Nearly two months after the Astroworld festival tragedy claimed the lives of 10 attendees and sponsors and brands backed away from headliner Travis Scott, actor and comedian Cedric The Entertainer is laying blame on the Houston Police Department for lack of security and lack of awareness when things took a turn for the worse.
Speaking on The Domenick Nati Show, the King of Comedy explained Scott is an entertainer and wasn’t to blame for the mass crowd surge.
“I looked at some of the videos and everything, I mean, the police were right there in front of them and they’re not reacting. That’s their job,” Cedric said.
He added, “Never was he up on stage yelling, ‘Let’s fuck them up and turn it up and let’s go and let’s get wilder.’ He didn’t incite it. I really wouldn’t like him to take the blame for that.”
The fallout from the festival has endured, just as HPD declared the festival grounds a closed crime scene and the stage where Scott performed was broken down.
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Scott’s lawyer, Edwin F. McPherson, called for an end to “finger-pointing” regarding the investigation and urged for authorities to focus so “we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from ever happening again.”
Does anyone even care about Cedric anyways?
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It’s not Travis Scott fault Houston police police department responsibility always trying to play with black man that’s what’s wrong with this country
Hey dummy! You replied to your own email and put your email address in as your name for the response. Real dumb.
Play with these black nutz, h03 and STFU.
How are they blaming a black man, he literally incites these things at his concerts and he is partially to blame.
Stop playing the race card.
Cedric the Entertainer can say whatever he wants to say he is so right just wait country always going to blame a black man
Nice way the to play the race card the cheif of police in Houston is also black, so know what? He also warned Travis that people will go crazy from being in from Covid. Also Cedric needs to look at the right videos. Travis is guilty of not pausing the show, but not for the deaths.
Now thats what I call “Real Talk from an OG !!! I aint even a Travis Scott fan (hate autotune) but been telling people since day one that Travis is innocent. But since I dont follow the narrative the cancel culture snowflakes have been attacking me on every board. Fuck em.
no one says hes guilty or going to jail. its called liability, but dey dont teach dat on dem dere street corners.
Yea and the same people liable might be the same who set the restrictions of occupancy, who by the way find a way to shut down any other event developed by anyone who comes from dem dere corners! Wierdo please!
Easy to say when you’re going home to your children. Entertainers are afraid that they’ll have to be accountable when you’re making them rich. Shut up while these people grieve during the holidays. When is enough enough
How do we not accept any accountability? Have stars come out and blame everyone and everything else. But if someone was arrested or beat up by a cop these same entertainers would be crying about the police state and over policing of a rap concerts. Either way it was gonna be the police or the police officers skin color that would of been the issue. F’kn Hollyweirdo’s.
This is gonna be hella embarrassing for Cedric if he also pressed to defund said police
If there was a security issue where there was 2K more people in a floor area than allowed then Cedric would be right. It’s possible if there was some miscommunication with security protocols weren’t followed allowing a crush to occur – obviously it wouldn’t be Travis’ fault in that scenario. However if that happened most likely that would have been the first story out instead it’s people begging and pleading officials to stop the show and nothing happening
It’s always the polices fault.. Lol.