As the crowd surged and emergency responders battled to resuscitate unconscious people, festival organizers ignored the pleas of fans at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival to shut it down, several eyewitnesses told Insider. “I saw people; they were asking to stop it,” said Jennifer Hernandez, a 24-year-old college student who was among the 50,000 estimated crowd, during a phone call with Insider.

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