I think she bears responsibility for poor planning, and for the way she responded to the incident. But I disagree that her stopping the show to ensure crowds got water indicates a culpability in a death that occurred before they knew that water was needed. (I suspect that they did all they could once they realized the gravity of the situation.)
I remember, fifty-five years ago, The Rolling Stones were blasted for continuing their concert at Altamont after someone in the crowd had been murdered. Afterwards, an examination of the footage from the film being made of their tour showed that they couldn’t see the incident from the stage, and would have had no way to know what happened until later.
Even if they couldn’t see from the stage, I don’t know what The Rolling Stones expected when they hired Hell’s Angels to do security. Even The Grateful Dead noped right out of that one.
Worth noting that the grateful dead were one of the ones who recommended using them as security. They noped out bc the venue was becoming increasingly violent.
I do think there's culpability but it's also one of those cases where hindsight is 20/20... security just wasn't standard back then the way it was today and it was going to take bad things happening for change to happen. The govt didn't require pools to be behind locked gates until kids drowned kind of thing.
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u/MindForeverWandering May 03 '24
I think she bears responsibility for poor planning, and for the way she responded to the incident. But I disagree that her stopping the show to ensure crowds got water indicates a culpability in a death that occurred before they knew that water was needed. (I suspect that they did all they could once they realized the gravity of the situation.)
I remember, fifty-five years ago, The Rolling Stones were blasted for continuing their concert at Altamont after someone in the crowd had been murdered. Afterwards, an examination of the footage from the film being made of their tour showed that they couldn’t see the incident from the stage, and would have had no way to know what happened until later.