop performing because the crowd was becoming unsafe – a request that the Star rapper allegedly disregarded.
“Despite being ordered by authorities to cease his continued incitement of the crowd, Travis Scott continued to verbally and physically incite the crowd to engage in a mosh pit and other dangerous activities,” Love’s attorneys wrote. “Despite the fact that Travis Scott was aware and could clearly see concert-goers being injured, choking, losing consciousness, struggling and being kicked, he continued to perform while authorities were forced to attempt to injure him to help concert-goers.”
In a statement to billboard, a Scott rep, called the new allegations a “blatant, cynical attempt to attack Travis” over a “3-year-old incident that is being intentionally misrepresented.” They stressed that the rush to Rolling Loud, as reported by pitchfork and other outlets at the time, was caused by a false report from an active shooter, causing panic in the crowd.
“As even the complaint makes clear, this incident was related to a false report of a mid-show shoot unrelated to Travis’ performance,” Scott’s rep said. “This cheap opportunism is based on a blatant lie that is easy to detect. And it is particularly telling that this plaintiff’s attorney did not even bring a claim against Travis when he originally filed the lawsuit on behalf of his client more than two years ago, or in four previous versions of this lawsuit.”
The new legal documents included a photo that allegedly showed Scott dealing with police officers, as well as another that showed him continuing to perform while authorities tried to rescue injured concert-goers from the crowd. But Scott’s reps said the picture was taken just as police alerted Scott to the false shooting report and that he “fully cooperated” with their requests.
In addition to Scott (whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster II), Sequel Tour Solutions, a contractor who allegedly provided security and crowd management services for Rolling Loud, and SLS Consulting, an engineering firm, are also named as defendants in the case Prepared safety plans for the event. When it was filed in 2020, it originally named various other Rolling Loud organizers, but they were dropped from the case earlier this year.
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