The lead singer of a rock band recently paused his concert to go on a political rant. Dave Matthews, the lead singer of the Dave Matthews Band, paused his concert to call out Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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He called them "a--holes."
"I don't know why we let people make excuses for why we should kill each other, you know?" Matthews said. "There's always reasons that we should kill each other. They tell our children and use their words when they — when they grow up. I wonder what's wrong with us. I don't know why we lost our way. So it feels — but maybe we've always been like this, we just got better at making things that can kill each other."
The lead singer continued calling out the group.
"Anyway, I wanted to say his name. I wrote it down so I didn't forget it, this young man who was — well, old man, but we're all young — this father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. And then they say he's not even the guy — he's not even the guy they were looking for. Well, then don't pull the trigger, you a-holes."
Lead Singer Gets Political
Matthews then brought up Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He was an illegal immigrant killed in Houston after allegedly trying to ram ICE agents. Agents reportedly shot and killed him when he "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense."
"So I just wanted to say, I'm sorry if that language offends his family or his friends or his community, but it's just making me mad anyway, so I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed a few days ago in Houston by ICE," the lead singer said of the immigrant.
He then went on to say.
"I don't want my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart. We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other - we should be housing the homeless - we shouldn't be, you know, throwing people to the ground," he said.
