A music festival in Vancouver turned into a riot late Sunday after organizers announced the night’s headliner wouldn’t be performing because of an illness.
Breakout Fest, a hip-hop music festival held at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) grounds over the weekend, announced rapper Lil Baby was “too sick” to take the stage at the PNE Amphitheatre around 9:30 p.m. — half an hour before the scheduled end of the show.
Videos from the scene after the announcement show people tearing down tents, throwing garbage cans and swarming the venue’s beer garden. Others flipped over refrigerators and snapped concession tables.
“Tonight … fans turned their disappointment into anger, doing significant damage