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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is present the spokesperson for rapper Travis Scott successful the aftermath of a deadly assemblage surge astatine the Astroworld Festival successful Houston.
Eight radical were killed astatine the event, including 2 teenagers, erstwhile the assemblage surged toward the stage. Bharti Shahani, a 22-year-old student, became the ninth idiosyncratic to dice successful the calamity connected Thursday.
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Rawlings-Blake was introduced to the 29-year-old rapper by a communal friend, according to a CNN report. According to her website, Rawlings-Blake present provides problem-solving, consulting and advocacy services nether the institution SRB & Associates.
She spoke to CNN Thursday successful the aftermath of Shahani’s death, and connected Friday she talked with Gayle King connected CBS Mornings.
“If her sanction and her look dependable familiar,” said King, “it’s due to the fact that she’s utilized to dealing with calamity and controversy, she’s the erstwhile politician of Baltimore and she’s present serving arsenic Travis Scott’s spokesperson.”
Rawlings-Blake, who served arsenic politician from February 2010 to December 2016, said she’s determination due to the fact that she knows the anxiousness of monolithic crowds. Authorities said astatine slightest 50,000 radical were contiguous astatine the concert.
“As you saw, determination was truthful overmuch chaos, truthful overmuch breakdown successful the communication, and that’s wherefore it was important for maine to enactment to effort to assistance them out,” she said. “Nine radical person mislaid their lives and 9 families are grieving and Gail, I’m a mom. My daughter’s gone to 1 of these large concerts and I tin archer you I spent 3 sleepless nighttime each time watching my phone, watching her determination due to the fact that erstwhile you person crowds of 50,000 people, thing tin happen.”
‘She’s utilized to dealing with calamity and controversy’ Former Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake talks to Gayle King connected CBS Mornings; she explains wherefore she became a spokesperson for Travis Scott successful the aftermath of 9 radical dying astatine his concert. @wjz pic.twitter.com/gxFm9Zaraw
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Rawlings-Blake said the blasted doesn’t prevarication connected Scott for the deaths, but that helium wants to beryllium a portion of the solution.
“This conception that Travis had the quality to halt the performance is ludicrous,” she said. “They person a 59-page operations plan, and it intelligibly says the lone 2 radical that person the authorization to halt the performance were the enforcement shaper and the performance producer. He was not liable for this, but helium wants to beryllium liable for the solution, and I’m present to marque definite that we tin link the dots.”
Taking implicit Baltimore successful 2010 aft Sheila Dixon near bureau successful scandal, Rawlings-Blake drew praise for a creaseless transition, her handling of Snowmageddon and occurrence and constabulary pension crises.
In her past fewer months arsenic politician successful 2016, Rawlings-Blake faced disapproval for her effect to the riots aft Freddie Gray’s decease and a skyrocketing execution rate.
Rawlings-Blake said Scott has reached retired to the families of each unfortunate and that she has reached retired to Shahani’s family.
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