Online Public Relations Thoughts

No live concert producer wants the audience to get hurt.  It's a PR disaster if it happens.  But, this is the situation facing Live Nation and performer, Travis Scott.  An audience surge toward the stage where Scott was performing left eight people trampled to death and dozens of others injured and unconscious.  Scott was apparently unaware of it for 37 minutes into his set.  Now Scott and Live Nation are being sued and there is a good chance that should it not be settled out of court, a jury trial won't go well for either the performer or producer.  Should they have known that an audience surge could occur?  It has happened at other venues with predictable injury and death. There should have been a plan for it and rehearsals.  Scott is devastated but it is too late.  Live nation is humiliated.  It will take time to live this incident down and rebuild trust among concert-goers.