The family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who died after being crushed at the Astroworld Festival, have called out Travis Scott for a recent statement about a report about the incident.
The police released the damning report as Scott was preparing for his Utopia album rollout and accused the cops of trying to sabotage the release.
“For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many,” Blount family attorney Hilliard told DailyMail. “This extremely detailed and damning report confirms both the negligence and extreme gross negligence of those involved, including the Travis Scott team. For Mr. Scott to allow his lawyers and spokespeople to make the reckless and untrue statement that just because he was not indicted means he’s blame-free is arrogant and insulting to the memory of 10 year old Ezra as well as the other victims of this terrible night. Of course they would only focus on how the report’s release date hurts their album sales instead of the facts contained inside of the report.”
During the festival, Ezra was on his father’s shoulders but his father Treston Blunt “couldn’t breathe at all and passed out,” and Ezra fell into the crowd.
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