{"id":2444879,"date":"2019-06-02T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=843458"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:30:35","slug":"five-people-injured-during-stampede-at-roots-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/five-people-injured-during-stampede-at-roots-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Five People Injured During Stampede at Roots Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five people were injured in a stampede at Philadelphia\u2019s Roots Picnic<\/a> Saturday after a false gun scare caused concertgoers to flee Fairmount Park during 21 Savage\u2019s set.<\/p>\n

Four of the five people injured were underage, with one suffering a broken leg. \u201cIt was scary. Everybody just started running from one side of the area and they came trembling,\u201d Dewan Williams Clark, a witness, told CBS Philly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Billy Penn<\/a>, the chaos started after a fistfight broke out near the stage, with the panic sparking concern that there was an active shooter in the crowd. However, a Live Nation spokesperson told ABC 6 Philadelphia<\/a> that a \u201cmedical issue\u201d sparked the stampede.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting on the blanket and you just heard screams and then probably like 100 people, I was sitting down, and they just started running,\u201d witness Grace Taylor told ABC 6. \u201cWe were just all told to run straight and to the side and get out as quick as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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#RootsPicnic2019<\/a> #6abcAction<\/a> #philly<\/a> #21savage<\/a> @theroots<\/a> @rootspicnic<\/a> @MannCenter<\/a> @questlove<\/a> @fpbpodcast<\/a> #rootspicnic<\/a> @21savage<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/0a0K0GisUF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chauncey Brown (@chaunceybe_) June 2, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Police arrived soon after and remained on site and did not see a shooter or recover a weapon. Within an hour, Roots Picnic resumed, but hundreds of festivalgoers had already left Fairmount Park in the panic.<\/p>\n

Organizers and the Roots have not yet commented on the incident, although Questlove retweeted<\/a> someone who wrote \u201cThey were NOT shooting at Roots Picnic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roots Picnic is the latest festival this year to see its festivities briefly marred into panic following a false active shooter scare: Festivalgoers at Miami\u2019s Rolling Loud were injured<\/a> in May after a \u201ccommotion resulted in these fans running out of the venue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Five people were injured in a stampede at Philadelphia\u2019s Roots Picnic Saturday after a false gun scare caused concertgoers to flee Fairmount Park during 21 Savage\u2019s set. Four of the five people injured were underage, with one suffering a broken leg. \u201cIt was scary. Everybody just started running from one side of the area and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:20:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}